The ecosystem approach is being promoted as the foundation of solutions to the unsustainability of fisheries. However, because the ecosystem approach is broadly inclusive, the science for its implementation is often considered to be overly complex and difficult. When the science needed for an ecosystem approach to fisheries is perceived this way, science products cannot keep pace with fisheries...

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...

Development of alternative livelihoods has become a popular policy to uplift the socioeconomic status of small-scale fishers and to reduce fishing pressure on overexploited fisheries. Seaweed farming has been incorporated into many community-based coastal resources management projects and fisheries management initiatives as an alternative livelihood option for fishers in tropical developing cou...

R. J. David Wells1,2*, Michael J. Kinney3, Suzanne Kohin4, Heidi Dewar4, Jay R. Rooker1,2, and Owyn E. Snodgrass3 Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, 1001 Texas Clipper Rd, Galveston, TX 77553, USA Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA Ocean Associates; Under Contract to Southwest Fisheries Science Ce...

Seals and humans often target the same food resource, leading to competition. This is of mounting concern with fish stocks in global decline. Grey seals were tracked from southeast Ireland, an area of mixed demersal and pelagic fisheries, and overlap with fisheries on the Celtic Shelf and Irish Sea was assessed. Overall, there was low overlap between the tagged seals and fisheries. However, whe...

The resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed and developing countries has been used to provide lessons to conventional managers regarding ways to transition toward a social-ecological approach to understanding and managing fisheries. We contribute to the understanding of the relationship between management and the resilience of small-scale fisheries in developed countries by looking at ...

Declining fish catch, conversion of mangroves into fish ponds and overexploitation of coastal resources were rampant among the coastal areas of Philippines. Hence, the national government initiated the implementation of Philippine National Aquasilviculture Program aimed to achieve food security, promote sustainable development of fisheries resources, and reduce poverty incidence among fisherfol...

How can it be that fisheries appear in trouble every time newspapers report on them? Coastal and marine fisheries have existed for a long time. Initially, people waded along the shore gathering shells and harpooned whatever marine mammal or large fish ventured inshore. Only those fish and other animal species that were large and had very narrow coastal distribution were then in danger of being ...

Marcel Bursztyn [email protected] Sustainable Development Center – University of Brasília © 2004 Antonio Oviedo and Marcel Bursztyn Abstract The problem of the non-utilization of sustainable management practices of the fishing resources in the Amazon is a result of various causes, such as the security of land tenure, inadequate public policies, the expansion of ranching into floodplains areas...