Volume 33, Number 3

Articles

Challenging the Right to Fish in a Fast-Changing Ocean

Cassandra M. Brooks, Stanford University, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources
cbrooks1@stanford.edu
John B. Weller
Kristina Gjerde, IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme
U. Rashid Sumaila, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Jeff Ardron, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Natalie C. Ban, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria
David Freestone, Sargasso Sea Alliance; Visiting Scholar, George Washington University Law School
Katherine Seto, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
Sebastian Unger, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Daniel P. Costa, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kara Fisher, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University
Larry Crowder, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University
Patrick Halpin, Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Andre Boustany, Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and its 1995 implementing agreement for highly migratory and straddling fish stocks (the UN Fish Stocks Agreement) articulate the need for conservation of high seas marine living resources and precautionary ecosystem-based management. Unfortunately, the underlying historical paradigm in the high seas is the "right to fish," without adhering to the broader conservation and environmental obligations on which those rights depend. Read more about Challenging the Right to Fish in a Fast-Changing Ocean

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The FDA’s Continuing Incapacity on Livestock Antibiotics

Lisa Heinzerling, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
heinzerl@law.georgetown.edu

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently recommitted itself to its policy of addressing the profligate use of antibiotics in livestock by enlisting the voluntary participation of the drug companies that make the antibiotics. Two documents issued in December 2013 reveal the details of the Agency’s current plans. The first is a final guidance document describing the FDA’s process for handling drug sponsors’ voluntary efforts to phase out certain uses of antibiotics in animal feed and water and to bring the remaining uses under the oversight of a veterinarian. Read more about The FDA’s Continuing Incapacity on Livestock Antibiotics

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It All Adds Up: Enhancing Ocean Health by Improving Cumulative Impacts Analyses in Environmental Review Documents

Erin E. Prahler, Center for Ocean Solutions
Sarah M. Reiter, Center for Ocean Solutions
Meredith Bennet, Center for Ocean Solutions
meredithebennett@gmail.com
Ashley L. Erickson, Center for Ocean Solutions
Molly Loughney Melius, Center for Ocean Solutions
Margaret R. Caldwell, Center for Ocean Solutions

Coastal and marine ecosystems provide a variety of benefits, including seafood, transportation of goods, recreation and energy, employment, and well being for human communities. However, human activities—ranging from sea-based activities such as fishing, aquaculture, and shipping to land-based activities such as development, agriculture, and mining—are pervasive and are escalating pressure on marine species and ecosystems. Read more about It All Adds Up: Enhancing Ocean Health by Improving Cumulative Impacts Analyses in Environmental Review Documents

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Notes

An Argument for WTO Oversight of Ecolabels

Hajin Kim, Stanford Law School, J.D.-Ph.D. Student (Ph.D. in Environment and Natural Resources)
hajin.kim@gmail.com

Environmental marketing and the use of ecolabels—product marks that indicate that the labeled product meets some environmental standard—have exploded in recent years. As of May 2014, Ecolabel Index counted 448 ecolabels in 197 countries. These labels theoretically enable the market to promote environmentally friendly production and consumption choices. Read more about An Argument for WTO Oversight of Ecolabels

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