Publications

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 ...

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...

Shun Kageyama, Abigayil Blandon, Robert Blasiak. 2025. Exploring the diverse values local people associate with marine protected areas and the implications for sustainable ocean management. Ocean & Coastal Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107523

Marine protected area (MPA) management requires local people's participation in order to deliver lasting ecological and social benefits . This is crucial to avoid “paper parks” and to encourage self-regulation and enhance social well-being among stakeholders. However, promoting sustained participation by diverse stakeholders is a challenge due to the diversity of ways in which they perceive the benefits of MPAs, and some o...

J.-B. Jouffray, J. Virdin, J. Bebbington, R. Blasiak, A. Dunchus, M. Lo Presti, J. Pare, D. Prosi, J. P. Quintero, R. Rosenthal, P. Tortora, D. Vermeer. 2025. Identifying and closing gaps in corporate reporting of ocean impacts. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-025-01631-8

As ocean industrialization accelerates, corporate transparency is increasingly seen as critical to improve governance, yet little is known about how firms disclose their impacts on marine ecosystems. This study addresses that gap through a content analysis of sustainability and annual reports from 75 of the largest companies across 8 sectors of the ocean economy. We examine which impacts are reported, how they are measured and...

Torres, A., Jouffray, J.-B., Van Lancker, V., Velpen, A.V., Liu, J.. 2025. Reducing sand mining's growing toll on marine biodiversity. One Earth. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101202

Xingxing Zhang, Hua Wu, Lan Wang Erlandsson, Zhaofei Liu, Hou Jiang, Zhaocai Wang, Liguang Jiang, Yizhu Zhu, Yaozhi Jiang, Zhijun Yao, Zhaoliang Li. 2025. Significant Shifts in Continental Precipitation Sources in the 21st Century. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025WR040157

Continental precipitation patterns have undergone profound changes in the 21st century, characterized by an increasing dominance of oceanic moisture sources over terrestrial ones. Using the WAM-2layers (Water Accounting Model-2 layers) moisture tracking model and ERA5 reanalysis data (1941–2023), we identified a significant upward trend in ocean-derived moisture, particularly from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, with an incre...

Yafei Wang, Yuxuan Ye, Robert J. Nicholls, Lennart Olsson, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Garry Peterson, Yao He, Manchun Li, Jie Fan, Murray Scown. 2025. Managing development choices is essential to reduce coastal flood risk in China. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02418-7