Publications

Mateja Nenadović, Alfredo Giron, Timothy Frawley, Adrian Munguia‐Vega, Kara E. Pellowe, Erica Ferrer, David Gill, Blanca González‐Mon, Andrew F. Johnson, Emilie Lindkvist, Fiorenza Micheli, Amy H. Weaver, Octavio Aburto, Ana Laura Flores‐Morales, Fiona Gladstone, Elizabeth Mansfield, Guido Marinone, Alejandro Parés‐Sierra, Anastasia Quintana, Jessica Reilly Moman, Salvador Rodriguez Van Dyck, Maja Schlueter, Jorge Torre, Björn Vollan, Heather M. Leslie, Xavier Basurto. 2026. Governance Arrangements That Fit Social‐Ecological Context Are Associated With Fishery Sustainability. Fish and Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.70060

In many parts of the world, natural resources are primarily managed by governance arrangements at the local level. Those arrangements range from collective, such as cooperatives and associations, to individualistic, such as patrons and owner-operators. A key question is how such arrangements influence resource use and associated social and ecological outcomes. We hypothesize that sustainable resource use is not associated with...

Ricarda Winkelmann, Julius Garbe, Jonathan F. Donges, Torsten Albrecht. 2026. Mapping tipping risks from Antarctic ice basins under global warming. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02554-0

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is subject to amplifying feedbacks which can accelerate ice loss and lead to effectively irreversible retreat. We here analyse the distinct nature and risk of long-term ice loss for each individual drainage basin under different levels of warming. Depending on topographic and climatic conditions, we find that ice loss in some basins unfolds gradually with warming, whereas other basins are characterized ...

Defeo, O., Franco, B.C., Piola, A.R., Buratti, C.C., Cardoso, L.G., Cortés, F., Gianelli, I., Giorgini, M., Jorge-Romero, G., Lercari, D., Meerhoff, E., Ortega, L., Perez, J.A.A., Prandoni, N., Sant'Ana, R.. 2025. Facing oceanographic, fisheries, and governance hotspots: Scientific evidence and policy implications from the southwest South Atlantic Ocean. Marine Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106584

The southwest South Atlantic Ocean (SWAO) is a highly dynamic region where subtropical and subantarctic waters converge, making it one of the world's most productive marine areas. The SWAO is also one of the world’s most intense marine hotspots, with rising sea surface temperatures and climate-induced shifts in species distribution posing significant challenges. This paper investigates long-term trends in key fishery resou...

Gabrielle Carmine, Melissa R Cronin, Carden Barkley, Chelsea L Tuohy, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Henrik Österblom, Jennifer Jacquet, Patrick N Halpin. 2025. An expanded evaluation of global fisheries management organizations on the high seas. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae1b1e

The high seas comprise nearly half the Earth’s surface and the 2023 United Nations Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction agreement renewed efforts to better manage this vast area. Regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) are tasked with a UN dual-mandate to ensure the (1) long-term conservation of fish stocks and their associated ecosystems while managing the (2) sustainable use of high seas fisheries. Building ...

Angela Guerrero, Daniel Cruz Lopez. 2025. Social dimensions of agricultural practice adoption for Great Barrier Reef water quality. QUT ePrints. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/259841/

Jim Leape, Bronwen Golder, Richard Barnes, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Dawn Borg-Costanzi, Jessica L Decker Sparks, Jaeyoon Park, Robert Blasiak, Elizabeth R Selig, Shinnosuke Nakayama, Colette C.C. Wabnitz. 2025. Leveraging port state measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads1592

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing threatens the sustainability of fisheries and communities dependent on them. The Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) is a key tool for combatting IUU fishing by foreign fleets, requiring standardized inspections, information sharing, and port denial. Using satellite data, we characterized how PSMA has affected high seas vessel behavior and identify opportunities to strengthen...

Colette C.C. Wabnitz, Gabriel Reygondeau, Bianca Silva Santos, Juliano Palacios-Abrantes, Thomas Lukas Frölicher, William W. L. Cheung, U. Rashid Sumaila. 2025. Climate change drives shifts in straddling fish stocks in the world’s ocean. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adq5976

Climate-induced distribution changes are particularly challenging for fisheries targeting fish populations shared between exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the high seas, known as straddling stocks. Here, we combine multiple datasets and ecosystem modeling to identify the presence of straddling stocks worldwide and consider the management implications of climate change–driven shifts. We identify 347 straddling stocks across ...

Malin Jonell, Abigayil Blandon, Julia Maria Charlotte Feine, Sofia Käll. 2025. Broadening the sustainable seafood movement — systemic and enabling approaches to transform blue food. Environmental Research: Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1088/2976-601x/adfd62

The global appetite for environmentally sustainable and just seafood is expected to grow in coming decades. However, the sustainable seafood movement, including private governance tools like certifications and recommendation lists has yet to transform fisheries and aquaculture on a large scale. At the same time, alternative voluntary governance approaches have taken shape, each aiming to guide production and consumption toward...

Abigayil Blandon, Malin Jonell, Hiroe Ishihara, Aiora Zabala. 2025. What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden? Ambio. Pages 1010–1025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-024-02122-4

“Sustainability” can mean different prioritisations of society, environment and economy to different people. As one of the largest globally traded food commodities, for seafood, these differences could have large implications. The study captures different understandings of “sustainable seafood” among 29 key actors along the seafood supply chain—government, NGOs, industry bodies, retailers and producers—using a novel cross-coun...

Hana Matsubara, Abigayil Blandon, Mary Tomita, Sonia Batten, Sanae Chiba, Tetsuo Fujii, Daisuke Hasegawa, Marloes Kraan, Doug Lipton, L Richard Little, Alondra Sofia Rodriguez Buelna, Mitsutaku Makino. 2025. Shaping the future of marine socio-ecological systems science: combining interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches and knowledge co-creation with diverse stakeholders. ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaf059

Following the first symposium held in Brest, France, in 2016, the second Marine Socio-Ecological Systems Symposium (MSEAS) was held in Yokohama, Japan, in 2024, after 4 years of postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, interdisciplinary efforts to inform ocean governance using the Social-Ecological System (SES) approach was highlighted as highly necessary. MSEAS 2024 emphasized the combination of interdisciplinary a...