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| Governance of Territorial Waters： Reform of EU’s Common Fisheries Policy and the Effect |
| Liu Mingzhou |
| School of Politics and International Studies， Central China Normal University， Wuhan 430079 |
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Abstract The Common Fisheries Policy is the main part of EU’s governance of territorial waters. However， the policy was founded on the wrong cognition from its beginning. Some thoughts in agricultural policy were applied to the Common Fisheries Policy without considering the feature of limited fishery resources. The practice of equal access and structure policy gradually highlighted the over-fishing problem. As a response， decision makers put forward the objective of fishery conservation when the Common Fisheries Policy was formally introduced. However， the practice of equal access and structure policy deviated the objective from the approach of the Common Fisheries Policy. Most critics believe the Common Fisheries Policy failed， but the institutional defection of the policy has been gradually resolved since the reform in 2002. The distinctiveness of the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy is that it is the original defection of the institution in the European integration that has to been adjusted henceforth. One professional issue fails to obtain the ideal results due to too much political compromise.
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Received: 20 November 2018
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2018, Vol. 57 
