Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-262) and index.

Preliminary Material / Emma Witbooi -- Conceptual Lenses Introduction / Emma Witbooi -- The Challenge of Sustainability in Fisheries / Emma Witbooi -- Regulating Fisheries Towards Sustainability / Emma Witbooi -- Identifying the Ties that Bind West African States and the EU / Emma Witbooi -- Fisheries Regulation in the EU Sustainability and Integration in the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy / Emma Witbooi -- The Promotion of Sustainability in EU Fishing in Developing Third Country Waters / Emma Witbooi -- Case Study: Agreements in Practice Senegal’s Marine Fisheries / Emma Witbooi -- EU-Senegalese Fisheries Relations: The 2002–2006 Agreement / Emma Witbooi -- Conclusions / Emma Witbooi -- Bibliography / Emma Witbooi -- Appendix Map of the book / Emma Witbooi -- Index / Emma Witbooi.

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Marine living resources are currently under severe threat from unsustainable use. International law urges a precautionary approach in the use of remaining fish stocks, necessitating rational domestic management of coastal fisheries and requiring foreign nations accessing these stocks to cooperate to this end. The manner in which bilateral fishing relations between the EU and various West African states have historically played out, however, has not followed this route. This book is a legal study of these relations from an inter-disciplinary and contextual perspective with particular reference to sustainability questions using three broad conceptual lenses: common resource management, integration towards sustainable development and the colonial legacy to interrogate the extent to which these interactions operated as legal instruments of sustainability.