Review
Oceanography
Reda Albotoush, Aileen Tan Shau-Hwai
Summary: Challenges in MSP implementation relate to governance approaches, lack of communication channels, and institutional practice differences. A comprehensive study on national jurisdictional marine area management and authority types has not yet been conducted, making this systematic review aiming to highlight and promote best practices essential.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Steve Diggon, John Bones, Charles J. Short, Joanna L. Smith, Megan Dickinson, Kelly Wozniak, Karen Topelko, Kylee A. Pawluk
Summary: Marine spatial planning has been widely used worldwide, and ecosystem-based management in British Columbia started with land use planning in the 1990s. Managing marine resources on Canada's Pacific coast is challenging due to multiple jurisdictions, unceded indigenous territories, and lack of coordination. The Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast (MaPP) was established in 2011 as a co-led partnership between First Nations and the Province of British Columbia governments, developing and implementing marine plans for coastal and offshore water in northern British Columbia.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Nicole Wienrich, Victoria Qutuuq Buschman, Catherine Coon, Susanna Fuller, Janos Hennicke, Christoph Humrich, Christian Prip, Lauren Wenzel
Summary: Climate change has a strong impact on Arctic marine ecosystems and the coastal communities in the region. The Ecosystem Approach (EA) is considered a promising method to understand and manage these changes. International assessments, regional institutions, and Indigenous knowledge provide valuable starting points for implementing the EA. However, there is a lack of mechanisms to translate knowledge into coordinated action. Incremental steps and bottom-up initiatives may be effective in promoting the application of EA in the region.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Andrew R. Thompson, Noah J. Ben-Aderet, Noelle M. Bowlin, Dovi Kacev, Rasmus Swalethorp, William Watson
Summary: The study shows that the marine heatwave from 2014 to 2016 caused changes in larval fish assemblage structure and diversity in the California Current Ecosystem, indicating that fish spawned earlier than usual during this period and the species richness significantly increased.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Adiska Octa Paramita, Stefan Partelow, Marie Fujitani
Summary: This article systematically reviews the literature on deliberation in marine and coastal governance systems, finding an uneven spatial distribution of studies between the global north and global south. Most case studies use deliberation to develop recommendations related to participatory governance, and researchers actively participate in solving real-world problems through the creation of deliberation processes. The findings suggest that deliberation processes can provide a framework to enhance participatory governance/management and science-policy integration.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biology
H. William Fennie, Rachel Seary, Barbara A. Muhling, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie Brodie, Megan A. Cimino, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Elizabeth A. McHuron, Sharon Melin, Jarrod A. Santora, Justin J. Suca, Julie A. Thayer, Andrew R. Thompson, Pete Warzybok, Desiree Tommasi
Summary: Forage fishes play a crucial role in transferring energy in the food web. Understanding how they control the dynamics of the ecosystem is essential, especially in the face of climate change. The study focused on northern anchovy, an important forage species in the northeast Pacific, and found that its habitat suitability correlated with the diet and distribution of marine predators. The findings highlight the relevance of species distribution models in ecosystem-based management.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Elizabeth Macpherson, Stephen C. Urlich, Hamish G. Rennie, Adrienne Paul, Karen Fisher, Laura Braid, Jill Banwell, Julia Torres Ventura, Eric Jorgensen
Summary: The study found important lessons for implementing ecosystem-based marine management, such as accepting regulatory fragmentation, providing effective resourcing, respecting Indigenous rights, and avoiding conflation with conventional approaches. Viewing EBM as a dynamic process of dialogue, negotiation, and adjustment can enable cross-government collaboration and community buy-in.
Review
Environmental Studies
Jordan Gacutan, Kemal Pinarbasi, Messan Agbaglah, Crystal Bradley, Ibon Galparsoro, Arantza Murillas, Ibukun Adewumi, Teerapong Praphotjanaporn, Michael Bordt, Kenneth Findlay, Coulson Lantz, Ben M. Milligan
Summary: Balancing multiple policy priorities in ocean planning and management is challenging. The integration of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and Ocean Accounting (OA) frameworks can help address these challenges. However, there are still opportunities and barriers for the co-development of these frameworks.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meg Parsons, Lara Taylor, Roa Crease
Summary: Studies have shown that Indigenous peoples worldwide face environmental injustices in marine governance and management, particularly in the inequitable decision-making processes surrounding the establishment and operation of marine protected areas.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matt Sehrsweeney, Alexandra Paige Fischer
Summary: Climate change has a dynamic impact on ecosystems, requiring more flexible and responsive ecosystem management. The ability to adapt management approaches depends on access to resources and social capital, which in turn are influenced by socio-political conditions. While there is extensive research on adaptive capacity at the individual, community, and organization level, there is less focus on adaptive capacity within governance networks involved in ecosystem management. This study analyzes three governance networks in the Pacific Northwestern US and identifies four key socio-political conditions that shape adaptive capacity: political power, legal power, institutional support, and extent of protected land.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
Article
Oceanography
Robert L. Stephenson, Alistair J. Hobday, Ian Butler, Toni Cannard, Mel Cowlishaw, Ian Cresswell, Christopher Cvitanovic, Kirstin Dobbs, Stewart Frusher, Maree Fudge, Beth Fulton, Bronwyn M. Gillanders, Natalie Gollan, Marcus Haward, Trevor Hutton, Alan Jordan, Jan McDonald, Catriona Macleod, Gretta Pecl, Eva E. Plaganyi, Ingrid van Putten, Joanna Vince, Timothy Ward
Summary: This paper synthesizes seven Australian case studies to explore the key features and stages of Integrated Management (IM). The study found that most of the key features were seen as important in all case studies, but only a few examples fully implemented them.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Kurt C. Heim, Lesley H. Thorne, Joseph D. Warren, Jason S. Link, Janet A. Nye
Summary: Time series indicators play an important role in ecosystem-based management, but their behavior is influenced by the spatial scale of ecosystem delineation. The study in the Northwest Atlantic continental shelf ecosystem found that the signals of indicator trends varied depending on the spatial scale defined. Indicators related to temperature, chlorophyll-a, and zooplankton showed spatial coherence across different scales, while mid-trophic level indicators exhibited more spatial variation in trends.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Angela Helen Martin, Maike Iris Esther Scheffold, Bethan Christine O'Leary
Summary: The article emphasizes the important role of fish in the ocean carbon sink and calls for their inclusion in marine policies and carbon stock management. The prevailing views and strategies in fisheries and blue carbon management are challenged regarding their disregard for the carbon functions of fish. The article argues for a change in perspective and outlines the various roles of fish in marine ecosystems, highlighting the risks associated with current approaches and proposing better integration of fish carbon functions in management strategies.
Article
Oceanography
Marco Custodio, Ine Moulaert, Jana Asselman, Katrien van der Biest, Lennert van de Pol, Magriet Drouillon, Simon Hernandez Lucas, Sue Ellen Taelman, Gert Everaert
Summary: Involving stakeholders and incorporating their knowledge in the decision-making process is beneficial for applying the Ecosystem Services concept in managing marine activities. A stakeholder workshop was organized on the Belgian Continental Shelf to capture stakeholders' opinions on key ecosystem services and to identify the relationship between specific marine economic activities and the anticipated change in ecosystem services. The highest-ranking ecosystem services were coastal protection, biodiversity, offshore wind energy, surface for navigation, and habitat maintenance. This approach provides a baseline for establishing priorities during ecosystem services modeling and management.
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Law
Lena Schoning
Summary: This article investigates the contribution of Norwegian integrated marine management plans to marine environmental protection, suggesting that these plans primarily contribute to reducing harm rather than long-term marine environmental protection.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARINE AND COASTAL LAW
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emily S. Munday, Brian N. Tissot, Jerry R. Heidel, Tim Miller-Morgan
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Todd C. Stevenson, Brian N. Tissot, William J. Walsh
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
(2013)
Article
Fisheries
Todd C. Stevenson, Brian N. Tissot, Jan Dierking
ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
(2011)
Article
Ecology
Delisse M. Ortiz, Brian N. Tissot
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
(2012)
Article
Fisheries
Melissa Neuman, Brian Tissot, Glenn Vanblaricom
JOURNAL OF SHELLFISH RESEARCH
(2010)
Article
Ecology
Helen E. Fox, Kelly M. Haisfield, Michael S. Brown, Todd C. Stevenson, Brian N. Tissot, William J. Walsh, Ivor D. Williams
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
(2012)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mark R. Christie, Brian N. Tissot, Mark A. Albins, James P. Beets, Yanli Jia, Delisse M. Ortiz, Stephen E. Thompson, Mark A. Hixon
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kirsten Grorud-Colvert, Joachim Claudet, Brian N. Tissot, Jennifer E. Caselle, Mark H. Carr, Jon C. Day, Alan M. Friedlander, Sarah E. Lester, Thierry Lison De Loma, Daniel Malone, William J. Walsh
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Todd C. Stevenson, Brian N. Tissot
CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
(2014)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Ricardo Calado, Miguel C. Leal, Marcela C. M. Vaz, Chris Brown, Rui Rosa, Todd C. Stevenson, Cara H. Cooper, Brian N. Tissot, Ya-Wei Li, Daniel J. Thornhill
CONSERVATION LETTERS
(2014)
Editorial Material
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Julio Lorda, Rodrigo Beas-Luna, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Hector Reyes-Bonilla, Brian N. Tissot, Diana Steller
Article
Marine & Freshwater Biology
Corinne N. Kane, Brian N. Tissot
Article
Environmental Studies
Todd C. Stevenson, Brian N. Tissot
Article
Environmental Studies
Brian N. Tissot, Barbara A. Best, Eric H. Borneman, Andrew W. Bruckner, Cara H. Cooper, Heather D'Agnes, Timothy P. Fitzgerald, Amanda Leland, Susan Lieberman, Amy Mathews Amos, Rashid Sumaila, Teresa M. Telecky, Frazer McGilvray, Brian J. Plankis, Andrew L. Rhyne, Glynnis G. Roberts, Benjamin Starkhouse, Todd C. Stevenson