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Sustainable Livelihoods and an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management

Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science

The fishery for spiny lobster Panulirus argus in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is well chronicled, but little information is available on the prevalence of lost or abandoned lobster traps. In 2007, towed-diver surveys were used to identify and count pieces of trap debris and any other marine debris encountered. Trap debris density (debris incidences/ha) in historic trap-use zones a...

Irreducible uncertainties, sustainable fisheries and marine reserves

Marine reserves are increasingly proposed as a management tool. Models can play a valuable role in the evaluation of the possible benefits of reserves because they allow us to conduct many more investigations than could ever be done empirically. In this paper, I develop a model for a marine reserve for an open population subject to environmental uncertainty.

Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management Introduction

Spring in Paris (31 March to 3 April 2004) helped to attract more than 250 participants from 53 countries to a symposium on ‘‘Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management’’. The symposium was hosted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at the UNESCO headquarters next to the Eiffel Tower, and coorganized with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). Four ye...

Ecosystem Approaches for Fisheries Management, Part 7

Since 1981, the Benguela Ecology Programme has aimed at increasing ecological understanding of a large marine upwelling region of importance to fisheries. In an attempt to summarize results of this program, experts brought together both published and unpublished data at a workshop held in Cape Town in 1989. This was in an attempt to construct simple input-output carbon budgets of the Northern a...