Ecosystem-based fisheries management:confronting tradeoffs

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Link Jason S
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge New York
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xiv, 207 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780521762984 (hbk.)
0521762987
Index Number: F316
CLC: F316.4
Call Number: F316.4/L756
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-202) and index.
pt .1. Context. Admit the problem -- Why is an ecosystem approach now strongly heralded and merited? -- Being audacious -- Framework for scientific information to support EBFM -- When does it make sense to do EBFM? -- pt. 2. Making EBFM operational: technical considerations. Ecosystem indicators -- Expanding the stock focus: what we should have been doing yesterday -- A systemic focus: what we can do now -- Assessing risk: a different view of ecosystem information -- pt. 3. Institutional considerations. Why most fisheries biologists become amateur social scientists -- Management institutions
Brings together a wide range of information - ecology, fisheries, oceanography, mathematics, risk-assessment, resource economics, and institutional dynamics - to show how we can better understand, address trade-offs in, and implement successful management of marine resources. Provides useful tools and ideas to the fisheries scientific community, resource managers, policy makers, and stakeholders.