This page contains (i) documents and links of particular importance, and (ii) Australian documents which are otherwise difficult to locate.  Most have a science applied to ecosystem protection emphasis.

Scientists' international action:
Selected marine scientists.
MCBI consensus statement "troubled waters" 1998 (1605 signatures)
ICRS statement on destructive fishing practices  2000.
AAAS consensus statement on marine protected areas 2001.
Reykjavik declaration on responsible fisheries in the marine environment 2001.
AMSA statement on marine protected areas 2002.
Townsville Declaration on coral reef research and management 2002.
Coos Bay Statement of Concern to the UNGA on bottom trawling 2003.
Protect the pacific leatherback: letter to the United Nations, November 2004.
Protect deep sea corals: scientist's consensus statement 2004.
ICES scientific Advisory Committee on Fishery Management on high seas fishing 2004.
Royal Society report on ocean acidification  June 2005.
Pew Marine Conservation Fellows' fisheries conservation statement 2005.
Pew Marine Conservation Fellows' marine protected areas statement 2005.
International Coral Reef Initiative Statement to the UN on marine debris 2005.
Letter to the British Government  recommending a UNGA moratorium on bottom trawling 2005.
US scientists' consensus statement on ecologically-based management  2005. Anniversary report
Letters to the Australian Government on banning deep sea bottom trawling 2005, 2006.
Letter to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, USA, on drift-gill netting and longlining 2006.
Scientists' consensus letter: Tasmanian MPA selection process 2008.
AMSA Position paper on marine protected areas 2008.

Marine Links:
Australian marine organisations
International marine organisations.

1. Ocean governance:
1.7 Principles of ocean management;  Jon Nevill  2004  (html).
1.5 International agreements and initiatives: summary (Html); 1.6 more detail (MSWord)
1.4 International agreements: IISD reports from key meetings. (link)
1.3 Australian Legal Information Institute (international treaties, Australian legislation)
1.2 Reform overdue to ocean governance frameworks Jon Nevill 2006 (MSWord)
1.1 Shifting baselines, marine reserves, and Leopold's biotic ethic;  James Bohnsack 2003 (pdf).

2. Australian documents: (roughly chronological order)
2.27 Book review: Veron (2008) A reef in time: the Great Barrier Reef from beginning to end.
2.26 Recreational gill nets in Tasmania - an environmental disaster. Jon Bryan 2008. MS Word 3pp.
2.25 Benchmarking EBFM, precaution and adaptive management:
        2.25a South Australia's abalone fishery.  2.25b CCAMLR krill fishery .
        2.25c WA western rock lobster fishery.  2.25d Northern prawn trawl fishery
2.24 Benchmarks for precautionary fisheries management. 2008 Jon Nevill. MS Word. 9pp.
2.23 Benchmarks for ecosystem-based fisheries management. 2008 J.Nevill MS Word 5pp.
2.22 Benchmarks for adaptive management in fisheries. 2008 Jon Nevill, MS Word, 4pp.
2.21 Uncertainty in fisheries management: sources and consequences. 2008  Jon Nevill, 15pp.
2.20 The evolution of marine fisheries paradigms Jon Nevill, 2008, MS Word 14 pages.
2.19 Destructive fishing practices: definitions,   J.Nevill, 2007.
2.18 Risk assessment and precautionary reference points  Jon Nevill, 2006  MS Word.
2.17 Impacts of deep sea bottom trawling: Draft 25-p background paper;  2006;   Summary
                                                       PowerPoints: Gianni & Nevill 2006: 15 MB, Nevill 2007 5MB
                                                       Supporting material:  Palau draft resolution 2006. Mossop2007
2.16 Threats to marine biodiversity   Jon Nevill 2006 updated 2008 (MS Word).
2.15 Strengths and weaknesses of European Union marine protection programmes   Nevill 2006 ppt
2.14 CCAMLR and ecosystem based management;   Jon Nevill 2006, MS Word, 5pp.
2.13 The Australian Government's assessment of the South Australian abalone fishery.  Nevill  2005.
2.12 Environmental ethics and marine protected areas   Jon Nevill 2005, MS Word.
2.11 How large should marine protected area networks be?   Jon Nevill, 2005, MS Word.
2.10 The impact of spearfishing   Jon Nevill,  2005,  html file introducing a MS Word, 31pp. ppt
2.9 The precautionary principle in Australian marine management   Jon Nevill 2005, MS Word.
2.8 Marine protected areas: model position statement   Jon Nevill, MS Word, 2005, 4 pages.
2.7 Marine protected areas: Botsford et al. 2003: principles for the design of marine reserves.
2.6 Marine protected area management principles, IUCN 2000. Pamphlet, pdf.
2.5 Marine protected area design principles  draft - comments invited;   Jon Nevill, 2004, html file.
2.4 Top-down and bottom-up management approaches: a paper arguing for a blend of both html 04
2.3 Australia's Guidelines for the Ecologically Sustainable Management of Fisheries: a critique.
2.2 Australian beach shark meshing program in need of urgent review  John Paxton 2003 - (html).
2.1 The development of Australia's protected area network  Jon Nevill 2002 (MS Word).

Antarctica:
Quarantine policy reform; Amanda Sichter August 2004.

Library:  key references   fisheries glossary

My current PhD project:
Australia's commitment to the conservation of marine biodiversity.

News: Australian marine biodiversity news (discontinued: last updated November  2006). 
           Global marine biodiversity: see Pew SeaSpan, Eurekalert and MPA News

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Who hears the fishes when they cry? It will not be forgotten by some memory that we were contemporaries.  Henry David Thoreau, 1849.

We must place biodiversity conservation at the center of ocean governance.
Sylvia Earle & Dan Laffoley, 2006.