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A Review of Conservation Trust Funds for Sustainable Marine Resources Management: Conditions for Success

Conservation Trust Funds (CTFs) are a source of sustainable financing for long-term biodiversity conservation, in particular for protected areas management.

June 2014PublicationFisheries, Economics

A sustainable future for fisheries: how fiscal policy can be used to achieve SDG 14

Last year, governments adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at ushering in a new era of sustainable development where ‘no one is left behind.’ They include a specific goal — SDG 14 — to conserve and sustainably use the ocea

December 2016PublicationPolicy and planning, Fisheries
A fish market in Vĩnh Trường, Vietnam. More than 300 million people are directly or indirectly employed by the fisheries sector, and must be addressed by the oceans SDG (Photo: Khánh Hmoong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

A sustainable ocean by 2030

A Sustainable Development Goal for oceans, seas and marine resources is a significant milestone, but how will it be financed and who will benefit?
14 September 2015 BlogFisheries, Sustainable markets
Fishermen hauling in a net

Accounting for small-scale fisheries and the ocean

As the interest in accounting for ocean economies grows, we need to ensure vulnerable small-scale fishers and communities do not continue to be left behind
5 August 2019ProjectFisheries, Natural resource management, Water
A man casting a net

Achieving transformational change for the ocean

Making progress on Sustainable Development Goal 14 – life below water – is a complex and increasingly urgent challenge. A new handbook offers practical guidance on monitoring, evaluation and learning for SDG14, and emphasises the importance of using systems thinking
11 June 2019 BlogBiodiversity, Fisheries, Water
Fishing the ocean

Action for an ocean for all

From coastal waters to the remote high seas: rethinking the blue economy to be inclusive, sustainable, fair and for everyone
25 March 2019Long readFisheries, Sustainable markets

Amazonian Fisheries: Socio economic issues and management implications

Over the last three decades, the demand for fish in the Amazon basin has greatly increased due to population growth in the main cities of the region.

January 1999PublicationFisheries
A rock covered in barnacles

An indivisible whole: negotiating the fate of the ocean

Critical differences of opinion over how, or even whether, the high seas should be subject to a governance regime led to sluggish progress at times at international negotiations in New York recently. Essam Yassin Mohammed spells out how he thinks things need to change
5 September 2019 BlogFisheries, Governance

Balancing carrots and sticks: incentives for sustainable hilsa fishery management in Bangladesh

Fisheries play an important role in meeting global food demands. But coastal fisheries are in decline due to overfishing – and fisheries management in developing world countries is also complicated by significant poverty levels.

April 2016PublicationFisheries, Economics
Fishermen collecting the day's catch

Bangladesh: protecting the Hilsa from overfishing

Innovative ways to tackle overfishing problems and allow threatened hilsa fish stocks in Bangladesh to recover were devised by IIED and partners
26 June 2013ProjectFisheries

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