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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Intro -- Revolution in the Seas: Ending Overfishing and Building Pesco-Ecology, Sustainable Agro-Ecology of Fishing -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Foreword -- Introduction: Fishing, mining, and agricultures -- Part I The dynamics of overfishing the marine ecosystems -- Chapter 1 When humankind comes up against the limits of the biosphere -- In times of plenty -- Early impacts and early blindness -- The inexhaustible sea? -- The steam and trawl revolution -- Technical progress to conquer the oceans -- Fewer boats, but considerably more kilowatts |
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The production peak is behind us -- North Sea catches and ecosystem exploitation -- When collapse occurs -- Have we emptied the seas? -- Eight kilograms per person and no more -- References -- Websites -- Chapter 2 Warning, disruption in the marine ecosystems! -- Replacement and succession, the merry-go-round of species -- Regime shifts in ecosystems -- Fishing to low trophic levels -- Selection on the seabed: octopus, langoustine... and marine worms -- Trawls and dredges are under scrutiny -- Fishing and climate change -- When phenotypes and genotypes get involved |
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From genotype to genetic diversity -- Species biodiversity in question -- From species biodiversity to functional biodiversity -- Prey and predator, two different jobs -- A jellification of the oceans ? -- From the kelp forests to urchin barrens -- Harmful algae and dead zones in the ocean -- The seabed plunged into darkness -- A future of parasites and pathogens -- The challenge of marine pollution -- Critical habitats under attack -- Biological invasions due to globalization -- Climate disruption on the agenda -- The four sides of ecosystem degradation -- References -- Websites |
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Part II Fisheries management-From theory to powerlessness -- Chapter 3 When theory helps us understand the world -- Nature's great balance -- From the 'good savage' to Mother Nature's banquet -- The balance is dynamic -- Models and fish, or the foundations of scientific advice -- Schaefer sets out the formula -- More fishers, fewer fish... but still the balance -- Overfishing and maximum sustainable yield -- From theoretical model to regulation: Fishing effort, fishing rates, and quotas -- A production function, or the exposure of an economic aberration -- The bioeconomic model changes the optimum |
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Smaller fish... and fewer small fish -- Growth and recruitment overfishing -- A change in mesh size -- Ecology', did you say ? -- Putting certainties aside in a time of questioning -- Propagation in food webs -- Maturation and disturbances in ecosystems -- Socio-ecosystems -- From local to global, or the emergence of complexity -- From complexity to fisheries management: where do we stand now? -- References -- Websites -- Chapter 4 The long battle for fisheries management -- Prolegomena -- Let's restock the sea... -- and repopulate the oceans -- First attempts, first conflicts |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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The missed opportunity in London |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780443159114 |
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0443159114 |
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