Dynamic Ocean Management: Integrating Scientific and Technological Capacity with Law, Policy, and Management

The ocean is a dynamic environment with ocean currents and winds moving surface waters across large distances. Many animals that live in the ocean, particularly in offshore regions, are mobile in space and in time, as are most human users. Spatial management responses have typically partitioned the ocean into different regions with fixed management boundaries. In some regions a particular activity may be forbidden, in another it may be permitted...