Publications

Publications from Members

Fish Stocks Agreement Review Conference
The following papers were submitted to the UN Fish Stocks Agreement Review Conference by NRDC, Greenpeace, Conservation International, National Environment Trust and MCBI, May 2006:

• The UN Fish Stocks Agreement and high seas bottom trawling; pdf; 2 pages; 80KB
  
• Elements for assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of the Agreement; pdf; 7 pages; 84KB

Defying Oceans End

• Defying Oceans End, An Agenda for Action, edited by Linda K. Glover and Sylvia A. Earle.
  Inspired by an urgent need to address the sharp decline in ocean wildlife, the disturbing increase in ocean pollution and the neglect of policies and resources to solve these problems, a team of international ocean scientists, economists, lawyers and representatives from governments, corporations and the media gathered in Los Cabos, Mexico in May/June 2003 to build a global action plan for ocean conservation. This book is the result. It can be ordered from Island Press.

Greenpeace

• High Seas Bottom Trawl Fisheries and their Impacts on the Biodiversity of Vulnerable Deep-Sea Ecosystems. Matthew Gianni, June 2004.
• The case for a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling - quotes from key people within the EU, Greenpeace (pdf)
  
• Murky Waters: hauling in the net on Europe's high seas bottom trawling fleet, March 2006 (pdf)
  
• EU Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported Fishing, Greenpeace briefings, December 2005
  The Story of the Kerguelen
  Cold Robbery: Spanish vessels stealing fish in the Barents Sea
  Dragging the life out of the deep sea: Pirate high seas bottom trawlers are destroying deep-sea life
• NAFO Case Study, 8 June 2005, pdf, 597KB
  This Report focuses on one of the most well established and developed RFMOs in the world: the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO). With its origins in a regional commission that was established in 1949, it has been in existence since 1979 with the mandate "to contribute through consultation and co-operation to the optimum utilization, rational management and conservation of the fishery resources" of the Convention area. Yet despite this, its adoption of a wide range of conservation and management measures, and a well developed institutional structure, NAFO has been unable to achieve its mandate and as of 2005, 10 stocks under NAFO's competence are currently under moratoria.
• Save Our Seas: Documents and Reports
  
• Protecting the Deep Sea Under International Law: Legal Options for Addressing High Seas Bottom Trawling
  Executive Summary; pdf; 7 pages; 107 KB / Full report; pdf; 54 pages; 296 KB

Living Oceans Society

• Protecting British Columbia's Corals and Sponges (2005) Jeff Ardron, Living Ocean's Society; pdf; 22 pages; 768 KB

Marine Conservation Institute

• Status of Deep Sea Corals in US Waters, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, 8 June 2006
  Download full report, 68 pages 18MB (pdf)
  Executive summary, 3 pages; 2MB (pdf)
• Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity, edited by MCBI President Elliott Norse and Larry Crowder, Director of Duke University's Center for Marine Conservation.
  Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues. Contributors offer penetrating insights on the nature of marine biodiversity, what threatens it, and what humans can and must do to recover the biological integrity of the world's estuaries, coastal seas, and oceans.
• Medicines From the Deep: The Importance of Protecting the High Seas from Bottom Trawling, March 2005. Medical research suggests that novel compounds from the deep sea hold tremendous promise for treating human disease, highlighting the need to protect the fragile deep ocean bottom from destructive fishing practices like bottom trawling. Report produced by MCBI, in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Principal author: Sara Maxwell.
• Occurrences of Habitat-forming Deep Sea Corals in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
• Shifting Gears: Addressing the Collateral Impacts of Fishing Methods in U.S. Waters
  A scientific study that methodologically compares fishing methods and concludes that bottom trawling is the most harmful to the marine environment.

Oceana

• European Trawlers are Destroying the Oceans, pdf; 77 pages; 836KB English / Spanish
• Frontiers In Ecology: Deep-Sea Corals: Out Of Sight, But No Longer Out Of Mind
• Deep-Sea Corals: Report