by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2008
The multinational effort to protect the vast resources of the Antarctic marine environment is often cited as among the best working examples of marine EBM. This regional initiative is under the auspices of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2008
By Daniel Pauly [Editor’s note: Pauly is head of the Sea Around Us Project at the University of British Colombia, Canada. E-mail: d.pauly@fisheries.ubc.ca] In the 1970s, when I was a student of fisheries biology in Kiel, Germany, we were taught from textbooks,...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2008
By Mike Beck [Editor’s note: Beck is a senior scientist with The Nature Conservancy in Santa Cruz, California, U.S. E-mail: mbeck@tnc.org] Many countries are moving toward more ecosystem-based management of fisheries. These programs vary somewhat in name and...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2008
By John F. Caddy [Editor’s note: Caddy is formerly of FAO and now an independent consultant based in Rome. E-mail: jfcaddy@yahoo.co.uk] I see EBFM (Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management) as a subset of EBM (Ecosystem-Based Management). Any kind of fisheries...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2008
Editor's note: The goal of The EBM Toolbox is to promote awareness of software tools for facilitating EBM processes, and to provide advice on using those tools effectively. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network (www.ebmtools.org), a voluntary alliance of...
