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CCAMLR: To Be or Not To Be an RFMO?

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This chapter will be focused on the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) development and its functioning related to the role of epistemic communities. CCAMLR was created under the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS), which itself possesses different characteristics from other RFMOs. Therefore, CCAMLR will be evaluated as part of ATS and as an independent agreement, with its provisions and norms. The main focus will be how science and the epistemic communities are influencing policies and politics, and if with that comes more effectiveness.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Due to the ATS, many NGOs use the expression to protect the Southern Ocean: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/oceans/our-oceans-and-seas/southern-ocean/; http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/places/southern-ocean; https://www.bas.ac.uk/about/antarctica/the-antarctic-treaty/the-antarctic-treaty-explained/.

  2. 2.

    From ATS website membership update list—http://www.ats.aq/devAS/ats_parties.aspx?lang=e (Accessed in June 2015).

  3. 3.

    Finfish is a real fish, such as bony fish or a cartilaginous fish, especially in contrast to a shellfish or other aquatic animal.

  4. 4.

    A bottom trawl is constructed like a cone-shaped net towed/dragged (by one or two boats) on the bottom. It consists of a body ending in a codend, which retains the catch.

  5. 5.

    https://www.ccamlr.org/en/measure-21-01-2010.

  6. 6.

    https://www.ccamlr.org/en/measure-21-02-2013.

  7. 7.

    https://www.ccamlr.org/en/measure-21-03-2014.

  8. 8.

    SSB—Spawning stock biomass. Total weight of all sexually mature fish in the stock.

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Gonçalves, L.R. (2021). CCAMLR: To Be or Not To Be an RFMO?. In: Regional Fisheries Management Organizations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70362-2_2

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