A fishery manager's guidebook

Identifies the primary tasks in the management of capture fisheries, with particular emphasis on sustainable utilization of biological resources and demonstrates how these tasks should be undertaken in an integrated and coordinated manner to obtain the desired benefits from the biological resources...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cochrane, K. L. (Author), Garcia, Serge (Author)
Corporate Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell , c2009
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction - fisheries management
  • 2. Biology and ecology considerations for the fishery manager
  • 3. Social aspects of fisheries management
  • 4. Economic principles: an economic perspective on fishing
  • 5. Legal aspects
  • 6. The fishery management institutions
  • 7. Regulation of fishing gears and methods
  • 8. Area and time restrictions
  • 9. Input and output controls: the practice of fishing effort and catch management in responsible fisheries
  • 10. Rights-based fisheries management: the role of use rights in managing acces and harvesting
  • 11. Partnership in management
  • 12. Which indicators for what management? the challenge of connecting offer and demand of indicators
  • 13. The use of scientific information
  • 14. Fishery monitoring, control and surveillance
  • 15. Special consideration for small-scale fisheries management in developing countries
  • 16. Fisheries management plans
  • 17. From past management to future governance: a perspective view