Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
1 From certainty to doubt in fishery science......Page 17
Endnotes......Page 30
2 The ecological consequences of the exceptional fecundity of teleosts......Page 32
The anomalous fecundity of teleosts......Page 33
The ecological role of planktonic larvae......Page 37
Endnotes......Page 48
3 Indeterminate growth, negative senescence and longevity......Page 50
Negative senescence: a consequence of indeterminate growth......Page 51
BOFFs: growth trajectories, selective energy allocation and reproductive strategy......Page 56
What happens if we curtail the duration of the reproductive period?......Page 61
Endnotes......Page 69
4 Marine ecosystems: their structure and simulation......Page 72
Terrestrial ecosystems: no surplus production of biomass usable by industry......Page 73
Trophic relations and energy flow in marine ecosystems......Page 76
Characteristic structure and scale of marine habitats......Page 80
Taxonomic characterisation of regional ecosystems......Page 83
The undersampling problem and simulation of ecosystem functioning......Page 85
Endnotes......Page 92
5 The natural variability of fish populations and fisheries......Page 95
The perhaps very distant forcing of fish populations......Page 97
Regime shifts, changes of state or punctuated equilibria......Page 105
Cyclical changes in the abundance of fish populations......Page 113
A general consequence of ocean instability recruitment variability......Page 123
Endnotes......Page 132
6 Has sustainability in fishing ever been achieved?......Page 135
Ancient fishing and the destruction of pristine populations......Page 136
The evolution of fisheries into the Late Mediæval Period......Page 141
Early fisheries of the Northwest Atlantic......Page 146
Globalisation of industrial fishing: from Pushkins to rustbuckets......Page 150
Endnotes......Page 168
7 What is the real state of global fish populations?......Page 171
Hilborn's great divide in fisheries sciences......Page 173
What do we really know about the present state of global fish stocks?......Page 177
Uncertainties arising from discards and from illegal, unregulated and unreported catches......Page 185
How much confidence can we have in assessments of global stock depletion levels?......Page 192
Consequences of the differential sensitivity of marine biota to fishing......Page 204
Endnotes......Page 208
8 The mechanics of population collapse......Page 211
The morass of unreliable or incorrect stock assessment data......Page 215
The tricky translation of scientific advice into management decision......Page 219
Levels of national compliance with Treaties and Agreements......Page 226
Slash-and-burn fishing: the extraordinary LRFF (Live Reef Food Fish) trade......Page 232
Individual enterprise in ignoring regulations and in applying political pressure......Page 234
Endnotes......Page 242
9 Why don't some fish populations recover after depletion?......Page 245
Depensation, predation and other obstacles to population recovery......Page 250
On re-inventing nature and making new species......Page 255
Broken ecosystems......Page 263
Endnotes......Page 273
10 Is the response of the fishery science community appropriate?......Page 277
Optimism is the rule - but who calls the tune?......Page 278
The new ecological imperative: paradigm shift or feeding frenzy?......Page 281
The end of open-access fishing?......Page 293
Marine protected areas: neither panacea nor red herring......Page 298
Endnotes......Page 304
11 Conclusion: sustainability can be achieved rarely and only under special conditions......Page 307
A fishery for an ideal fish......Page 312
A fishery with exceptional management......Page 317
Endnotes......Page 329
Index......Page 331