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Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries by Jan Kooiman, Svein Jentoft, Roger Pullin, Maarten Bavinck

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By Jan Kooiman, Svein Jentoft, Roger Pullin, Maarten Bavinck

1000000000 humans all over the world depend on fish as their primary—and in lots of circumstances, their only—source of protein. while, expanding call for from wealthier populations within the U.S. and Europe encourages harmful overfishing practices alongside coastal waters. Fish for all times addresses the matter of overfishing at neighborhood, nationwide, and international degrees as a part of a accomplished governance approach—one that recognizes the serious intersection of nutrition defense, environmental safety, and foreign legislation in fishing practices through the international.

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UN 2001b). Emphasising the key role of women in intra-household food security, Gillespie and Haddad (2001) encourage an expanded concept of food security across agricultural and nutritional development efforts and a strengthening of the human rights paradigm in the field of human nutrition. Indeed, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25) and subsequent international agreements emphasise people’s basic right to adequate food (see chap. 13). In a recent publication, Kurien (2004) argues that food security has three dimensions, or A’s: accessibility, affordability, and absorption.

A governance approach is seen as conducive to efforts to address these concerns and is thus a prerequisite for positive outcomes in terms of healthy ecosystems, better justice, improved livelihoods, and better food security and safety. Fisheries governance has not kept pace, however, with the deep and rapid changes in fisheries, resulting globally in a complex ecological, social, and economic crisis. As the demand for fish products grows world-wide 36 Challenges and Concerns in Capture Fisheries and Aquaculture and the productive capacity of the world’s aquatic ecosystems decreases, governance responses should also be global.

More recently, the recognition that fisheries resources interact and that the strength of that interaction may, in fact, be more profound than the impact of extraction has changed the analytical entry point to the ecosystem. Equally, recognition has increased concerning the notion that perhaps the consumer is not at the end of the chain, but rather at the beginning; with growing consumer demand for high-quality, safe, and sustainably-captured fish causing a fundamental restructuring in the way that aquatic resources are being cultivated (in the case of aquaculture), extracted, and processed.

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