Undermining the Integrated Maritime Policy

摘要: The European Union's Integrated Maritime Policy is intended in part to co-ordinate sectoral policies, achieve joined-up thinking and action overcome the inconsistency between policy approaches that has led degradation of seas. An integrated governance would be relatively straight-forward if different interests actors were operating on basis shared values, but they are not. While fisheries sector, whether large or small-scale, driven by a commercial imperative which tends towards greatest extraction resource possible, environmentalists champion removal all human impacts, other than redress activity, as optimum state for ecosystem. However, impediment an approach failure subject EU's Common Fisheries objectives Policy. Instead, decisions concerning will continue made accordance with Regulation demands exploitation fragile resource. Attention needs given how EU acquire values beyond immediate economic benefit so it may cohere aid regeneration