Marine Policy

Article	Citations
Blue growth and blue justice: Ten risks and solutions for the ocean economy	175
A review of global oyster aquaculture production and consumption	134
Policies to reduce single-use plastic marine pollution in West Africa	128
Oil spill in South Atlantic (Brazil): Environmental and governmental disaster	119
Building trust and equity in marine conservation and fisheries supply chain management with blockchain	99
The key challenges and critical success factors of blockchain implementation: Policy implications for Singapore’s maritime industry	81
Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining	71
Climate change increases the risk of fisheries conflict	69
COVID-19 impacts and adaptations in Asia and Africa’s aquatic food value chains	68
How do environmental regulation and technological innovation affect the sustainable development of marine economy: New evidence from China’s coastal provinces and cities	64
Considering Indigenous Peoples and local communities in governance of the global ocean commons	63
Ecological security evaluation of marine ranching with AHP-entropy-based TOPSIS: A case study of Yantai, China	58
Assessment of the economic performance of the seabream and seabass aquaculture industry in the European Union	57
Estimating the effect of COVID-19 epidemic on shipping trade: An empirical analysis using panel data	57
Nonlinear effects of marine economic growth and technological innovation on marine pollution: Panel threshold analysis for China's 11 coastal regions	57
Potential effects of deep seabed mining on pelagic and benthopelagic biota	57
Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction	54
Life in a drop: Sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring	52
Do political promotion incentive and fiscal incentive of local governments matter for the marine environmental pollution? Evidence from China’s coastal areas	48
Recent ship traffic and developing shipping trends on the Northern Sea Route—Policy implications for future arctic shipping	47
The opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistical, geopolitical, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts	46
Does corporate social responsibility (CSR) impact on development of women in small-scale fisheries of sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from coastal communities of Niger Delta in Nigeria	46
Major challenges in developing marine spatial planning	46
Assessing impacts of COVID-19 on aquatic food system and small-scale fisheries in Bangladesh	46
Valuable but vulnerable: Over-fishing and under-management continue to threaten groupers so what now?	45

Financial development, productivity, and high-quality development of the marine economy	44
Tourism in marine protected areas: Can it be considered as an alternative livelihood for local communities?	43
Two decades of progress in Marine Spatial Planning	43
Environmental Impact Assessments for deep-sea mining: Can we improve their future effectiveness?	41
The effectiveness of the New Inspection Regime for Port State Control: Application of the Tokyo MoU	40
Traditional knowledge and the BBNJ instrument	40
COVID-19 provides an opportunity to advance a sustainable UK fisheries policy in a post-Brexit brave new world	40
An evaluation of Regional Fisheries Management Organization at-sea compliance monitoring and observer programs	39
Marine spatial planning in areas beyond national jurisdiction	39
From Blue Economy to Blue Communities: reorienting aquaculture expansion for community wellbeing	39
A blue carbon ecosystems qualitative assessment applying the DPSIR framework: Local perspective of global benefits and contributions	39
Financial inclusion to build economic resilience in small-scale fisheries	39
Environmental considerations for impact and preservation reference zones for deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining	39
Stuck in the middle with you (and not much time left): The third intergovernmental conference on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction	39
Monitoring and managing fisheries discards: New technologies and approaches	39
Evolution of mariculture policies in China: Experience and challenge	39
Maritime transport in the French economy and its impact on air pollution: An input-output analysis	39
COVID-19 restrictions amidst cyclones and volcanoes: A rapid assessment of early impacts on livelihoods and food security in coastal communities in Vanuatu	38
An emergency responding mechanism for cruise epidemic prevention—taking COVID-19 as an example	38
An evolutionary game model analysis on emission control areas in China	38
Visualizing the social in aquaculture: How social dimension components illustrate the effects of aquaculture across geographic scales	37
Challenges and misperceptions around global fishing gear loss estimates	37
Carbon emission and economic output of China’s marine fishery – A decoupling efforts analysis	37
Evolution of China's marine ranching policy based on the perspective of policy tools	37
The global costs and benefits of expanding Marine Protected Areas	37
Key factors of container port competitiveness: A global shipping lines perspective	36
COVID-19 border closures cause humanitarian crew change crisis at sea	36
Carbon Emission Trading Scheme in the shipping sector: Drivers, challenges, and impacts	35
Exploring gender inclusion in small-scale fisheries management and development in Melanesia	34
Implementation of blue carbon offset crediting for seagrass meadows, macroalgal beds, and macroalgae farming in Japan	33
Impacts of COVID-19 on the finfish aquaculture industry of Bangladesh: A case study	33
The policy relevance of Southern Ocean food web structure: Implications of food web change for fisheries, conservation and carbon sequestration	33
The ability of fish ecolabels to promote a change in the sustainability awareness	32
Survival of the Richest, not the Fittest: How attempts to improve governance impact African small-scale marine fisheries	32
Evolutionary policy of trading of blue carbon produced by marine ranching with media participation and government supervision	32
The oyster fishery in China: Trend, concerns and solutions	32
A case for seaweed aquaculture inclusion in U.S. nutrient pollution management	32
Blue crime: Conceptualising transnational organised crime at sea	32
Change of sea reclamation and the sea-use management policy system in China	31
Increasing Ghanaian fish farms’ productivity: Does the use of the internet matter?	31
Can environmental regulation promote urban innovation in the underdeveloped coastal regions of western China?	31
Private governance of human and labor rights in seafood supply chains – The case of the modern slavery crisis in Thailand	31
How do carbon trading platform participation and government subsidy motivate blue carbon trading of marine ranching? A study based on evolutionary equilibrium strategy method	31
Plastic Bags Prohibition Bill: A developing story of crass legalism aiming to reduce plastic marine pollution in Nigeria	31
More than fish: Policy coherence and benefit sharing as necessary conditions for equitable aquaculture development	31
Feasibility of the Northern Sea Route for oil shipping from the economic and environmental perspective and its influence on China's oil imports	31
Assessing plume impacts caused by polymetallic nodule mining vehicles	30
Getting to 2030 - Scaling effort to ambition through a narrative model of the SDGs	30
Ocean science, data, and services for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals	30
The marine economy of the United Kingdom	30

Using citizen science to evaluate extended producer responsibility policy to reduce marine plastic debris shows no reduction in pollution levels	30
Impact of novel coronavirus pandemic on aquaculture and fisheries in developing countries and sustainable recovery plans: Case of Bangladesh	29
Research on the ecologicalization efficiency of mariculture industry in China and its influencing factors	29
Seaweeds farming for sustainable development goals and blue economy in Bangladesh	29
Rights of Nature: Perspectives for Global Ocean Stewardship	29
China's marine protected area system: Evolution, challenges, and new prospects	29
Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation	29
The usual suspects? Distribution of collaboration capital in marine biodiversity research	28
The model of early warning for China's marine ecology-economy symbiosis security	28
Measuring achievements towards SDG 14, life below water, in the United Arab Emirates	28
Current and future socio-ecological vulnerability and adaptation of artisanal fisheries communities in Peru, the case of the Huaura province	28
Quantifying the fuel consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution of a potential commercial manganese nodule mining operation	28
Defining active, inactive, and extinct seafloor massive sulfide deposits	28
Developing sustainable small-scale fisheries livelihoods in Indonesia: Trends, enabling and constraining factors, and future opportunities	28
Synergistic analysis of the resilience and efficiency of China’s marine economy and the role of resilience policy	27
Community participation in assessment of fisheries related ecosystem services towards the establishment of marine protected area in the Greater Cape Three Points area in Ghana	27
Food security of mariculture in China: Evolution, future potential and policy	27
Influence of marine industrial agglomeration and environmental regulation on marine innovation efficiency—From an innovation value chain perspective	27
Maritime transport and economic growth: Interconnection and influence (an example of the countriesin the Caspian sea coast; Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran)	27
Small-scale fisheries development in Africa: Lessons learned and best practices for enhancing food security and livelihoods	27
Input versus output controls as instruments for fisheries management with a focus on Mediterranean fisheries	27
Transforming traditional management into contemporary territorial-based fisheries management rights for small-scale fisheries in Indonesia	27
Policy outlook: Recent evolutions of maritime spatial planning in the European Union	26
The blue economy as a boundary object for hegemony across scales	26
Strategic Environmental Goals and Objectives: Setting the basis for environmental regulation of deep seabed mining	26
The Ross Sea, Antarctica: A highly protected MPA in international waters	26
Planning marine protected areas under the CCAMLR regime – The case of the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)	26
COVID-19 impacts on coastal communities in Kenya	26
Combining offshore wind farms, nature conservation and seafood: Lessons from a Dutch community of practice	26
Public acceptance of a large-scale offshore wind power project in South Korea	26
Does digital technology promote the sustainable development of the marine equipment manufacturing industry in China?	26
Port competitiveness: Do container terminal operators and liner shipping companies see eye to eye?	25
Crafting a sustainability transition experiment for the brazilian blue economy	25
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on seafarers’ mental health and chronic fatigue: Beneficial effects of onboard peer support, external support and Internet access	25
The label “Cação” is a shark or a ray and can be a threatened species! Elasmobranch trade in Southern Brazil unveiled by DNA barcoding	25
Beyond static spatial management: Scientific and legal considerations for dynamic management in the high seas	25
Towards sustainable small-scale fisheries in China: A case study of Hainan	25
Implementing marine functional zoning in China	25
A bibliometric assessment of progress in marine spatial planning	25
Analysis and discussion of 28 recent marine protected area governance (MPAG) case studies: Challenges of decentralisation in the shadow of hierarchy	24
Mapping and analysis of maritime accidents in the Russian Arctic through the lens of the Polar Code and POLARIS system	24
Institutional arrangements for the new BBNJ agreement: Moving beyond global, regional, and hybrid	24
Impact of working capital management on profitability for Spanish fish canning companies	24
A critical review of marine mammal governance and protection in Indonesia	24
Strategies, actions, and policies by Taiwan’s ENGOs, media, and government to reduce plastic use and marine plastic pollution	23
Marine conservation beyond MPAs: Towards the recognition of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) in Indonesia	23
Spatio-temporal evolutionary characteristics of carbon emissions and carbon sinks of marine industry in China and their time-dependent models	23
Sexual harassment and women seafarers: The role of laws and policies to ensure occupational safety & health	23
Mining mineral resources from the seabed: Opportunities and challenges	23
Risk assessment for deep sea mining: An overview of risk	23
The ocean, climate change and resilience: Making ocean areas beyond national jurisdiction more resilient to climate change and other anthropogenic activities	23
Blue bonds for marine conservation and a sustainable ocean economy: Status, trends, and insights from green bonds	23
Gender and Blue Justice in small-scale fisheries governance	23
Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis	22
The performance of marine spatial planning in coordinating offshore wind energy with other sea-uses: The case of the Dutch North Sea	22
Implementation of the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index: An important but costly step towards ocean protection	22
How blue financing can sustain ocean conservation and development: A proposed conceptual framework for blue financing mechanism	22
Has environmental regulation facilitated the green transformation of the marine industry?	22
Estimating the damage cost of plastic waste in Galapagos Islands: A contingent valuation approach	22
Environmental (in)justice in the Anthropocene ocean	22
Organizational perspectives on sustainable ocean governance: A multi-stakeholder, meta-organization model of collective action	22
The Marine Plan Partnership: Indigenous community-based marine spatial planning	22
Operationalisation of ecosystem services in support of ecosystem-based marine spatial planning: insights into needs and recommendations	22
Environmental response to growth in the marine economy and urbanization: A heterogeneity analysis of 11 Chinese coastal regions using a panel vector autoregressive model	22
Sleuthing with sound: Understanding vessel activity in marine protected areas using passive acoustic monitoring	22
Research on cooperation mechanism of marine plastic waste management based on complex network evolutionary game	22
Monitoring coastal reclamation changes across Jiangsu Province during 1984–2019 using landsat data	22
Coral reef restoration in Indonesia: A review of policies and projects	22
Promoting pro-environmental behavior through citizen science? A case study with Chilean schoolchildren on marine plastic pollution	22
Sunscreen use and awareness of chemical toxicity among beach goers in Hawaii prior to a ban on the sale of sunscreens containing ingredients found to be toxic to coral reef ecosystems	22
Local practices and production confer resilience to rural Pacific food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
Changing the narrative on fisheries subsidies reform: Enabling transitions to achieve SDG 14.6 and beyond	21
Small-scale fisheries management and the problem of open access	21
The voice of Mexican small-scale fishers in times of COVID-19: Impacts, responses, and digital divide	21
Ship's compliance with a traffic separation scheme and speed limit in the Gulf of Panama and implications for the risk to humpback whales	21
Aquaculture policy: Designing licenses for environmental regulation	21
Critical gaps in the protection of the second largest exclusive economic zone in the world	21
Coastal tourism, market segmentation and contested landscapes	21
The evolution of the port network along the Maritime Silk Road: From a sustainable development perspective	21
Stakeholder-defined scientific needs for coastal resilience decisions in the Northeast U.S.	21

Indicating sustainable salmon farming: The case of the new Norwegian aquaculture management scheme	21
Factors influencing catch and support for the implementation of the closed fishing season in Davao Gulf, Philippines	21
A better understanding of social-ecological systems is needed for adapting fisheries to climate change	20
Adjustment trend of China’s marine fishery policy since 2011	20
Social-ecological vulnerability to climate change in small-scale fisheries managed under spatial property rights systems	20
Ship first: Seafarers’ adjustment of records on work and rest hours	20
Hot fish: The response to climate change by regional fisheries bodies	20
Increased maritime traffic in the Arctic: Implications for governance of Arctic sea routes	20
Enhanced monitoring of life in the sea is a critical component of conservation management and sustainable economic growth	20
CARICOM and the blue economy – Multiple understandings and their implications for global engagement	20
Has the consumers awareness of sustainable seafood been growing in Japan? Implications for promoting sustainable consumerism at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics	20
The evolution of China's marine economic policy and the labor productivity growth momentum of marine economy and its three economic industries	20
Knowledge, practice, and economic impacts of COVID-19 on small-scale coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh: Policy recommendations for improved livelihoods	20
Characterising the vulnerability of fishing households to climate and environmental change: Insights from Ghana	20
The complex relationships between marine protected areas and marine spatial planning: Towards an analytical framework	20
The development of a policy framework to mitigate underwater noise pollution from commercial vessels: The role of ports	20
Impact of sci-tech finance on the innovation efficiency of China's marine industry	20
Monitoring the COVID-19-affected Indonesian seaweed industry using remote sensing data	19
Epistemic justice and the integration of local ecological knowledge for marine conservation: Lessons from the Seychelles	19
Adapting our sea ports to the challenges of climate change: Development and validation of a Port Resilience Index	19
A social network analysis of the Philippine seaweed farming industry: Unravelling the web	19
Shipyard site selection by raster calculation method and AHP in GIS environment, İskenderun, Turkey	19
Evolution of the coupling coordination between the marine economy and urban resilience of major coastal cities in China	19
Maritime dependency and economic prosperity: Why access to oceanic trade matters	19
Social-ecological shifts, traps and collapses in small-scale fisheries: Envisioning a way forward to transformative changes	19
Has China's Free Trade Zone policy expedited port production and development?	19
Marine reserve more sustainable than gear restriction in maintaining long-term coral reef fisheries yields	19
Vessel monitoring systems as a tool for mapping fishing effort for a small inshore fishery operating within a marine protected area	19
The Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement as an element in the evolving Arctic Ocean governance complex	19
Navigating risks and uncertainties: Risk perceptions and risk management strategies in the Philippine seaweed industry	19
Assessing the potential areas for developing offshore wind energy in Japanese territorial waters considering national zoning and possible social conflicts	19
A comparison of environmental and economic sustainability across seafood and livestock product value chains	18
Who's who in the value chain for the Mexican octopus fishery: Mapping the production chain	18
Exploring diversity and engagement of divers in citizen science: Insights for marine management and conservation	18
Potential spatial intersection between high-seas fisheries and deep-sea mining in international waters	18
Potential spatial effects of opening Arctic shipping routes on the shipping network of ports between China and Europe	18
Governing the welfare of Norwegian farmed salmon: Three conflict cases	18
Alternative seafood marketing systems foster transformative processes in Mediterranean fisheries	18
Resilience of small-scale marine fishers of Bangladesh against the COVID-19 pandemic and the 65-day fishing ban	18
Citizen participation in monitoring phytoplankton seawater discolorations	18
Valuing marine ecosystem service damage caused by land reclamation: Insights from a deliberative choice experiment in Jiaozhou Bay	18
The functional territorialization of the high seas	18
A study on transnational regulatory governance for marine plastic debris: Trends, challenges, and prospect	18
Beach-user perceptions and attitudes towards drone surveillance as a shark-bite mitigation tool	18
Towards territorial development in fisheries areas: A typology of projects funded by Fisheries Local Action Groups	18
Application of scientific criteria for identifying hydrothermal ecosystems in need of protection	18
Human dimensions of marine protected areas and small-scale fisheries management: A review of the interpretations	18
Capacity building and technology transfer for improving governance of marine areas both beyond and within national jurisdiction	18
Vulnerability and costs of adaptation strategies for housing subjected to flood risks: Application to La Guérinière France	18
Observations of vulnerable marine ecosystems and significant adverse impacts on high seas seamounts of the northwestern Hawaiian Ridge and Emperor Seamount Chain	18
Environmental policy and innovation in Norwegian fish farming: Resolving the sea lice problem?	18
A global review of elasmobranch tourism activities, management and risk	18
Strengthening the International Seabed Authority's knowledge-base: Addressing uncertainties to enhance decision-making	17
IMO off course for decarbonisation of shipping? Three challenges for stricter policy	17
Flags for sale: An empirical assessment of flag of convenience desirability to foreign vessels	17
China’s 21st century maritime silk road: Challenges and opportunities to coastal livelihoods in ASEAN countries	17
Effects of marine ranching policies on the ecological efficiency of marine ranching—Based on 25 marine ranching in Shandong Province	17
Shark and ray trade in and out of Indonesia: Addressing knowledge gaps on the path to sustainability	17
On the use of deep learning for fish species recognition and quantification on board fishing vessels	17
Becoming certified, becoming sustainable? Improvements from aquaculture certification schemes as experienced by those certified	17
Cultural heritage and environmental ethical values in governance models: Conflicts between recreational fisheries and other maritime activities in Mediterranean marine protected areas	17
Diving tourism in Mexico – Economic and conservation importance	17
Engagement of stakeholders in the marine/maritime spatial planning process	17
Institutional nuts and bolts for a mesopelagic fishery in Norway	17
Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing impacts: A systematic review of evidence and proposed future agenda	17
Critical factor identification of marine ranching ecological security with hierarchical DEMATEL	17
Potential for conflicts in recreational and artisanal billfish fisheries on the coast of Kenya	17
Consumer seafood preferences related to alternative food networks and their value chains	17
Innovative financing mechanism for blue economy projects	17
Deep-sea mining legislation in Pacific Island countries: From the perspective of public participation in approval procedures	17
Transboundary marine spatial planning across Europe: Trends and priorities in nearly two decades of project work	17
Understanding and evidencing a broader range of ‘successes’ that can occur at the interface of marine science and policy	17
Exploring the relationship among marine science and technology innovation, marine finance, and marine higher education using a coupling analysis: A case study of China's coastal areas	17
Evaluation of China's marine economic growth quality based on set pair analysis	17
Sharing victories: Characteristics of collaborative strategies of environmental non-governmental organizations in Canadian marine conservation	16
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on aquatic environment and fishing community: Boon or bane?	16
Understanding the public attitude towards sharks for improving their conservation	16
Determinants of capital structure in the Norwegian salmon aquaculture industry	16
Perception of threats and related management measures: The case of 32 marine protected areas in West Africa	16
Using western science and Inuit knowledge to model ship-source noise exposure for cetaceans (marine mammals) in Tallurutiup Imanga (Lancaster Sound), Nunavut, Canada	16
Regulating the Blue Economy? Challenges to an effective Canadian aquaculture act	16
A tiered approach to the marine genetic resource governance framework under the proposed UNCLOS agreement for biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ)	16
Measurement of carbon emissions from marine fisheries and system dynamics simulation analysis: China’s northern marine economic zone case	16
Untangling worldwide conflicts in marine protected areas: Five lessons from the five continents	16
Driving factors on implementation of seasonal marine fishing moratorium system in China using evolutionary game	16
The psychology of cruise service usage post COVID-19: Health management and policy implications	16
Governance as a framework to theorise and evaluate marine planning	16
Namibia's way to Marine Spatial Planning – Using existing practices or instigating its own approach?	16
Safety management in remotely controlled vessel operations	16
Exploring uses of maritime surveillance data for marine spatial planning: A review of scientific literature	16
Food safety during seaweed cultivation at offshore wind farms: An exploratory study in the North Sea	16
The fisheries of the South China Sea: Major trends since 1950	16
How to model social-ecological systems? – A case study on the effects of a future offshore wind farm on the local society and ecosystem, and whether social compensation matters	16
The impacts of carbon pricing on maritime transport costs and their implications for developing economies	16
Research is needed to inform environmental management of hydrothermally inactive and extinct polymetallic sulfide (PMS) deposits	16