Marine Policy

Article	Citations
Blue growth and blue justice: Ten risks and solutions for the ocean economy	190
A review of global oyster aquaculture production and consumption	151
The key challenges and critical success factors of blockchain implementation: Policy implications for Singapore’s maritime industry	88
Assessment of scientific gaps related to the effective environmental management of deep-seabed mining	81
Climate change increases the risk of fisheries conflict	74
COVID-19 impacts and adaptations in Asia and Africa’s aquatic food value chains	73
How do environmental regulation and technological innovation affect the sustainable development of marine economy: New evidence from China’s coastal provinces and cities	72
Considering Indigenous Peoples and local communities in governance of the global ocean commons	65
Ecological security evaluation of marine ranching with AHP-entropy-based TOPSIS: A case study of Yantai, China	65
Estimating the effect of COVID-19 epidemic on shipping trade: An empirical analysis using panel data	63
Assessment of the economic performance of the seabream and seabass aquaculture industry in the European Union	60
Life in a drop: Sampling environmental DNA for marine fishery management and ecosystem monitoring	60
Nonlinear effects of marine economic growth and technological innovation on marine pollution: Panel threshold analysis for China's 11 coastal regions	60
Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction	57
Two decades of progress in Marine Spatial Planning	52
Recent ship traffic and developing shipping trends on the Northern Sea Route—Policy implications for future arctic shipping	51
Do political promotion incentive and fiscal incentive of local governments matter for the marine environmental pollution? Evidence from China’s coastal areas	51
Major challenges in developing marine spatial planning	51
The opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistical, geopolitical, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts	51
Assessing impacts of COVID-19 on aquatic food system and small-scale fisheries in Bangladesh	50
Financial development, productivity, and high-quality development of the marine economy	48
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	47
Financial inclusion to build economic resilience in small-scale fisheries	45
From Blue Economy to Blue Communities: reorienting aquaculture expansion for community wellbeing	44
Evolution of mariculture policies in China: Experience and challenge	42

COVID-19 border closures cause humanitarian crew change crisis at sea	42
Evolution of China's marine ranching policy based on the perspective of policy tools	42
Stuck in the middle with you (and not much time left): The third intergovernmental conference on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction	42
COVID-19 restrictions amidst cyclones and volcanoes: A rapid assessment of early impacts on livelihoods and food security in coastal communities in Vanuatu	41
Visualizing the social in aquaculture: How social dimension components illustrate the effects of aquaculture across geographic scales	41
Carbon emission and economic output of China’s marine fishery – A decoupling efforts analysis	41
COVID-19 provides an opportunity to advance a sustainable UK fisheries policy in a post-Brexit brave new world	41
Carbon Emission Trading Scheme in the shipping sector: Drivers, challenges, and impacts	41
An evolutionary game model analysis on emission control areas in China	41
Traditional knowledge and the BBNJ instrument	41
Marine spatial planning in areas beyond national jurisdiction	41
A blue carbon ecosystems qualitative assessment applying the DPSIR framework: Local perspective of global benefits and contributions	41
An emergency responding mechanism for cruise epidemic prevention—taking COVID-19 as an example	40
Key factors of container port competitiveness: A global shipping lines perspective	40
Challenges and misperceptions around global fishing gear loss estimates	39
Environmental considerations for impact and preservation reference zones for deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining	39
Survival of the Richest, not the Fittest: How attempts to improve governance impact African small-scale marine fisheries	38
Implementation of blue carbon offset crediting for seagrass meadows, macroalgal beds, and macroalgae farming in Japan	37
Evolutionary policy of trading of blue carbon produced by marine ranching with media participation and government supervision	36
Impacts of COVID-19 on the finfish aquaculture industry of Bangladesh: A case study	36
Exploring gender inclusion in small-scale fisheries management and development in Melanesia	36
Research on the ecologicalization efficiency of mariculture industry in China and its influencing factors	35
How do carbon trading platform participation and government subsidy motivate blue carbon trading of marine ranching? A study based on evolutionary equilibrium strategy method	35
A case for seaweed aquaculture inclusion in U.S. nutrient pollution management	35
The oyster fishery in China: Trend, concerns and solutions	35
Blue crime: Conceptualising transnational organised crime at sea	35
The ability of fish ecolabels to promote a change in the sustainability awareness	34
Can environmental regulation promote urban innovation in the underdeveloped coastal regions of western China?	34
More than fish: Policy coherence and benefit sharing as necessary conditions for equitable aquaculture development	34
Feasibility of the Northern Sea Route for oil shipping from the economic and environmental perspective and its influence on China's oil imports	34
The usual suspects? Distribution of collaboration capital in marine biodiversity research	34
Increasing Ghanaian fish farms’ productivity: Does the use of the internet matter?	34
The blue economy as a boundary object for hegemony across scales	34
Assessing plume impacts caused by polymetallic nodule mining vehicles	33
Measuring achievements towards SDG 14, life below water, in the United Arab Emirates	33
Small-scale fisheries development in Africa: Lessons learned and best practices for enhancing food security and livelihoods	32
Defining active, inactive, and extinct seafloor massive sulfide deposits	32
Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation	32
Developing sustainable small-scale fisheries livelihoods in Indonesia: Trends, enabling and constraining factors, and future opportunities	32
Seaweeds farming for sustainable development goals and blue economy in Bangladesh	32
Plastic Bags Prohibition Bill: A developing story of crass legalism aiming to reduce plastic marine pollution in Nigeria	32
Combining offshore wind farms, nature conservation and seafood: Lessons from a Dutch community of practice	31
Getting to 2030 - Scaling effort to ambition through a narrative model of the SDGs	31
Impact of novel coronavirus pandemic on aquaculture and fisheries in developing countries and sustainable recovery plans: Case of Bangladesh	31
The model of early warning for China's marine ecology-economy symbiosis security	31
Using citizen science to evaluate extended producer responsibility policy to reduce marine plastic debris shows no reduction in pollution levels	31
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	30
Ocean science, data, and services for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals	30
Current and future socio-ecological vulnerability and adaptation of artisanal fisheries communities in Peru, the case of the Huaura province	30
Port competitiveness: Do container terminal operators and liner shipping companies see eye to eye?	30

Rights of Nature: Perspectives for Global Ocean Stewardship	30
Synergistic analysis of the resilience and efficiency of China’s marine economy and the role of resilience policy	30
Maritime transport and economic growth: Interconnection and influence (an example of the countriesin the Caspian sea coast; Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran)	30
Environmental (in)justice in the Anthropocene ocean	30
Blue bonds for marine conservation and a sustainable ocean economy: Status, trends, and insights from green bonds	29
Implementation of the Energy Efficiency Existing Ship Index: An important but costly step towards ocean protection	29
The Ross Sea, Antarctica: A highly protected MPA in international waters	29
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	29
Analysis and discussion of 28 recent marine protected area governance (MPAG) case studies: Challenges of decentralisation in the shadow of hierarchy	29
Input versus output controls as instruments for fisheries management with a focus on Mediterranean fisheries	29
Beyond static spatial management: Scientific and legal considerations for dynamic management in the high seas	28
Mapping and analysis of maritime accidents in the Russian Arctic through the lens of the Polar Code and POLARIS system	28
Estimating the damage cost of plastic waste in Galapagos Islands: A contingent valuation approach	28
Public acceptance of a large-scale offshore wind power project in South Korea	28
Crafting a sustainability transition experiment for the brazilian blue economy	28
Does digital technology promote the sustainable development of the marine equipment manufacturing industry in China?	28
Influence of marine industrial agglomeration and environmental regulation on marine innovation efficiency—From an innovation value chain perspective	27
COVID-19 impacts on coastal communities in Kenya	27
Local practices and production confer resilience to rural Pacific food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
A bibliometric assessment of progress in marine spatial planning	27
Planning marine protected areas under the CCAMLR regime – The case of the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)	27
Towards sustainable small-scale fisheries in China: A case study of Hainan	27
Strategies, actions, and policies by Taiwan’s ENGOs, media, and government to reduce plastic use and marine plastic pollution	26
Policy outlook: Recent evolutions of maritime spatial planning in the European Union	26
The Marine Plan Partnership: Indigenous community-based marine spatial planning	26
Evolution of the coupling coordination between the marine economy and urban resilience of major coastal cities in China	26
Spatio-temporal evolutionary characteristics of carbon emissions and carbon sinks of marine industry in China and their time-dependent models	26
How blue financing can sustain ocean conservation and development: A proposed conceptual framework for blue financing mechanism	26
Adapting our sea ports to the challenges of climate change: Development and validation of a Port Resilience Index	26
Marine conservation beyond MPAs: Towards the recognition of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) in Indonesia	26
The voice of Mexican small-scale fishers in times of COVID-19: Impacts, responses, and digital divide	26
Unpacking legal and policy frameworks: A step ahead for implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines	25
Maritime dependency and economic prosperity: Why access to oceanic trade matters	25
Research on cooperation mechanism of marine plastic waste management based on complex network evolutionary game	25
A critical review of marine mammal governance and protection in Indonesia	25
Implementing marine functional zoning in China	25
Impact of working capital management on profitability for Spanish fish canning companies	25
Sexual harassment and women seafarers: The role of laws and policies to ensure occupational safety & health	25
Gender and Blue Justice in small-scale fisheries governance	25
Coastal tourism, market segmentation and contested landscapes	25
The ocean, climate change and resilience: Making ocean areas beyond national jurisdiction more resilient to climate change and other anthropogenic activities	25
Has environmental regulation facilitated the green transformation of the marine industry?	25
Institutional arrangements for the new BBNJ agreement: Moving beyond global, regional, and hybrid	25
Decent work in fisheries: Current trends and key considerations for future research and policy	25
Has China's Free Trade Zone policy expedited port production and development?	25
Stakeholder-defined scientific needs for coastal resilience decisions in the Northeast U.S.	24
Factors influencing catch and support for the implementation of the closed fishing season in Davao Gulf, Philippines	24
Assessing the potential areas for developing offshore wind energy in Japanese territorial waters considering national zoning and possible social conflicts	24
Knowledge, practice, and economic impacts of COVID-19 on small-scale coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh: Policy recommendations for improved livelihoods	24
A preliminary survey to assess the awareness, attitudes/behaviours, and opinions pertaining to plastic and microplastic pollution among students in India	24
The impacts of carbon pricing on maritime transport costs and their implications for developing economies	24
The evolution of the port network along the Maritime Silk Road: From a sustainable development perspective	24
Critical gaps in the protection of the second largest exclusive economic zone in the world	24
Sustainable shipping: A critical review for a unified framework and future research agenda	24
Promoting pro-environmental behavior through citizen science? A case study with Chilean schoolchildren on marine plastic pollution	24
Policy solutions to facilitate restoration in coastal marine environments	23
Sleuthing with sound: Understanding vessel activity in marine protected areas using passive acoustic monitoring	23
Aquaculture policy: Designing licenses for environmental regulation	23
The complex relationships between marine protected areas and marine spatial planning: Towards an analytical framework	23
Ship first: Seafarers’ adjustment of records on work and rest hours	23
Coral reef restoration in Indonesia: A review of policies and projects	23
Monitoring the COVID-19-affected Indonesian seaweed industry using remote sensing data	23
Characterising the vulnerability of fishing households to climate and environmental change: Insights from Ghana	23
Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis	23
Indicating sustainable salmon farming: The case of the new Norwegian aquaculture management scheme	23
Monitoring coastal reclamation changes across Jiangsu Province during 1984–2019 using landsat data	23
Operationalisation of ecosystem services in support of ecosystem-based marine spatial planning: insights into needs and recommendations	23
IMO off course for decarbonisation of shipping? Three challenges for stricter policy	23
Potential spatial effects of opening Arctic shipping routes on the shipping network of ports between China and Europe	23
Changing the narrative on fisheries subsidies reform: Enabling transitions to achieve SDG 14.6 and beyond	23
Organizational perspectives on sustainable ocean governance: A multi-stakeholder, meta-organization model of collective action	23
Who's who in the value chain for the Mexican octopus fishery: Mapping the production chain	23
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
Enhanced monitoring of life in the sea is a critical component of conservation management and sustainable economic growth	22
Alternative seafood marketing systems foster transformative processes in Mediterranean fisheries	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
Engagement of stakeholders in the marine/maritime spatial planning process	22
The evolution of China's marine economic policy and the labor productivity growth momentum of marine economy and its three economic industries	22
Epistemic justice and the integration of local ecological knowledge for marine conservation: Lessons from the Seychelles	22
Increased maritime traffic in the Arctic: Implications for governance of Arctic sea routes	22

Innovative financing mechanism for blue economy projects	22
Impact of sci-tech finance on the innovation efficiency of China's marine industry	22
Navigating risks and uncertainties: Risk perceptions and risk management strategies in the Philippine seaweed industry	21
Potential spatial intersection between high-seas fisheries and deep-sea mining in international waters	21
A global review of elasmobranch tourism activities, management and risk	21
China’s 21st century maritime silk road: Challenges and opportunities to coastal livelihoods in ASEAN countries	21
Hot fish: The response to climate change by regional fisheries bodies	21
A better understanding of social-ecological systems is needed for adapting fisheries to climate change	21
CARICOM and the blue economy – Multiple understandings and their implications for global engagement	21
Measurement of carbon emissions from marine fisheries and system dynamics simulation analysis: China’s northern marine economic zone case	21
Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing impacts: A systematic review of evidence and proposed future agenda	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
Social-ecological vulnerability to climate change in small-scale fisheries managed under spatial property rights systems	21
Effects of marine ranching policies on the ecological efficiency of marine ranching—Based on 25 marine ranching in Shandong Province	21
Governing the welfare of Norwegian farmed salmon: Three conflict cases	20
Social-ecological shifts, traps and collapses in small-scale fisheries: Envisioning a way forward to transformative changes	20
Research is needed to inform environmental management of hydrothermally inactive and extinct polymetallic sulfide (PMS) deposits	20
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	20
Shark and ray trade in and out of Indonesia: Addressing knowledge gaps on the path to sustainability	20
Becoming certified, becoming sustainable? Improvements from aquaculture certification schemes as experienced by those certified	20
The Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement as an element in the evolving Arctic Ocean governance complex	20
Adjustment trend of China’s marine fishery policy since 2011	20
Application of scientific criteria for identifying hydrothermal ecosystems in need of protection	20
Human dimensions of marine protected areas and small-scale fisheries management: A review of the interpretations	20
On the use of deep learning for fish species recognition and quantification on board fishing vessels	20
Exploring diversity and engagement of divers in citizen science: Insights for marine management and conservation	20
A study on transnational regulatory governance for marine plastic debris: Trends, challenges, and prospect	20
Understanding the public attitude towards sharks for improving their conservation	20
The development of a policy framework to mitigate underwater noise pollution from commercial vessels: The role of ports	20
Shipyard site selection by raster calculation method and AHP in GIS environment, İskenderun, Turkey	20
Marine reserve more sustainable than gear restriction in maintaining long-term coral reef fisheries yields	20
Environmental policy and innovation in Norwegian fish farming: Resolving the sea lice problem?	20
The BRUVs workshop – An Australia-wide synthesis of baited remote underwater video data to answer broad-scale ecological questions about fish, sharks and rays	20
Critical factor identification of marine ranching ecological security with hierarchical DEMATEL	19
Capacity building and technology transfer for improving governance of marine areas both beyond and within national jurisdiction	19
Cultural heritage and environmental ethical values in governance models: Conflicts between recreational fisheries and other maritime activities in Mediterranean marine protected areas	19
Beach-user perceptions and attitudes towards drone surveillance as a shark-bite mitigation tool	19
Resilience of small-scale marine fishers of Bangladesh against the COVID-19 pandemic and the 65-day fishing ban	19
Valuing marine ecosystem service damage caused by land reclamation: Insights from a deliberative choice experiment in Jiaozhou Bay	19
The impact of news media portrayals of sharks on public perception of risk and support for shark conservation	19
Vessel monitoring systems as a tool for mapping fishing effort for a small inshore fishery operating within a marine protected area	19
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on aquatic environment and fishing community: Boon or bane?	19
A comparison of environmental and economic sustainability across seafood and livestock product value chains	19
Assessment of postharvest fish losses: The case study of Albert Bosomtwi-Sam fishing harbour, Western Region, Ghana	19
Not ‘undermining’ who? Unpacking the emerging BBNJ regime complex	19
Challenges and opportunities for sustainable development and management of marine recreational and sport fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean	19
The functional territorialization of the high seas	19
Towards territorial development in fisheries areas: A typology of projects funded by Fisheries Local Action Groups	19
A social network analysis of the Philippine seaweed farming industry: Unravelling the web	19
Transboundary marine spatial planning across Europe: Trends and priorities in nearly two decades of project work	18
Regulating the Blue Economy? Challenges to an effective Canadian aquaculture act	18
Ecological video monitoring of Marine Protected Areas by underwater cabled surveillance cameras	18
Potential for conflicts in recreational and artisanal billfish fisheries on the coast of Kenya	18
Social and economic challenges to community-based sea cucumber mariculture development in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea	18
Decarbonisation of the shipping sector – Time to ban fossil fuels?	18
Practical policy solutions for the final stage of BBNJ treaty negotiations	18
Growing industrialization and poor conservation planning challenge natural resources' management in the Amazon Shelf off Brazil	18
Resilience and adaptive capacity of Oregon’s fishing community: Cumulative impacts of climate change and the graying of the fleet	18
Using western science and Inuit knowledge to model ship-source noise exposure for cetaceans (marine mammals) in Tallurutiup Imanga (Lancaster Sound), Nunavut, Canada	18
The Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast – MaPP: A collaborative and co-led marine planning process in British Columbia	18
Matching fishery-specific drivers of abandoned, lost and discarded fishing gear to relevant interventions	18
Residents’ acceptance of using desalinated water in China based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB)	18
Vulnerability and costs of adaptation strategies for housing subjected to flood risks: Application to La Guérinière France	18
Determinants of capital structure in the Norwegian salmon aquaculture industry	18
Institutional nuts and bolts for a mesopelagic fishery in Norway	18
Understanding and evidencing a broader range of ‘successes’ that can occur at the interface of marine science and policy	18
Opening the black box of conservation philanthropy: A co-produced research agenda on private foundations in marine conservation	18
Blue Justice and the co-production of hermeneutical resources for small-scale fisheries	18
Diving tourism in Mexico – Economic and conservation importance	18
Safety management in remotely controlled vessel operations	18
Deep-sea mining legislation in Pacific Island countries: From the perspective of public participation in approval procedures	18
Arctic transshipment hub planning along the Northern Sea Route: A systematic literature review and policy implications of Arctic port infrastructure	18
Perceptions of plastic pollution in a prominent fishery: Building strategies to inform management	17
Getting on board with biosecurity: Evaluating the effectiveness of marine invasive alien species biosecurity policy for England and Wales	17
Empowering small-scale, community-based fisheries through a food systems framework	17
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on fish trade and the coping strategies: An initial assessment from China’s perspective	17
Beyond slavery scandals: Explaining working conditions among fish workers in Taiwan and Thailand	17
The issue of microplastic in the oceans: Preferences and willingness to pay to tackle the issue in Australia	17
Ghost fishing gear and their effect on ecosystem services – Identification and knowledge gaps	17
Labels on seafood products in different European countries and their compliance to EU legislation	17
Pathways to establishing managed access and networks of reserves	17
A systematic review of integrated coastal and marine management progress reveals core governance characteristics for successful implementation	17
Food safety during seaweed cultivation at offshore wind farms: An exploratory study in the North Sea	17
Integrating cultural and natural heritage approaches to Marine Protected Areas in the MENA region	17
Namibia's way to Marine Spatial Planning – Using existing practices or instigating its own approach?	17
COVID-19 and small-scale fisheries in Africa: Impacts on livelihoods and the fish value chain in Cameroon and Liberia	17
Evaluation of China's marine economic growth quality based on set pair analysis	17
Consumer seafood preferences related to alternative food networks and their value chains	17
Gender equality for sustainability in ports: Developing a framework	17
Untangling worldwide conflicts in marine protected areas: Five lessons from the five continents	17
Impacts of COVID-19 on the value chain of the hake small scale fishery in northern Peru	17
Citizen participation in monitoring phytoplankton seawater discolorations	17
Whale-watch vessel noise levels with applications to whale-watching guidelines and conservation	17
How to control cruise ship disease risk? Inspiration from the research literature	17
Governance as a framework to theorise and evaluate marine planning	16