An up-to-date and interdisciplinary guide to sustainable fisheries

Fisheries, whether small-scale or large-scale, are filled with complexity and uncertainty. Making the right decisions to successfully manage fisheries for sustainability and resilience requires a systems approach ― including both natural and human elements, and their many interactions. To understand fisheries, and how they change over time, a diverse range of fishery knowledge must be brought together.

Sustainable Fishery Systems, 2^nd edition meets these needs. The new edition provides essential information that can be readily applied within government, community, industrial, academic and research settings.

Sustainable Fishery Systems, 2^nd edition retains the first edition’s emphasis on themes such as sustainability, resilience, uncertainty, complexity, and conflict, and expands its treatment of topics that have, since the first edition’s publication, become crucial to consider in the field of fisheries. As a result, readers will find:

• Updated and expanded coverage of topics including coastal conservation, ecosystem-based management, co-management, community-based management, and more
• New chapters covering connections between fisheries and marine protected areas, biodiversity conservation, climate and fisheries, and multi-sectoral management
• A more detailed introduction to the “systems” perspective of fisheries, reflecting the substantial growth in that subject’s importance, and covering in detail the natural, human and governance aspects of fisheries.

Sustainable Fishery Systems, 2^nd edition is an indispensable interdisciplinary resource for educators, researchers, government agencies, and fisheries managers.

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   The Fish     27      Fishery Ecosystems     48      Fishers and Fishworkers     65      PostHarvest Aspects and Fishing Communities     89      The Fishery Governance and Management System     115      Fishery Management     142      Fishery Development     174      Fishery Knowledge     187  Research     195      Three Major Challenges in Fishery Systems     215      Conflict in Fishery Systems     227      Attitudes The Story of a Fishery Collapse     242      Modern Strategies for Fishery Systems     259  Adaptive Robust and Precautionary Management     298      The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries     321      RightsBased Approaches to Fisheries Management     341      Comanagement and CommunityBased Management     382      Fisheries and the Bigger Picture     411      Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation     437      Fisheries and MultiSectoral Management     456      Fisheries and Climate Change     481  Appendix A Atlantic Canadas Groundfish Fishery System     516      Appendix B Models of Fishery Systems     524      Developing a Framework of Fishery Indicators     538