by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Mar 25, 2009
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...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2008
Fisheries management is an important component of broader marine management, no matter the circumstances of place or the scale of EBM undertaken. But what is the relationship between ecosystem-based management in general and ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM)...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2008
The Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME) Programme is a multinational initiative conceived in 1995 and involving the southwest African governments of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. It was designed to address the region’s transboundary marine...
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,...