Publisher's Synopsis
The text Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective provides a detailed overview of ecosystem-based management of fisheries. It explores the complex and interdisciplinary nature of the subject by bringing together contributions from some of the world's leading fisheries scientists, managers and conservationists. In first chapter, we compare ultraoligotrophic areas and describe the main threats to ultraoligotrophic marine ecosystems. The purpose of second chapter is to highlight the main features of several complementary models applied to parts of the Mediterranean sea resulting in the best available tools for linking observations (in situ and remote) with theory (both hydrodynamics and ecosystems). Third chapter focuses on marine ecosystem of the subantarctic, Prince Edward Islands. The aims of fourth chapter are to review advances in the use of meiofauna as a bio-indicator for the monitoring of marine ecosystems; and to highlight future perspectives of this approach. Chemical interactions in antarctic marine benthic ecosystems have been discussed in fifth chapter. An interdisciplinary erosion mitigation approach for coral reef protection has been proposed in sixth chapter. Seventh chapter deals with evolution and ecophysiology of the labyrinthulomycetes. Seabed mapping and marine spatial planning have been focused in eighth chapter. Hydrocarbon contamination and the swimming behavior of the estuarine copepod eurytemora affinis have been investigated in last chapter.
