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Barnes, Richard; Rosello, Mercedes --- "Fisheries and maritime security: understanding and enhancing the connection" [2020] ELECD 193; in Evans, D. Malcolm; Galani, Sofia (eds), "Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) 48

Book Title: Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea

Editor(s): Evans, D. Malcolm; Galani, Sofia

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Fisheries and maritime security: understanding and enhancing the connection

Author(s): Barnes, Richard; Rosello, Mercedes

Number of pages: 35

Abstract/Description:

Accounts of maritime security are increasingly receptive to more diffuse and complex threats to human communities. Security concerns have started to percolate the literature on fisheries management, which is ever more inclusive of non-traditional elements, such as operational synergies with crime or with food and human security. This chapter deepens our understanding of maritime security issues within the fisheries context. It significantly advances the debate by extending discussions about fisheries regulation into maritime security, showing how poor or ineffective regulation and management of fisheries activities can have a wider destabilising impact on maritime security. In particular, we argue that cumulative, multiple stresses at lower/different levels can render maritime security generally more vulnerable. This is underpinned by insights from criminology – ‘broken windows’ theory – and reinforced by a structural analysis of legal instruments governing fisheries management, which shows the strong interconnections between seemingly diffuse maritime rules and maritime practices. Some case studies are provided to demonstrate our approach.