Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management: A Report to Congress by the Ecosystems Principles Advisory Panel

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Year: 1999
Pages: 54
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756711266

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David Fluharty (ed). Ecosystem-based management can be an important complement to existing fisheries management approaches. Congress requested that the National Marine Fisheries Service convene a panel of experts to: (1) assess the extent to which ecosystem principles are currently applied in fisheries research & management; & (2) recommend how best to integrate ecosystem principles into future fisheries mgmt. & research. The Advisory Panel developed a set of 8 ecosystem operating principles with societal goals for ecosystems & a set of 6 management policies, which it used to evaluate the current application of ecosystem-based fisheries management & to develop recommendations for implementation of such approaches.

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