Ecosystem Based Management for Marine Fisheries: An Evolving Perspective

1. Food-web and climate-related dynamics in the Baltic Sea: present and potential future applications in fi sh stock assessment and management
2. Northwest Atlantic ecosystem-based management for fi sheries
3. Alaska marine fi sheries management: advances and linkages to ecosystem research
4. A pragmatic approach for ecosystem-based fi sheries assessment and management: a Korean marine ranch ecosystem
5. Unintended consequences sneak in the back door: making wise use of regulations in fi sheries management
6. Population dynamic theory as an essential tool for models in fi sheries
7. Recovery of former fi sh productivity: philopatric behaviors put depleted stocks in an unforeseen deadlock
8. Boundary shifts: from management to engagement in complexities of ecosystems and social contexts
9. Civil society and ecosystem-based fi sheries management: traditional roles and future opportunities
10. Science and management: systemically matching the questions
11. Sustainability, ecosystems, and fi shery management
12. On the path to holistic management: ecosystem-based management in marine systems

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