Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration

The oceans are by far the largest carbon sink and are estimated to have absorbed roughly 40 percent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions since the beginning of the industrial era. The climate services performed by the oceans can be described as an interaction between a physical and a biological...

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Autores: Krabbe, Niels, Langlet, David, Belgrano, Andrea, Villasante Larramendi, Carlos Sebastián
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Maximum climate mitigation
Marine management
Climate change
Carbon sequestration
Blue carbon
Law of the sea
Fisheries management
Fisheries law
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spelling Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon SequestrationKrabbe, NielsLanglet, DavidBelgrano, AndreaVillasante Larramendi, Carlos SebastiánMaximum climate mitigationMarine managementClimate changeCarbon sequestrationBlue carbonLaw of the seaFisheries managementFisheries lawThe oceans are by far the largest carbon sink and are estimated to have absorbed roughly 40 percent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions since the beginning of the industrial era. The climate services performed by the oceans can be described as an interaction between a physical and a biological carbon pump. Whereas the role of the physical carbon pump is well established, the full scale of the climate services provided by the biological carbon pump has only recently been understood. This pump is made up of services provided by different marine species, from microbes to marine mammals. Many of these species are managed under the international law of the sea and subject to the concept of Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY). Although the MSY concept has developed since its inception, maximum generation of fish for human consumption remains the core objective according to the law of the sea. Under MSY based management, states are not required to consider the climate services represented by different marine organisms, making this regime unable to balance the interest of maximizing fish as a product against the oceans’ role in carbon sequestration. In order to make optimal use of the carbon sequestering features of marine organisms, this perspective proposes five action points. Foremost, MSY should be complemented with a new management objective: maximum carbon sequestration (MCS). Although many aspects of climate-based fisheries management remain to be explored, it appears clear that this would imply allowing stocks to recover to maintain a larger amount of biomass, increasing conservation measures for species particularly efficient in providing negative emissions, differentiation of fisheries within species as well as a new approach to ecosystem management. Climate reforming international fisheries law could make an important contribution to the operationalization of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As a first step, international guidelines should be developed on how to integrate the concept of maximum carbon sequestration in fisheries management.Frontiers MediaUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Fundamentos da Análise Económica20222022-01-0120222022-01-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/42496reponame:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostelainstname:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)InglésengEuropean Commission http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 Horizon 2020 Framework Programme 101002784open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2© 2022 Krabbe, Langlet, Belgrano and Villasante. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/424962026-06-15T12:47:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
title Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
spellingShingle Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
Krabbe, Niels
Maximum climate mitigation
Marine management
Climate change
Carbon sequestration
Blue carbon
Law of the sea
Fisheries management
Fisheries law
title_short Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
title_full Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
title_fullStr Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
title_full_unstemmed Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
title_sort Reforming International Fisheries Law Can Increase Blue Carbon Sequestration
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Krabbe, Niels
Langlet, David
Belgrano, Andrea
Villasante Larramendi, Carlos Sebastián
author Krabbe, Niels
author_facet Krabbe, Niels
Langlet, David
Belgrano, Andrea
Villasante Larramendi, Carlos Sebastián
author_role author
author2 Langlet, David
Belgrano, Andrea
Villasante Larramendi, Carlos Sebastián
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Fundamentos da Análise Económica
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Maximum climate mitigation
Marine management
Climate change
Carbon sequestration
Blue carbon
Law of the sea
Fisheries management
Fisheries law
topic Maximum climate mitigation
Marine management
Climate change
Carbon sequestration
Blue carbon
Law of the sea
Fisheries management
Fisheries law
description The oceans are by far the largest carbon sink and are estimated to have absorbed roughly 40 percent of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions since the beginning of the industrial era. The climate services performed by the oceans can be described as an interaction between a physical and a biological carbon pump. Whereas the role of the physical carbon pump is well established, the full scale of the climate services provided by the biological carbon pump has only recently been understood. This pump is made up of services provided by different marine species, from microbes to marine mammals. Many of these species are managed under the international law of the sea and subject to the concept of Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY). Although the MSY concept has developed since its inception, maximum generation of fish for human consumption remains the core objective according to the law of the sea. Under MSY based management, states are not required to consider the climate services represented by different marine organisms, making this regime unable to balance the interest of maximizing fish as a product against the oceans’ role in carbon sequestration. In order to make optimal use of the carbon sequestering features of marine organisms, this perspective proposes five action points. Foremost, MSY should be complemented with a new management objective: maximum carbon sequestration (MCS). Although many aspects of climate-based fisheries management remain to be explored, it appears clear that this would imply allowing stocks to recover to maintain a larger amount of biomass, increasing conservation measures for species particularly efficient in providing negative emissions, differentiation of fisheries within species as well as a new approach to ecosystem management. Climate reforming international fisheries law could make an important contribution to the operationalization of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, as well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals. As a first step, international guidelines should be developed on how to integrate the concept of maximum carbon sequestration in fisheries management.
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