Sustainable fishery systems [[electronic resource] /] / Anthony T. Charles

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910830577203321
• Autore: Charles Anthony Trevor <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 2001
• ISBN: 1-282-34238-X; 9786612342387; 0-470-69878-0; 0-470-69823-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Collana: Fish and aquatic resources series ; ; no. 5
• Disciplina: 333.95; 333.95616; 639.3
• Soggetti: Sustainable fisheries; Sustainable aquaculture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Sustainable Fishery Systems; Contents; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: The Fishery System: Structure and Dynamics; Chapter 1: Fishery Systems; 1.1 Depicting fishery systems; 1.2 Characterising fishery systems; 1.3 Summary; Chapter 2: The Natural System; 2.1 The fish; 2.2 Spatial distribution of fished resources; 2.3 The ecosystem; 2.4 Aquatic/fishery ecosystems; 2.5 A typology of fishery ecosystems; 2.6 The physical-chemical environment; 2.7 Summary; Chapter 3: The Human System; 3.1 The fishers; 3.2 A typology of fishers; 3.3 A typology of fishing methods; 3.4 Beyond the fishers3.5 The post-harvest sector and consumers; 3.6 Marketing and distribution; 3.7 Processing; 3.8 Markets; 3.9 Consumers; 3.10 Fishing households and communities; 3.11 The socioeconomic environment; 3.12 Summary; Chapter 4: The Management System: Policy and Planning; 4.1 Fishery policy and planning; 4.2 Fishery objectives; 4.3 A portfolio of fishery objectives; 4.4 Objectives, priorities and conflict; 4.5 Fishery management institutions; 4.6 Time scales of management; 4.7 Spatial scales of ; management; 4.8 Summary; Chapter 5: Fishery Management; 5.1 Appropriate effort and catch levels5.2 Developing a portfolio of fishery management measures; 5.3 Implementation at the operational level; 5.4 Fishery enforcement; 5.5 A survey of fishery management measures; 5.6 Input (effort) controls; 5.7 Output (catch) controls; 5.8 Technical measures; 5.9 Ecologically based management; 5.10 Indirect economic instruments: taxes and subsidies; 5.11 Summary; Chapter 6: Fishery Development; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Objectives of fishery development; 6.3 Fishery development as a priority; 6.4 Targeting fishery development; 6.5 Small-scale versus industrial versus foreign fisheries6.6 A typology of fishery development measures; 6.7 Participatory fishery development; 6.8 Summary; Chapter 7: Fishery Research; 7.1 The need for fishery research; 7.2 The nature of fishery research; 7.3 The structure of fishery research; 7.4 Participants in fishery research; 7.5 Summary; Chapter 8: Dynamics of the Fishery System; 8.1 Time scales; 8.2 Fishery system dynamics: component by component; 8.3 Dynamics of the natural system; 8.4 Dynamics of the human system; 8.5 Dynamics of the management system; 8.6 Information dynamics; 8.7 Fishery system dynamics8.8 Summary; Chapter 9: Case Studies of Fishery Systems; 9.1 Case study 1: Canada's Atlantic groundfish fishery system; 9.2 Case study 2: the fishery system in Costa Rica's Gulf of Nicoya; Part II: Towards Sustainable Fishery Systems; Chapter 10: Sustainability in Fishery Systems; 10.1 The evolving nature of sustainability; 10.2 A framework for sustainability assessment in fishery systems; 10.3 Components of sustainability; 10.4 Sustainability checklist; 10.5 Sustainability indicators; 10.6 Indices of sustainability; 10.7 Validation of sustainability indicators; 10.8 Methodological challenges for sustainability assessment
• Sommario/riassunto: This book provides a comprehensive attempt to adopt an 'integrated' interdisciplinary approach to the study of fisheries. Fisheries are discussed as holistic 'systems', with emphasis on their structure, operation and dynamics. The book's interdisciplinary approach is applied to an analysis of problems faced in pursuing 'sustainable fisheries', with emphasis on six dominant themes: sustainability, uncertainty, complexity, conflict, fishing rights and the nature of management. Within this discussion, several major directions in current fishery thinking are explored, notably the precautionary app