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- Title
DAMAGE TO FISHERIES BY DAMS: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL WATER LAW AND INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES LAW.
- Authors
Kibel, Paul Stanton
- Abstract
There is a complex interplay between international water law and international fisheries law when it comes to the impact on fisheries of the construction and operation of on-stream dams. Understanding this interplay requires recognition of the effects of on-stream dams on fisheries, aquatic habitat, and fishing-dependent communities; identification of the upstream/downstream nation rights under international water law and international fisheries law pertaining to the impoundment and release of water from on-stream dams on waterways where fisheries are present; international environmental impact assessment obligations relating to the construction and operation of on-stream dams; and the relation of on-stream hydro-electric dams to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy production. Taken together, this body of international law provides a framework for advocating and insisting that on- stream dams in transboundary watersheds should be constructed and operated in a manner that minimizes adverse impacts on fisheries and contributes to fishery restoration.
- Subjects
FISHERIES; DAMS; TRANSBOUNDARY waters; FISHERY laws; WATERSHEDS; LAW
- Publication
UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs, 2017, Vol 21, Issue 2, p121
- ISSN
1089-2605
- Publication type
Article