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dc.contributor.authorJørgensen, Lis Lindal
dc.contributor.authorBakke, G.
dc.contributor.authorHoel, Alf Håkon
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-07T13:20:17Z
dc.date.available2023-09-07T13:20:17Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-01
dc.description.abstractThe northernmost commercial fisheries in the world take place in the northern Barents Sea up to around 80° N. This is an area where global warming is particularly intense and where large, previously ice-covered areas are now more accessible to fishing vessels. This raised questions whether existing conservation and management measures are adequate. In this paper, we discuss the process of developing new regulatory measures, including four large preliminary closed areas covering 442,022 km2 and an additional ten closed areas covering more than 3260 km2 that protects sites with biodiversity, specific to the region. The new measures, an amendment to an old regulation related to the management of impacts from bottom fisheries on ecosystems, is based on knowledge derived from more than 10 years of scientific surveys of the seabed ecology. A key finding here is that cost-efficient, large-scale mapping and monitoring of seabed ecosystems is important for the development of area-based regulations of fishing activities. In the process of developing the regulation the Directorate of Fisheries made its own analysis of the data from the scientific surveys by a novel approach using commercially available software. Such area-based measures also contribute to the achievement of Aichi target 11 and UN Sustainable Development Goal 14.5 on protecting maritime areas.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJørgensen, Bakke, Hoel. Responding to global warming: New fisheries management measures in the Arctic. Progress in Oceanography. 2020;188en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1856629
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102423
dc.identifier.issn0079-6611
dc.identifier.issn1873-4472
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/30779
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalProgress in Oceanography
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 228880en_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 228896en_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleResponding to global warming: New fisheries management measures in the Arcticen_US
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dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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