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{"title":"Sand extraction discourses in marine governance: the Dutch North Sea case.","authors":"Maria Pafi, Espen Urselmann, Hilde Toonen","doi":"10.1007/s40152-025-00464-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40152-025-00464-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increasing demand for sand has led to a shift from inland to marine extraction. Despite receiving little attention in marine policy and MSP discussions, sand extraction remains embedded within established institutional frameworks due to society's growing reliance on it. This creates a paradox in which sand extraction is concurrently under-discussed and institutionally supported, potentially creating gaps in addressing its socio-ecological consequences. This paper explores policy discourses of sand extraction that exist across the marine policy and MSP domain. We focus on the Dutch North Sea context, where both MSP and sand extraction are well-established within marine governance, yet the country's sustainability visions may seemingly conflict with extractive practices. We identify four distinct discourses, with the most influential showing that sand extraction draws legitimacy from associations with national security, economic growth and climate adaptation. While sustainability concerns are focused on managing spatial competitions amongst different marine sectors, we find openings for change at the interplay of growing environmental impact concerns and uncertainties about the long-term impacts of sand extraction, which ultimately bring forward new knowledge questions and actor coalitions. Societal concerns and public participation, however, remain constrained within the dominant discourse of public interest in coastal safety. This discursive dynamic ultimately reinforces extractive industries as beneficial to the public good. We conclude that opportunities for improvement exist, but established discourses limit the extent of change.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"25 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13132896/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147824472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond the surface: diagnosing the origins of institutional barriers in the governance of floating offshore wind.","authors":"Lindsey West, Christina Kelly, Wesley Flannery","doi":"10.1007/s40152-026-00499-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40152-026-00499-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The expansion of floating offshore wind in the UK's Celtic Sea presents a major opportunity to accelerate the low-carbon transition while supporting regional economic development. However, its implementation is unfolding within a fragmented governance landscape, which constrains the development of new governance approaches that can deliver on multiple policy objectives, including net-zero, nature recovery, and economic growth. Fragmentation is a well-documented feature of marine governance systems and is commonly associated with institutional barriers such as path dependency, policy layering, and institutional inertia. However, few studies have examined the underlying causes of these barriers, meaning that resulting recommendations often fail to tackle foundational institutional design issues. Drawing on institutional theory and using a diagnostic analytical approach, this study identifies multiple institutional barriers that hinder the development of floating wind in the Celtic Sea. The barriers are traced to underlying institutional attributes, including those that regulate actor roles and responsibilities, structure social networks, and distribute power and authority. The paper concludes that the governance challenges observed in the UK's Celtic Sea arise from systemic and synergistic institutional barriers rather than as a result of isolated policy failures. Therefore, overcoming institutional barriers demands a reconfiguration of marine governance arrangements to enhance reflexivity, adaptability, and collaborative learning across governance scales and policy domains. By linking the emergence of institutional barriers to underlying institutional attributes, the paper contributes to the literature on institutional dynamics in marine governance and highlights the need for new marine governance arrangements that can deliver a coordinated and holistic approach to marine policy and support a just and equitable transition to a low-carbon society.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40152-026-00499-4.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"25 3","pages":"40"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13320046/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148377510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Food, power and agency: revealing local post-harvest fisheries practices to improve food access from small-scale fisheries in coastal Kenya.","authors":"Antonio Allegretti, Johnstone O Omukoto, Christina C Hicks","doi":"10.1007/s40152-025-00402-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40152-025-00402-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article proposes the case of Kenyan coastal fisheries as a potentially crucial reservoir of food-related benefits for the marginalised and those living in poverty, but where a food-centred lens or approach is seldom mainstreamed in local and national governance. Borrowing insights from post-structuralist marine social sciences, this article presents an ethnographic account of grassroots practices in-the-making such as handling, sorting, and allocating fish once caught, and how these practices lead to local categorisations and classifications of fish. This sort of evidence and knowledge around local categorisations and classifications of fish spotlights the importance of considering the post-harvest sector (as opposed to the activity of fishing alone), that is, how the use of catch determines access through micro relations of power and agency. Through the analysis of two different locations of Watamu and Shimoni in terms of the fisheries economy and overall development, the analysis of these categories and classifications highlights the necessity to account for a fairer access and distribution rather than solely production (of fish) that is overly market-oriented.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"24 1","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11779750/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143082386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neither private nor new: unpacking narratives of 'ocean privatisation'.","authors":"Carlo Ceglia, Kimberley Peters, Philip Steinberg","doi":"10.1007/s40152-025-00416-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40152-025-00416-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Joining others who call attention to the ways in which the ocean, its spaces, and its resources are being commodified, enclosed, and extracted in ways that benefit some at the expense of others, this paper offers a synthesis and review, echoing and extending the cautions being posited around ocean privatisation discourses and their tendencies toward simplistic conceptualisations and presentist thinking that all too often limit critical analysis. Therefore, this paper synthesises and analyses existing literature on the institutions and processes through which the 'privatisation' of the ocean has been, and is being, implemented, leading to two important points. First, it is showed how privatisation processes are often more complex than the word suggests. Privatisation is anything but 'private'. The enclosure, appropriation, and rationalisation of space, resources, knowledge, and governance in the marine domain are occurring in institutional matrices where private actors operate in an array of relationships <i>with the state</i> (in its many, multiple guises), as well as non-governmental, and inter-governmental actors. Secondly, when viewing privatisation with a sensitivity to the array of institutions and actors involved, it is vital to recognise that what passes for a more recent capitalist tendency in the ocean realm rather continues long-standing, historical trajectories of violent extraction (which are equally complex in configuration). Expanding on these critiques, this paper turns to longstanding traditions that offer ways of thinking <i>beyond</i> privatisation and that engage the ocean not as a space of enclosure and extraction but as a space of relationality and livelihoods.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"24 2","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11914340/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143665487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The stabilization and destabilization of marine carbon observations: Co-producing knowledge in murky waters.","authors":"Ramona Haegele","doi":"10.1007/s40152-025-00435-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40152-025-00435-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the complexities of marine carbon observations by exploring how non-humans and humans, including: scientists, floats, and geopolitics, (de-)stabilize these processes. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil and Germany, the study uses Karen Barad's (2007) concept of agential realism to understand how these diverse actors are mutually co-producing knowledge on marine carbon. Instead of viewing entities as separate, intra-action emphasizes their co-constitution. Through theme-based coding, the analysis identifies both stabilizing and destabilizing forces in marine carbon observations. Stabilizing forces include the dedication of scientists, two-way communication between floats and humans, and the global accessibility of data on marine carbon observations. In contrast, destabilizing forces involve climate change's impact on data collection and quality, funding shortages, and national borders. The research highlights how geopolitical and scientific practices are deeply dynamic and often overlooked in discussions of marine carbon observations. By following non-humans and humans and incorporating diverse perspectives from the sea and land, the study provides new insights into the (un-)becoming of marine carbon observations, emphasizing the importance of the more-than-human in shaping knowledge production practices. This work underscores the value of thinking with Science and Technology Studies and new materialism about marine environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"24 3","pages":"48"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12263770/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144661220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blue boats in deep waters: how aspects of IUU policy impact Vietnamese fish workers.","authors":"Georgina Alonso,&nbsp;Melissa Marschke","doi":"10.1007/s40152-023-00303-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00303-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) polices in the Asia-Pacific region are impacting Vietnamese blue boats. We examine several aspects of IUU policy, including the effects of hardening marine borders in the Southeast Asian region and the increased surveillance of Vietnamese blue boats, to understand how such policies impact blue boat owners, captains, and workers. We find that under increased surveillance, fishers face greater precarity as they become subject to the legal and political actions of multiple states. When blue boats are caught outside Vietnamese waters, boat owners, captains, and workers face significant, albeit differentiated, livelihood challenges. We argue that policies designed to stop IUU or unsustainable fishing should also proactively address working conditions on blue boats; if not, policies may unwittingly cause problems for those directly involved in the industry, with hired workers facing particular hardships. For these reasons, Vietnam's IUU yellow card can also be seen as an opportunity for fisheries labor reforms.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"22 2","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10072036/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9627980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intertwined realities - hybrid institutions in the Peruvian fisheries and aquaculture sectors.","authors":"Gerardo H Damonte,&nbsp;Lotta C Kluger,&nbsp;Isabel E Gonzales","doi":"10.1007/s40152-023-00309-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00309-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Following pro-market policies, the Peruvian state has aimed to regulate profitable fisheries and aquaculture activities in order to increase their production. However, informal and illegal activities not only persist but are also interlinked with formal practices and frameworks, creating intertwined realities in fostering processes of institutional hybridization. This article analyses the (re)production of informal and illegal activities by explaining the formation of hybrid institutional entanglements in the Peruvian anchoveta (<i>Engraulis ringens</i>) fishery in Pisco and the Peruvian bay scallop (<i>Argopecten purpuratus</i>) aquaculture industry in Sechura. It argues that state policies to promote industrial fisheries and entrepreneurial aquaculture for the global market coupled with limited interest in supporting small-scale fisheries and aquaculture activities have resulted in processes of institutional hybridization. Within these processes, social actors resist and accommodate formal regulatory frameworks to suit their respective needs, while intertwining formal and informal practices and institutional arrangements, based on their political leverage or ability to produce hybrid institutional entanglements in a context where regulation is limited and state authority is negotiated. Under these forms of hybrid governance, the article shows that interactions between state and non-state actors do not lead to collaborations for solving problems but to the persistence of sustainability problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"22 2","pages":"20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10150677/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9690459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Small fish consumption in rural Myanmar.","authors":"Quennie Vi Rizaldo,&nbsp;Wae Win Khaing,&nbsp;Ben Belton","doi":"10.1007/s40152-023-00304-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00304-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Assessments of fish consumption are based primarily on data from household surveys that do not capture information on the intra-household distribution of the size or species of fish consumed. Such studies can yield partial or misleading information about the adequacy of aquatic food consumption. We address this gap by focusing on individual-level fish consumption within the household, using data from a survey conducted in a rural part of the Ayeyarwady Region in Myanmar-an area with high levels of fish consumption. We disaggregate fish consumption by the gender of household members and by the quantity, species, and size of fish eaten, estimating quantities of fish consumed using models for reference, to identify gendered patterns of fish consumption at the intrahousehold level. We find higher average levels of fish consumption than reported in previous consumption surveys in Myanmar. Moreover, small fish are consumed more frequently than larger-sized fish. The popularity of small fish species highlights the continued reliance of survey respondents on wild fish stocks, despite all surveyed households also practicing small-scale aquaculture. The average consumption of fresh fish reported by women was 36% lower than that reported by men. Men were more likely to eat large fish species, but women ate more small fish, which may contain higher levels of micronutrients vital for addressing nutrient deficiencies.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"22 2","pages":"16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10113121/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10008986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humor, transparency, and the management of distrust among business rivals: a case study of berthing meetings at the Port of Tema in Ghana.","authors":"Martin Arvad Nicolaisen,&nbsp;Annette Skovsted Hansen","doi":"10.1007/s40152-023-00298-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-023-00298-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article builds on rich empirical data following our unexpected discovery of a local practice to circumvent a stressful and counterproductive work environment due to distrust at the Port of Tema in Ghana. Using theoretical work on networks, trust, and humor, as well as extensive ethnographic fieldwork, we found that the humorous atmosphere at the regularly held physical berthing meetings fosters a sense of community, which enables competing professions, private companies, and public institutions to manage their mutual distrust. In an environment where trust among competitors is unrealistic, we argue that the objective of the performance of humor and transparency at the physical berthing meetings is the management of distrust rather than the creation of trust. The meetings have, gradually, grown to serve as a pragmatic local stakeholder adaptation to the challenges posed by universally perceived politicized, opaque, and corrupt business practices at the Port of Tema and beyond. In conclusion, we posit that our empirical findings allow us to identify the potential of and gaps in theories about trust and humor in understanding the dynamics of coping strategies among competitors in business settings that are characterized by unethical practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"22 2","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9990062/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9461237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Technological transformation and changing social relations in the ring seine fishery of Kerala, India.","authors":"Nikita Gopal,&nbsp;Holly M Hapke,&nbsp;Leela Edwin","doi":"10.1007/s40152-023-00313-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40152-023-00313-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Across the Global South, commercial development and technological innovations are transforming fish food systems in ways that significantly impact the livelihoods of small-scale producers and the food security of the poor. A crucial but understudied aspect of such transformations is the social relations in which fish food systems are embedded. Food system transformations change power relations and rework gendered economic roles and divisions of labour in ways that often marginalise women and other vulnerable groups. In this paper, we draw on feminist studies of gender and technology and feminist commodity chain analysis to investigate the impact of technological transformation on social relations in the ring seine fishery of Kerala, India. Kerala's ring seine fishery specifically targets small pelagics like sardine, mackerel, and anchovies, which have been identified as important to the food security and nutrition of the poor. Since the mid-1980s, when the ring seine was first introduced to enable small-scale fishers to compete with mechanised trawlers, these fishing units have expanded both in terms of numbers and in size, largely as a result of locally-driven technological innovation and adaptation. Though traditional arrangements of labour deployment and wage sharing have remained, rising competition and differentiation between fishermen have ensued. At the same time, changes in processing, distribution, and trade have reworked women's economic roles and position in the fishery, and questions about long-term profitability and sustainability have necessitated interventions in governance at various levels. Tracing the trajectory of technological innovation and changing social relations through the value chain, we assessed the gendered implications of fish food system transformations for livelihoods. We found that the increase in dimensions of the new gear increased both investments and operational costs of the fishing units rendering several of them uneconomical. Time-tested social norms have also changed as competition increased, which is much more pronounced between the smaller and larger fishing vessels. The traditional wage sharing pattern still remains ensuring income security for fishermen who cannot find work as crew on these fishing vessels. Women, however, have been most affected by the changes as they no longer are able to access the fish resource as earlier for engaging in post-harvest activities, such as marketing and fish drying.</p>","PeriodicalId":74110,"journal":{"name":"Maritime studies : MAST","volume":"22 2","pages":"26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10224658/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9570264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}