Publications

Other Publications

The impact of deep-sea fisheries and implementation of the UNGA Resolutions 61/105 and 64/72 - Report of an international scientific workshop

Deep Sea Biodiversity, Michael Rex & Ron Etter, 2010.

Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2004, edited by Clive Wilkinson, December 2004.

Report of the Advisory Panel on the Sustainable Management of Straddling Fish Stocks in the Northwest Atlantic, September 2005.

The Status of Natural Resources on the High Seas. The Southampton Oceanography Centre & Dr. A. Charlotte de Fontaubert, 2001.

ICES

• Report of the ICES Advisory Committee on Ecosystems, 2002.  ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 254. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, December 2002; pdf; 138 pages. See in particular 4.3, page 32 (pdf page 41).
• Report of the Study Group on Mapping the Occurrence of Cold Water Corals. Advisory Committee on Ecosystems, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. ICES CM 2002/ACE:05 Ref: E, WGECO May 2002; pdf; 21 pages.
  
• Cold Water Corals Session of ICES-2004 Vigo-Spain. 7 interlinked pdf docs packed in a .zip file about 3Mb
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The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

• Volume 19, Issue 3, August 2004 A special issue of Marine Law Journal on Deep Sea Fisheries focusing on high seas fisheries conservation and governance co-edited by Kristina Gjerde, high seas policy advisor to IUCN (the World Conservation Union) and series editor David Freestone.

Marine Ecology Progress Series

• Seamount benthic macrofauna off southern Tasmania: community structure and impacts of trawling, by J. A. Koslow, K. Gowlett-Holmes, J. K. Lowry, T. O'Hara, G. C. B. Poore, A. Williams.

The UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

• Turning the Tide, Addressing the Impact of Fisheries on the Marine Environment, December 2004.
• RCEP Recommendations, pdf. See 11:40-11:42 for the recommendations on bottom trawling.

UN Task Force on Environmental Sustainability of the Millennium Project

• Chapters 4-6 of the Report of the Task Force on Environmental Sustainability of the Millennium Project (Jeffrey Sachs). See Element 4 of Chapter 4 for provisions on bottom trawling. Related DSCC News, April 2005.

UNEP

• Deep-sea Sponge Grounds: Reservoirs of Biodiversity. United Nations Environment Program, August 2010
• Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Deep Waters and High Seas, UNEP REgional Seas Report and Studies No. 178; 60 pages (pdf)
• Cold-water Coral Reefs: Out of Sight, No longer out of mind

WWF

• Follow the Leader: Learning from experience and best practice in regional fisheries management organizations, WWF/TRAFFIC (pdf)
• Bycatch on the High Seas: A Review of the Effectiveness of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, September 2005. Executive summary (pdf), Full report (pdf)
• Shining a spotlight on the biodivsersity of New Zealand's marine ecoregion. An independent scientific assessment produced by 22 marine scientists, the report shows that 50% of New Zealand's marine environment is critical for biodiversity. WWF press release on report launch, 19 February, 2005.
• Endangered Seas Programme Publications
• Cold-Water Corals - Fragile Havens In The Deep
• Seamounts of the North-East Atlantic Nov 2003.
• The Offshore directory Review of a selection of habitats, communities and species of the north-east Atlantic, October 2002.
• Ecosystem-based management of marine capture fisheries June 2002.
• The status of natural resources on the high-seas May 2001.