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Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries
Alan Longhurst
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Description for Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries
paperback. A critique of the central assumption that marine ecosystems produce surplus fish that can be taken by commercial fishing. Num Pages: 334 pages, 26 b/w illus. BIC Classification: KNAF; PSPM; PSVS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 546.
Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it induces in the fish, and that this is sustainable. His novel analysis of the reproductive ecology of bony fish of cooler seas offers some support for this, but a review of fisheries past and present confirms that sustainability is rarely achieved. The relatively open structure and strong variability of marine ecosystems is discussed in relation to the reliability of resources used by the industrial-level fishing that became globalised during the 20th century. This was associated with an extraordinary lack ... Read more
Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it induces in the fish, and that this is sustainable. His novel analysis of the reproductive ecology of bony fish of cooler seas offers some support for this, but a review of fisheries past and present confirms that sustainability is rarely achieved. The relatively open structure and strong variability of marine ecosystems is discussed in relation to the reliability of resources used by the industrial-level fishing that became globalised during the 20th century. This was associated with an extraordinary lack ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
334
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521721509
SKU
V9780521721509
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Ref
99-20
About Alan Longhurst
Alan Longhurst began his career in fisheries science, but is best known as a biological oceanographer, being the first Director of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center of the US NMFS in La Jolla, California, and later the Director-General of the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Nova Scotia, Canada. He produced the first estimate of global plant production in the oceans ... Read more
Reviews for Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries
'A highly readable and insightful analysis of prominent failures in world fisheries management from an eminent marine scientist.' Peter Koeller, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia