Yudu - Green Economy - Fisheries

Towards a green economy Acknowledgements

Chapter Coordinating Author: Dr Rashid Sumaila, Director, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Moustapha Kamal Gueye of UNEP managed the chapter, including the handling of peer reviews, interacting with the coordinating author on revisions, conducting supplementary research and bringing the chapter to final production.

The lead authors who contributed technical background papers and other material for this chapter were Andrea M. Bassi, John P. Ansah and Zhuohua Tan, Millennium Institure, USA; Andrew J Dyck, University of British Columbia, Canada; Lone Grønbæk Kronbak,

University of Southern Denmark,

Denmark; Ling Huang, University of British Columbia, Canada; Mahamudu Bawumia, Oxford University and formerly Bank of Ghana, Ghana; Gordon Munro, University of British Columbia, Canada; Ragnar Arnason, University of Iceland, Iceland; Niels Vestergaard, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark; Rögnvaldur Hannesson, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway; Ratana Chuenpagdee, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada and Coastal and Ocean Management Centre, Thailand; Tony Charles, Saint Mary’s University, Canada; and William Cheung, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.

The chapter benefited from additional contributions from Andres Cisneros-Montemayor, University of British Columbia, Canada; Ana Lucía Iturriza, ILO; Vicky Lam, University of British

Columbia, Canada; Daniel Pauly, UBC Fisheries Centre; Wilf Swartz, University of British Columbia, Canada; Lydia Teh, University of British Columbia, Canada; David Schorr, World Wide Fund For Nature; Reg Watson, UBC Fisheries Centre; and Dirk Zeller, University of British Columbia, Canada.

We would to thank fisheries experts and practitioners who peer reviewed and provided substantive comments and suggestions on the draft chapter: Åsmund Bjordal, Institute of Marine Research, Norway; Elisa Guillermina Calvo, Department of Fishery Economics, Ministry of Agriculture of Argentina, Argentina; John M. Conrad, Cornell University, USA; Ray Hilborn, University of Washington, USA; Cornelia E. Nauen, European Commission, DG Research; Jake Rice, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada; and Andrew A. Rosenberg, Conservation International.

The following colleagues provided valuable substantive review and comments: Rolf Willmann, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization; Brand Wagner, International Labour Organization; Marceil Yeater, Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES); Anja von Moltke, UNEP; Joseph Alcamo, UNEP; Charles Arden-Clarke, UNEP; Elizabeth Khaka, UNEP; James Lomax, UNEP; and Robert Wabunoha, UNEP.

We are particularly grateful to Jacqueline Alder, Head, Marine and Coastal Environment Branch, UNEP Division of Environmental Policy Implementation, for guidance, substantive review and support throughout the project.