Holistic Approach to Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Linking Biological Hierarchies for Sustainable Fishing

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
	The Context of Fisheries at the Present
	Concern on Climate Patterns and Fishing
	Biological Hierarchies and Fisheries Management
	Biological Hierarchies, the Campeche Bank as an Example
	References
Chapter 2: Conventional Fisheries Management and the Need for an Ecosystem Approach
	The Need of Knowledge for Management
	New Challenges for Scientific Advice to Fishing
	Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries: Conventional Approach
	References
Chapter 3: Ecosystem Trophic Structure and Dynamics: Basic Concepts
	Theoretical Basis of Ecosystem Dynamics
	Ecosystem Organization, a Key Concept
	Ecosystem Metabolism: Supply-Demand of Energy
	Populations and Ecosystem Performance
	References
Chapter 4: Fisheries Within the Ecosystem Context: Production, Surplus Production, and Balanced Production
	Production and Surplus Production
	Feeding Behavior and Sustainable Production
	Ecosystem Balanced Surplus Production
	Overfishing Effects on Ecosystem Organization
	References
Chapter 5: Holistic Indicators: Theoretical Basis
	Holistic Indicator and Ecosystem Performance
	Ecosystem Window of Vitality
	Ecosystem Health and Resilience
	Ecosystem Vulnerability
	References
Chapter 6: Ecosystem Resilience
	Panarchy, Socioecological Systems, and Practice of Fishing
	Adaptative Cycle Sensu Holling (1986)
	Ecosystem Dynamics and Resilience
	Climate and Resilience in the Campeche Bank
	Fishing and Resilience Threshold: The Gulf of California
	References
Chapter 7: Stock and Ecosystem (Holistic) Biological Reference Points
	Population-Based Biological Reference Points
	Ecosystem-Based Biological Reference Points
	Change in Climate Patterns and Ecosystem Reconfiguration
	Catch-Based Ecosystem Reference Points
	Ecosystem´s Balanced Surplus-Production
	References
Chapter 8: Managing Fisheries Under a Holistic Approach
	The Challenge of Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management
		Climate Effects Assumed Overfishing
	Overfishing Diagnosis and Effect of Change in Climate Patterns: The Northern Gulf of California
	The Campeche Bank
	Ecosystem Vulnerability
	References
Chapter 9: Adaptability as Management Strategy
	The Need of Adaptability as Management Strategy
	Adaptability and Individual Stocks: The Campeche Bank, Gulf of Mexico
		The Pink Shrimp (Farfantepenaeus duorarum) Fishery
		The Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) Fishery
		The Red Octopus (Octopus maya) Fishery
	Ecosystem´s Considerations Towards Adaptability
	Holistic Attributes for Fisheries Management
	References
Chapter 10: Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Selected Examples
	Ecosystem-Based Management
	Monterrey Sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the Central Gulf of California
	Mangrove Community in Magdalena Bay, South Baja California
	Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) from the Campeche Bank
	Pink Shrimp (Penaeus duorarum) from Campeche Bank
	Red Octopus (Octopus maya) from Campeche Bank
	Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) from Campeche Bank
	Top Predators of the Gulf of California
	References
Chapter 11: Conclusions
	Population-Based Fisheries Management
	Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management
	References
Index