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Ecosystem-based management for marine fisheries
The necessity of an ecosystem approach (EA) to fishery management has
been gaining worldwide recognition in recent years. This concept provides an
attractive alternative to viewing fisheries mainly as a profit-oriented economic
enterprise, especially given a growing dissatisfaction with a long, mixed, and
in some cases dismal record of resource overfishing, depletion, and collapse.
Though it is intuitively appealing, the EA concept has been rather difficult to
define formally. Yet, something called “an ecosystem approach” is now being
attempted in many different fisheries systems – collectively characterized with
as much variety as common ground. There are yet more proposals for how
to implement an EA waiting to be put into practice. The diverse collection of
examples in this book provides an overview of EA both in current practice and
future potential, and may contribute a subjective sense of what EA actually is,
whether or not we attempt a definition
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