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Close the high seas to fishing? [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2014 The world's oceans are governed as a system of over 150 sovereign exclusive economic zones (EEZs, ∼42% of the ocean) and one large high seas (HS) commons (∼58% of ocean) with essentially open access.
Crow White, Christopher Costello
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High stakes on the high seas. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2018 Jennifer Jacquet Jeremy B. C. Jackson Today, “the high seas” are generally understood to refer to the vast expanses of open oceans that are not under the formal jurisdiction of any nation. Legally, the high seas are defined as the 60% expanse of the oceans that lie beyond national exclusive economic zones, which are within 200 nautical miles ...
Jacquet J, Jackson JBC.
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Elektronički Zbornik Radova Veleučilišta u ŠibenikuThe high seas are an institute of international law of the sea codified first by the 1958 Convention on the High Seas and subsequently by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Ante Paić
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The quantifying, mapping, and risk analysis of human-related stressors in the high seas [PDF]
Science ProgressObjectives: Marine biodiversity and ecosystem services in the high seas are threatened by numerous stress factors caused by human activities, including global shipping, high-sea fishing, marine plastic pollution, and anthropogenic climate change ...
Chang Zhao, Miaozhuang Zheng, Yuejing Ge
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Impact of High Seas Closure on Food Security in Low Income Fish Dependent Countries. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 We investigate how high seas closure will affect the availability of commonly consumed food fish in 46 fish reliant, and/or low income countries. Domestic consumption of straddling fish species (fish that would be affected by high seas closure) occurred ...
Louise S L Teh +5 more
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The economics of fishing the high seas. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2018 Much of the economic profitability of fishing the high seas is dependent on government subsidies.
Sala E +7 more
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Hitchhiking the high seas: Global genomics of rafting crabs [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Population differentiation and diversification depend in large part on the ability and propensity of organisms to successfully disperse. However, our understanding of these processes in organisms with high dispersal ability is biased by the limited ...
Joseph B. Pfaller +4 more
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The climate impact of high seas shipping [PDF]
National Science Review, 2023 Shouyang Wang +2 more
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Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic
Conservation Letters, 2021 The conservation of migratory marine species, including pelagic seabirds, is challenging because their movements span vast distances frequently beyond national jurisdictions.
Tammy E. Davies +78 more
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Protection of the High Seas and Marine Protected Areas
Public and Private International Law Bulletin, 2022 Significant pollution and destruction have taken place in the oceans as a result of human activities. Human-induced pollution in this vast ecosystem, destruction and dimensions of climate change pose a great danger to ocean life and thus life on earth ...
Sercan Reçber
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