Troubles in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ): Impossible and Careless Conservation Management and Enforcement for Seabirds, Marine Life and Habitats

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 12:17 a.m.

The Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is part of a national jurisdiction, but widely out of reach for conservation.

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Many nations do not even have the gear, funding or the will and knowledge to monitor and enforce it fully.

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Based on Humphries and Huettmann (supported by E. Woehler; 2012) here emphasize the problems, and elaborate on the wider 

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but hardly known issues of the EEZ, using global seabirds as an example.

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Citations and related references (PDFs available upon request):

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Beal M. M. P. Dias, R. A. Phillips, S. Oppel, C. HazinE. J. Pearmain, J. Adams et al. (2021) Global political responsibility for the conservation of albatrosses and large petrels. Science Advances  7 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd7225

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Humphries, Grant R. W.; Huettmann, Falk (+ a contribution from Woehler, Eric) (2012)

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Global Issues for, and Profiles of, Arctic Seabird Protection: Effects of Big Oil, New

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Shipping Lanes, Shifting Baselines, and Climate Change. in F.Huettmann (ed)

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Protection of the Three Poles, Springer Tokyo, Japan, pp. 217-245 

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Huettmann F., T. Riehl and K. Meissner (2016) Paradise lost already? A naturalist

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interpretation of the pelagic avian and marine mammal detection database of the

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IceAGE cruise off Iceland and Faroe Islands in fall 2011. Environment, Systems and

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Decisions DOI: 10.1007/s10669-015-9583-0

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