Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Context
- 1 Admit the problem
- 2 Why is an ecosystem approach now strongly heralded and merited?
- 3 Being audacious
- 4 Framework for scientific information to support EBFM
- 5 When does it make sense to do EBFM?
- Part II Making EBFM operational: technical considerations
- Part III Institutional considerations
- Glossary
- References
- Index
2 - Why is an ecosystem approach now strongly heralded and merited?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Context
- 1 Admit the problem
- 2 Why is an ecosystem approach now strongly heralded and merited?
- 3 Being audacious
- 4 Framework for scientific information to support EBFM
- 5 When does it make sense to do EBFM?
- Part II Making EBFM operational: technical considerations
- Part III Institutional considerations
- Glossary
- References
- Index
Summary
Ecosystems are not more complicated than you think, they are more complicated than you can think.
Jack Ward Thomas, former director of the US Forest Service (Burnside and Rasmussen 1997)SORTING OUT ALPHABET SOUP, AND WHAT DOES EBFM MEAN?
Ecosystem considerations in a marine scientific and management context have been extant for more than a century (e.g. Baird1873). The concept of ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) as applied to marine fisheries was more recently crystallized in Larkin's (1996) paper, with the chief observation that it provides a holistic approach to natural resource management. Since then, there has been recognition that EBFM for marine systems is gaining momentum (Botsford et al. 1997; NMFS 1999; Link 2002b, 2002c; FAO 2003; Garcia et al. 2003; Pikitch et al. 2004; see perspectives of Cury 2004; Lotze 2004; Browman and Stergiou 2005; Garcia and Cochrane 2005; Field and Francis 2006; Marasco et al. 2007; Murawski 2007). Most who have thought about the issue conclude that we can only manage human activities within an ecosystem (Hilborn 2007), not necessarily the ecosystem itself. The key point is that this and related terminology are, as Larkin noted, shorthand for more holistic approaches to resource management.
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- Ecosystem-Based Fisheries ManagementConfronting Tradeoffs, pp. 20 - 33Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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