Fishing provides food, income and employment for millions of
people. However, fishing has environmental costs that threaten rare
species, marine ecosystems and the sustainability of the
resource.
Based on the research expertise of leading scientists,
Commercial Fishing: the Wider Ecological Impacts provides a
lively, timely and accessible account of fishing activities and
their impacts on marine habitats, biodiversity and species of
conservation concern. It covers fishing methods that range from
trawling in the Antarctic to fishing with dynamite in the
tropics.
The authors show how habitats such as the muddy sea beds of the
deep sea, kelp forests and coral reefs are affected by fishing and
how birds, mammals, turtles and sea snakes both suffer and benefit
from fishing activities. They also look to the future, highlighting
ways to make fishing gear ‘environmentally friendly’ and asking
whether marine reserves will improve conservation.
Table of Content
Key Points.
1. Introduction.
2. Fishing Gears And Their Operation; Gear Selectivity; Pelagic
Drifting Gears; Bottom Set Gears; Pelagic Mobile Gears; Bottom
Mobile Gears; SCUBA Diving, Explosives, Poisons.
3. Effects Of Litter From Fishing Gear Ghost Fishing; Ingestion
Of Fragments By Marine Mammals, Turtles And Seabirds.
4. Vulnerability Of Different Marine Habitats; Mud; Sand; Gravel
And Mixed Grounds; Maerl; Coral, Coralligene And Rocky Reef
Habitats; Seagrass Meadows; Kelp Forests; Sea Mounts; Relative
Vunerability.
5. Effects On Non-Target Organisms; Sea Birds; Sea Mammals; Sea
Turtles; Sea Snakes; Benthic Scavengers.
6. Community And Ecosystem Responses; Community Diversity;
Habitat Structure; Benthopelagic Coupling; Species Interactions;
Assessing Fisheries Effects.
7. Conservation Aspects And The Way Forward; Marine Reserves;
Practical Conservation Measures.
8. Further Reading.
9. Glossary.
10. Acronyms.
11. Addresses Of Contributors
About the author
George Edward Moore OM FBA was an English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic tradition in philosophy.
Simon Jennings is the editor of Commerical Fishing: The Wider Ecological Impacts, published by Wiley.
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