5 easy pieces : how fishing impacts marine ecosystems / Daniel Pauly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pauly, D. (Daniel)

Series:

State of the world's oceans series.

The state of the world's ocean series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisheries--Environmental aspects.

Fisheries.

Marine ecology.

Physical Description:

xii, 193 p. : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Five easy pieces

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Island Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

5 Easy Pieces features five contributions, originally published in Nature and Science, demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems. Initially published over an eight-year period, from 1995 to 2003, these articles illustrate a transition in scientific thought--from the initially-contested realization that the crisis of fisheries and their underlying ocean ecosystems was, in fact, global to its broad acceptance by mainstream scientific and public opinion. Daniel Pauly, a well-known fisheries expert who was a co-author of all five articles, presents each original article here and surrounds it with a rich array of contemporary comments, many of which led Pauly and his colleagues to further study. This wonderfully reflective structure dramatically illustrates how science and society influence one another, sometimes to the betterment of both.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Table of Contents

List of Exhibits

Boxes

Box 1.1: Definitions of Fish, Landings, and Trophic Level

Box 1.2: Why We Can't Use Mean Trophic Levels to Calculate Primary Production Required

Box 2.1: What is a FishBase?

Box 2.2: Definition and Interpretations of the Fishing-in-Balance (FiB) Index

Box 4.1: Single Species Stock Assessments

Box 4.2: Trophic Levels as Indicators of Fisheries Impacts

Box 4.3: Sustainable Coral Reef Fisheries: An Oxymoron?

Tables

Table 1.1: Reported world fisheries catches and ancillary statistics

Table 1.2: Global estimates of primary production required to sustain world fisheries

Table A1: Some estimates of the potential fisheries of the oceans

Figures

Figure 1.1: FAO Areas, as used to disaggregate catch data.

Figure 1.2: Approach used to estimate the primary production required to sustain catches.

Figure 1.3: Frequency distribution of transfer efficiencies in 48 trophic models.

Figure 1.4: Trophic flux model of the northeastern Venezuelan shelf.

Figure 1.5: Transfer efficiency (%) in 48 models of trophic flows in aquaticecosystems.

Figure 2.1: Bouncing back: Fish stocks recovered two years after a small reserve was set up.

Figure 2.2: Global trends of mean trophic level of fisheries landings, 1950-1994.

Figure 2.3: Trends of mean trophic level of fisheries landings in northern temperate areas.

Figure 2.4: Trends of mean trophic levels of fisheries landings in the intertropical belt.

Figure 2.5: High-amplitude changes of mean trophic levels in fisheries landings.

Figure 2.6: Plots of mean trophic levels versus fisheries landings in four marine regions.

Figure 2.7: Trends in mean trophic level of landings from marine waters.

Figure 2.8: Illustrating the effect of taxonomic overaggregation on evidence for"fishing down."

Figure 2.9: Illustrating the effect of spatial overaggregation on evidence for "fishing down."

Figure 2.10: Trends in mean trophic level in Indian States and Union Territories.

Figure 2.11: Basic trends in Indian fisheries.

Figure 2.12: Schematic representation of the fishing down process.

Figure 3.1: Time series of global and Chinese marine fisheries catches.

Figure 3.2: Maps used to correct Chinese marine fisheries catches.

Figure 3.3: Absolute and per caput food fish production from marine capture.

Figure 4.1: Estimated global fish landings, 1950-1999.

Figure 4.2: Fisheries are characterized by a decline of mean trophic level.

Figure 4.3: Schematic representation of the effects of environmental variation on fish population.

Figure 5.1: Fraction of the sea bottom and adjacent waters contributing to the world's fisheries.

Figure 5.2: Recent patterns and near-future predictions of global oil production and fish catches.

Figure A1.1: Global marine catches, 1948-1993.

Figure A1.2: Putative "transfer efficiency as a function of total phytoplankton production."

Figure A2.1: Trophic level trends in Cuban landings, in the Gulf of Thailand, and in global marine fisheries.

Figure A2.2: Relationships between trophic level and body length in fish.

Preface

Chapter One: Primary Production Required

A Summer in Manila

Primary Production Required to Sustain Global Fisheries

A Response and a Tedious Rejoinder

The World According to Pimm

Coverage by the Mass Media

A Large Fermi Solution

Chapter Two: Fishing Down the Food Web

Another Summer in Manila

Fishing Down Marine Food Webs

FAO's Comments and a Rejoinder

The CBD and Its "Marine Trophic Index

The Jellyfish Sandwich.

Chapter Three: China and the World's Fisheries

Spring in Vancouver Island

Systematic Distortion in World Fisheries Catch Trends

The Economist, the FAO, and the World

Chinese Responses

The Media, or How Everyone Likes a Difference Sauce

Chapter Four: Sustainability

What is Sustainability, Anyway?

Towards Sustainability in Global Fisheries

Chapter Five: Future of Fisheries

Stepping into the Future

The Future for Fisheries

The Future Revisited

Epilogue

Appendix 1: The Origins of the 100 Million Tonnes Myth

Appendix 2: Rejoinder: Response to Caddy et al.

Appendix 3: Post-1998 Studies of "Fishing Down

Endnotes

Acknowledgments

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-184) and index.

ISBN:

9781597269681

1597269689

OCLC:

923187683