Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries

Showing how big-picture patterns can help overcome the failures of conventional management, this book is ideal for students, researchers and professionals involved with marine fisheries. It explores not only the current practice of the ecosystem approach to fisheries management but also its critical importance to even larger perspectives. The first section gives a valuable overview of how more and more of the complexity of real-world systems is being recognized and involved in the management of fisheries around the world. The second section then demonstrates how important aspects of real-world systems, involving population dynamics, evolution and behavior, remain to be taken into account completely. This section also shows how we must change the way we think about our involvement in, and the complexity of, marine ecosystems. The final chapters consider how, with the use of carefully chosen macroecological patterns, we can take important steps towards more holistic management of marine fisheries.

Spis treści:
Foreword Alec MacCall
Introduction Andrea Belgrano and Charles W. Fowler
Part I. Current Forms of Management
1. Food-web and climate-related dynamics in the Baltic Sea, present and potential future applications in fish stock assessment and management Michele Casini, Christian Möllmann and Henrik Österblom
2. Northwest Atlantic ecosystem based management of fisheries Jason S. Link, Alida Bundy, William J. Overholtz, Nancy Shackell, John Manderson, Daniel Duplisea, Jonathan Hare, Mariano Koen-Alonso and Kevin Friedland
3. Alaska marine fisheries management, advancements and linkages to ecosystem research Patricia A. Livingston, Kerim Aydin, Jennifer L. Boldt, Anne B. Hollowed and Jeffrey M. Napp
4. A pragmatic approach for ecosystem-based fisheries assessment and management, a Korean marine ranch ecosystem Chang Ik Zhang and Suam Kim
Part II. Elements of Importance to Management
5. Unintended consequences sneak in the back door, making wise use of regulations in fisheries management Anne Maria Eikeset, Andries Richter, Florian K. Dickert, Dorothy Dankel and Nils Chr. Stenseth
6. Population dynamic theory as an essential tool for models in fisheries Mauricio Lima
7. Recovery of former fish productivity, philopatric behaviors put depleted stocks in an unforeseen deadlock Henrik Svedäng, Massimiliano Cardinale and Carl André
8. Boundary shifts, from management to engagement in complexities of ecosystems and social contexts Peter J. Taylor
9. Civil society and ecosystem-based fisheries management, traditional roles and future opportunities Tundi Agardy
Part III. Using Patterns
10. Science and management, matching the questions Charles W. Fowler and Larry Hobbs
11. Sustainability, ecosystems and fishery management Charles W. Fowler and Shannon McCluskey
12. On the path to holistic management, ecosystem-based management in marine systems Andrea Belgrano and Charles W. Fowler
Afterword Keith Brander
Index.