Governing Marine Living Resources in the Polar Regions

Edited by Nengye Liu, Yong Pung How School of LawSingapore Management University, Singapore, Cassandra M. Brooks, Environmental Studies Programme, University of Colorado Boulder, US and Tianbao Qin, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, China

‘The book paints a well-rounded picture of the state of play on issues of polar region marine living resource management in the second decade of the twenty-first century.’

• ContentsList of contributors viiForeword by Klaus Dodds xiiiForeword by Karen N. Scott xviiiAcknowledgement xxi1 Introduction 1Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao QinPART I ANTARCTICA2 The principles of the Convention on the Conservation ofAntarctic Marine Living Resources: why its Commission is nota Regional Fisheries Management Organisation 9Anthony J. Press, Indi Hodgson-Johnston andAndrew J. Constable3 Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine LivingResources (CCAMLR): implementation of conservation ofSouthern Ocean marine living resources 30Keith Reid4 Geopolitical complexity at the bottom of the world:CCAMLR’s ongoing challenge of adopting marine protectedareas 43Cassandra M. Brooks5 Inclusive and evidence-based decision-making in CCAMLR:a basis for ensuring compliance? 66Nils VanstappenPART II ARCTIC6 Governance of fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean:cooperative currents, foggy future 92David L. VanderZwaag7 Russia and Arctic fisheries 109Alexander Sergunin8 Governing access rights to harvesting marine living resources:the case of the Svalbard Archipelago 138Sandra Cassotta and Rachel TillerPART III FUTURE CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS9 Frozen robots: autonomous underwater vehicles andunmanned aerial vehicles in the Antarctic: a new tool or a newchallenge for sustainable ocean governance? 158David Leary10 Bioprospecting in Antarctica: obligations and challenges 177Ana Fl.via Barros-Platiau, Carina Costa de Oliveira,Gabriela G.B. Lima Moraes and Pierre Mazzega11 The settlement of disputes concerning conservation of fishstocks in the Arctic and Antarctic high seas: towardscomprehensive compulsory jurisdiction? 196Valentin J. Schatz12 The future of governing marine living resources in thePolar Regions 222Nengye Liu and Cassandra M. BrooksIndex 229