All Outputs (68)

Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness (2024)
Journal Article

Crises such as water quality, pollution, climate change, overfishing, biodiversity, energy, waste, and carbon sequestration mean that legislation protecting the marine environment is under intense pressure to be effective and to demonstrate positive... Read More about Making sense of interlinkages in EU marine environment legislation: Unearthing effectiveness.

Planet Pod: Whose-fish-are-they-anyway? (2021)
Digital Artefact

Now the dust has settled, what does Brexit mean for local fishermen, for the fish catches and for precious marine habitats like Doggerbank?

Join our guests Dr Tom Appleby and John Condon for a thorough update on just what the Brexit deal does and... Read More about Planet Pod: Whose-fish-are-they-anyway?.

From membership to partnership, the EU and its relations with the UK after Brexit: The fisheries dimension (2020)
Journal Article

Abstract
Fishing in European waters has been a contentious issue since the sixteenth century and was a key factor in the development of the international law of the sea itself. At the time the UK joined the EU and shared its waters with Member State... Read More about From membership to partnership, the EU and its relations with the UK after Brexit: The fisheries dimension.

Planet Pod: Swimming against the tide (2020)
Digital Artefact

Planet Pod talks Brexit, fish and the environment with the two Toms – Dr Tom Appleby and Dr Tom West. We explore what leaving the EU, its regulations and the jurisdiction of the European Courts might mean for the environment in the UK. Will we be lik... Read More about Planet Pod: Swimming against the tide.

Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation (2020)
Journal Article

Healthy marine ecosystems provide a wide range of resources and services that support life on Earth and contribute to human wellbeing. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are accepted as an important tool for the restoration and maintenance of marine ecosy... Read More about Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation.

Fishing or fish farming: The conflict between a Crown grant of salmon fishings in the sea and other Crown rights in the sea in Scotland (2019)
Journal Article

There is a rising concern over the impact of aquaculture, particularly salmon farming, on the aquatic environment. Two Scottish parliamentary investigations have revealed concerns over the environmental impacts of the industry, particularly with rega... Read More about Fishing or fish farming: The conflict between a Crown grant of salmon fishings in the sea and other Crown rights in the sea in Scotland.

Taking the pulse of environmental and fisheries law: The common fisheries policy, the habitats directive, and Brexit (2019)
Journal Article

There has long been a tension between environmental regulation and the European Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), which has been addressed over time through progressive reform of the CFP. It is now recognised that Member States may comply with their obl... Read More about Taking the pulse of environmental and fisheries law: The common fisheries policy, the habitats directive, and Brexit.

The public trust doctrine in the sea - Bringing it back home (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This research was part of a PhD supervised by Dr Thomas Appleby and Dr Enda Hayes at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK, members of the International Water Security Network: www.watersecuritynetwork.org/uk-coastal-governance/... Read More about The public trust doctrine in the sea - Bringing it back home.

Sea of possibilities: Old and new uses of remote sensing data for the enforcement of the Ascension Island marine protected area (2018)
Journal Article

Very large marine protected areas are in danger of becoming 'paper parks'. This paper uses an interdisciplinary team to investigate the use of remote sensing technologies to provide sufficient evidence for effective fisheries management. It uses the... Read More about Sea of possibilities: Old and new uses of remote sensing data for the enforcement of the Ascension Island marine protected area.

UK coastal governance: Enhancing collaborative governance mechanisms for stewardship (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recent and future changes in UK marine legislation put the land-sea interface under the spotlight. The UK Coastal Governance research was launched in Autumn 2017 to review existing and new methods to support coastal governance in the UK. The purpose... Read More about UK coastal governance: Enhancing collaborative governance mechanisms for stewardship.

The ownership of inshore fisheries in Scotland: An opportunity for community ownership? (2018)
Journal Article

The Scottish Government has pledged to reform inshore fisheries by 2020, while the UK Government is in the process of reforming fisheries legislation with the Fisheries Bill, brought forward in anticipation of the departure of the UK from the EU. . A... Read More about The ownership of inshore fisheries in Scotland: An opportunity for community ownership?.

Fishing rights, property rights, human rights: The problem of legal lock-in in UK fisheries (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 The Author(s). Property rights are a widely advocated policy tool to encourage stewardship over a range of environmental goods. Despite the extent to which property rights are dependent upon law to work, economists rarely consider that propert... Read More about Fishing rights, property rights, human rights: The problem of legal lock-in in UK fisheries.

Creating marine reserves around the Isle of Arran – the Scottish experience (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A paper regarding the use of the public trust doctrine to establish the Lamlash Bay no take zone and the use of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 for the creation of the South Arran marine protected area

Brexit and the future of Scottish fisheries – key legal issues in a changing regulatory landscape (2017)
Journal Article

Brexit will overshadow the development of fisheries legislation for the next decade. The UK Government had developed no plan in the event of a “leave” vote for June’s advisory referendum and the months since the vote have been mired in politics and... Read More about Brexit and the future of Scottish fisheries – key legal issues in a changing regulatory landscape.

Response to European Union Select Commitee Brexit: Fisheries (2016)
Journal Article

Response by Dr Thomas Appleby – Associate Professor at the University of the West of England, member of the International Water Security Network and non-practising solicitor. Dr Appleby is also a trustee of one of the UK’s leading marine and fisheri... Read More about Response to European Union Select Commitee Brexit: Fisheries.

Assessing the significance of the economic impact of Marine Conservation Zones in the Irish Sea upon the fisheries sector and regional economy in Northern Ireland (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd This paper highlights the tension between advocacy for ‘Blue growth’ in maritime policy and efforts to safeguard future economic growth via the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. In 2015, policy-makers withdrew three of four pro... Read More about Assessing the significance of the economic impact of Marine Conservation Zones in the Irish Sea upon the fisheries sector and regional economy in Northern Ireland.

Brexit and the sea (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A presentation on the effects of Brexit and marine environmental legislation

Holding back the tide: An exploration of the possible legal basis for a claim of a right to be protected from flooding (2016)
Journal Article

As there is no general right to be defended from flooding, any measures taken to protect communities from flooding would appear to be motivated by political considerations. This article explores the possibilities open to a party seeking to benefit fr... Read More about Holding back the tide: An exploration of the possible legal basis for a claim of a right to be protected from flooding.

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.