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Indonesian Journal of International Law

2014

Precautionary principle in fisheries, concept of precautionary, fisheries governance

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Towards Principled Fisheries Governance Australian And Indonesian : Approaches And Challenges, Chomariyah Chomariyah Oct 2014

Towards Principled Fisheries Governance Australian And Indonesian : Approaches And Challenges, Chomariyah Chomariyah

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The principled fisheries governance coexist two concepts under the precautionary principle. The first one, based on the strengthening of the concept of environmental protection, aims to promote a prevention proportional to the potential risks. The second one looks for the eradication of risks and it may even require the ‘‘proof demand’’ of innocuousness. Implementation of the precautionary principle in the fishing sector became established as a reaction in general situation of world fish stocks to guarantee the sustainability of the exploitations. This paper tries to stress the implementation of the precautionary principle in Australia’s practice to application in Indonesia’ legal …