Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2010 Mar;60(3):323-33. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2009.12.023. Epub 2010 Feb 12.
The European Union's Integrated Maritime Policy is intended in part to co-ordinate sectoral policies, to achieve joined-up thinking and action and overcome the inconsistency between policy approaches that has led to the degradation of European seas. An integrated governance would be relatively straight-forward if the different interests and actors were operating on the basis of shared values, but they are not. While the fisheries sector, whether large or small-scale, is driven by a commercial imperative which tends towards the greatest extraction of the resource possible, environmentalists would champion the removal of all human impacts, other than redress activity, as the optimum state for the ecosystem. However, the greatest impediment to an integrated approach is the failure to subject the EU's Common Fisheries Policy to the objectives of the Integrated Maritime Policy. Instead, all decisions concerning fisheries will continue to be made in accordance with the Fisheries Regulation which demands exploitation of the fragile resource. Attention needs to be given to how EU fisheries policy is to acquire values beyond that of commercial extraction for immediate economic benefit so that it may cohere with objectives of the Integrated Maritime Policy and aid the regeneration of the seas.
欧盟的综合海洋政策旨在部分协调部门政策，实现统筹思考和行动，并克服导致欧洲海域退化的政策方法之间的不一致性。如果不同的利益相关者和行为者在共同价值观的基础上运作，那么综合治理将相对简单，但事实并非如此。渔业部门，无论是大规模还是小规模，都受到商业利益的驱动，这种商业利益倾向于尽可能地提取资源，而环保主义者则主张除纠正活动外，消除所有对生态系统的人为影响，是生态系统的最佳状态。然而，对综合方法的最大阻碍是未能使欧盟的共同渔业政策服从于综合海洋政策的目标。相反，所有有关渔业的决定将继续根据渔业法规作出，该法规要求开发脆弱的资源。需要关注的是，欧盟渔业政策如何获得超越商业开采的即时经济利益的价值，以便与综合海洋政策的目标保持一致，并有助于海洋的再生。
