All Outputs (35)

The UK scallop fishery: Time for a fundamental review (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The global fishing industry is facing unprecedented pressures. In the past (for a variety of reasons) the entire ocean was designated as a fishery using any gear type but increasingly this approach is untenable. The seas and the fishery (albeit thr... Read More about The UK scallop fishery: Time for a fundamental review.

Society and the Severn (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Dr Thomas Appleby, Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of the West of England and part of the International Water Security Network spoke on Society and the Severn and discussed different forms of control and protected interests and regulations a... Read More about Society and the Severn.

Sirens of the sea? Marine reserve designation on the Isle of Arran (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Lamlash Bay no take zone was the first and only community proposed no take marine reserve in the UK. To create the marine reserve required marine management in Scotland to rethink its relationship with the marine environment and local communitie... Read More about Sirens of the sea? Marine reserve designation on the Isle of Arran.

Governance in the marine environment (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The governance of the UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies is complex, endlessly fascinating and often politically charged. There is no area where this complexity is more demonstrable than in the marine environment, where the issues of ext... Read More about Governance in the marine environment.

Interview with Dr Thomas Appleby and Luke Jerram at the artwork Withdrawn (2015)
Digital Artefact

Fisheries law in action: An exploration of legal pathways to a better managed marine environment (2015)
Thesis

This narrative addresses the issue of fisheries law, a specialist area combining aspects of international law, EU law, legislation from the UK and the devolved administrations and the common law. The research appraised and analysed marine fishing ri... Read More about Fisheries law in action: An exploration of legal pathways to a better managed marine environment.

The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers? (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. The proclamation of a marine protected area by David Miliband in the Chagos Archipelago in 2010 triggered a complaint of infringement of sovereignty by Mauritius and a huma... Read More about The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers?.

Interview with Dr Thomas Appleby (2015)
Digital Artefact

Interview on the management of the Severn estuary

Guidelines for sustainable intertidal bait and seaweed collection in Wales: Legislative review (2014)
Report

The foreshore is subject to various public rights including the public right to fish in tidal waters. Ancillary to this right is the public right to collect, for personal use, bait on the foreshore and floating seaweed from the tidal waters.

The... Read More about Guidelines for sustainable intertidal bait and seaweed collection in Wales: Legislative review.

Time and Tide (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A short film on the implications of maximum sustainable yield in the Clyde with interviews from local stakeholders

A new approach to delivering fisheries management in English European marine sites (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Management of potentially damaging projects in Eu marine protected areas - so-called Natura 2000 Sites - are meant to be subject to strict protection measures. Despite this, up until 2012, there was no strategic approach across the UK to regulate pot... Read More about A new approach to delivering fisheries management in English European marine sites.

Law and science in conflict: The resurrection of maximum sustainable yield (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the first time the law on maximum sustainable yield changes the burden of proof, it is now up to the government to demonstrate sustainable fisheries. The right to fish is no longer untrammelled.

Maximum sustainable yield? Fish, fishers and people (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines the basis of 4 fundamental laws governing fisheries and human interaction with the sea: coastal states’ rights, obligations for sustainable fishing, duties for health and safety at sea and the public trust obligations in the way t... Read More about Maximum sustainable yield? Fish, fishers and people.

Time and Tide (2014)
Digital Artefact

Plenty More Fish in the Sea? A working paper on the legal issues related to fishing beyond maximum sustainable yield: A UK case study (2013)
Preprint / Working Paper

Maximum sustainable yield: from science to practice via the law (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ancient fishing rights and modern uses of the sea: Are the two compatible? (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Court of Appeal case of Isle of Anglesey CC v Welsh Ministers [2009] EWCA Civ 94 contains a hidden bombshell for those seeking to carry out marine development. Developers have traditionally needed a lease of the seabed and any relevant consents.... Read More about Ancient fishing rights and modern uses of the sea: Are the two compatible?.

Legal challenge and its implications (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Law and science view the decision making process very differently.

Scientists seek to test data to see if this leads to a trend which can inform the decision maker. Scientific certainty therefore has certain drawbacks. It is incredibly data hung... Read More about Legal challenge and its implications.

Up Frenchman's creek: A case study on managing commercial fishing in an English special area of conservation and its implications (2013)
Journal Article

The Habitats Directive has matured over the years since it
has been implemented. One of the last industries to feel its
application is the commercial sea fishing industry: the
industry which according to the Royal Commission on
Environmental Poll... Read More about Up Frenchman's creek: A case study on managing commercial fishing in an English special area of conservation and its implications.

Case commentary - fishing quota: A very large squatting claim? (2013)
Journal Article

United Kingdom Association of Fish Producer Organisations v
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
[2013] This case was a judicial review over the reallocation of unused fishing quota from the from the larger to smaller scale op... Read More about Case commentary - fishing quota: A very large squatting claim?.