A flexible and practical framework for reporting on ecologically sustainable development for wild capture fisheries

Satisfaction with fishing and the desire to leave

“…In Australia and elsewhere, there is increasing interest in assessing the social performance of fisheries management to complement economic and environmental sustainability assessments as part of the ecosystem based approach to fisheries management and the broader principles of ecological sustainable development (Fletcher et al 2005). Satisfaction measures are a key component of such social assessments, and hence data are likely to become increasingly available.…”

Ecosystem structure and functioning of Lake Taihu (China) and the impacts of fishing

“…Although the objectives of ecosystem-based management are difficult to define, a general awareness exists that quantitative modeling is an important tool for exploring the ecological consequences of fishing and improving our understanding of how ecosystems function (Cury and Chirstensen, 2005). Ecosystem models are complimentary to single-species fisheries models in that they are potentially able to predict the otherwise unforeseen effects of trophic interactions; however, their high degree of complexity and large input data requirements have kept them from becoming a commonly used tool in stock assessment and fisheries management Cury and Shannon, 2004;Fletcher et al, 2005;Coll et al, 2006). Lake Taihu, located in the southern Jiangsu province and northern Zhejiang province, is the third largest freshwater lake in China with an area of 2338 km 2 (Fig.…”

Toward an ecological understanding of a flood-pulse system lake in a tropical ecosystem: Food web structure and ecosystem health

“…In view of these facts, it is widely accepted that an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management is important for maintaining sustainable fisheries and healthy ecosystems (FAO, 1995;NRC, 1999). Ecosystem models are complementary to single-species fisheries models in that they are potentially able to predict otherwise unforeseen effects of trophic interactions; they are now common in stock assessment and fisheries management (Coll et al, 2006;Fletcher et al, 2005). Ecosystem based fishery management has already been widely employed worldwide, as in the Great Lakes in the USA (Kolding et al, 2008), Qiandaohu Lake (Liu et al, 2007), Bao'an Lake (Guo et al, 2013) and Three Gorges Reservoir (Mao et al, 2014) in China.…”