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Revolution in the Seas
Ending Overfishing and Building Pesco-Ecology, Sustainable Agro-Ecology of Fishing
- 1st Edition - October 26, 2023
- Author: Didier Gascuel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 1 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 1 1 - 4
Revolution in the Seas: Ending Overfishing and Building Pesco-ecology, Sustainable Agro-Ecology of Fishing provides an in-depth analysis of the dynamics between humans and disru… Read more
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Request a sales quoteRevolution in the Seas: Ending Overfishing and Building Pesco-ecology, Sustainable Agro-Ecology of Fishing provides an in-depth analysis of the dynamics between humans and disrupting marine ecosystems by extracting its wild animals. It highlights practical changes that can be implemented to prevent overfishing and create a new way of fishing, the pescoecology that benefits marine life, coastal communities, and human consumers alike.
Written by a leader in fisheries science and conservation, this book begins by diagnosing the issue of overexploitation, showing the dynamics and consequences on living marine resources and ecosystems. It then goes on to demonstrate how recent scientific discoveries, including tropic network functionality, are changing humans’ approach to fishing sustainably. The final sections are devoted to ecological, economic, and social solutions.
Revolution in the Seas is a vital resource for fisheries scientists, managers, academics and students in marine biology or fisheries studies. All stakeholders and citizens involved in building a sustainable relationship between humans and the sea will also benefit from this book’s revolutionary content.
- Translated to English for global accessibility
- Analyzes systems and protocols that have led to overexploitation
- Examines innovations and key rules for implementing a new way of fishing and rethinking sustainability
Practitioners in fisheries management, research, and policy. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in fishery studies, aquaculture, marine ecology, and similar disciplines. And more generally all stakeholders and citizens involved in building a sustainable relationship between humans and the sea.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the author
- Foreword
- Introduction: Fishing, mining, and agricultures
- Part I: The dynamics of overfishing the marine ecosystems
- Part I Introduction
- Chapter 1 When humankind comes up against the limits of the biosphere
- Abstract
- In times of plenty
- Early impacts and early blindness
- The inexhaustible sea?
- The steam and trawl revolution
- Technical progress to conquer the oceans
- Fewer boats, but considerably more kilowatts
- The production peak is behind us
- North Sea catches and ecosystem exploitation
- When collapse occurs
- Have we emptied the seas?
- Eight kilograms per person and no more
- References
- Websites
- Chapter 2 Warning, disruption in the marine ecosystems!
- Abstract
- Replacement and succession, the merry-go-round of species
- Regime shifts in ecosystems
- Fishing to low trophic levels
- Selection on the seabed: octopus, langoustine… and marine worms
- Trawls and dredges are under scrutiny
- Fishing and climate change
- When phenotypes and genotypes get involved
- From genotype to genetic diversity
- Species biodiversity in question
- From species biodiversity to functional biodiversity
- Prey and predator, two different jobs
- A jellification of the oceans?
- From the kelp forests to urchin barrens
- Harmful algae and dead zones in the ocean
- The seabed plunged into darkness
- A future of parasites and pathogens
- The challenge of marine pollution
- Critical habitats under attack
- Biological invasions due to globalization
- Climate disruption on the agenda
- The four sides of ecosystem degradation
- References
- Websites
- Part II: Fisheries management—From theory to powerlessness
- Part II Introduction
- Chapter 3 When theory helps us understand the world
- Abstract
- Nature’s great balance
- From the ‘good savage’ to Mother Nature’s banquet
- The balance is dynamic
- Models and fish, or the foundations of scientific advice
- Schaefer sets out the formula
- More fishers, fewer fish… but still the balance
- Overfishing and maximum sustainable yield
- From theoretical model to regulation: Fishing effort, fishing rates, and quotas
- A production function, or the exposure of an economic aberration
- The bioeconomic model changes the optimum
- Smaller fish… and fewer small fish
- Growth and recruitment overfishing
- A change in mesh size
- ‘Ecology’, did you say?
- Putting certainties aside in a time of questioning
- Propagation in food webs
- Maturation and disturbances in ecosystems
- Socio-ecosystems
- From local to global, or the emergence of complexity
- From complexity to fisheries management: where do we stand now?
- References
- Websites
- Chapter 4 The long battle for fisheries management
- Abstract
- Prolegomena
- Let’s restock the sea…
- … and repopulate the oceans
- First attempts, first conflicts
- The missed opportunity in London
- The maximum sustainable yield putsch
- The utter powerlessness of international fisheries commissions
- The battle for the 200 nmi
- European fisheries: Born into impotence
- Schizophrenia and procrastination in Brussels
- Pulling back from the brink
- Progress in the North and global regression
- The concept of surplus and looting in the South
- The challenge of the pirate fleets
- Blind to a disaster
- The strange forces of decline
- Overfishing, ecosystems: What is the state of play?
- References
- Website
- Part III: Three radical changes required for a revolution in the seas
- Part III Introduction
- Chapter 5 Maintain fishing and minimize the impact: The smart predator
- Abstract
- Aquaculture is a complement, not a replacement
- Ecological footprint and food security
- Maintaining fishing means placing humankind within the ecosystem
- Healthy means productive and resilient
- Ecosystem services and global health
- Where are the boundaries?
- Affirming an ethical principle
- Sea and land—What are the differences?
- Minimization is a trajectory
- Maximum sustainable yield will not be enough
- From stock to fishery, what compromise between different species?
- Minimizing the impact on food webs
- Fishing for the eaters of lion-eaters
- Bottom trawling is doomed
- Biodiversity—Marine protected areas to the rescue
- Faced with global change, let’s develop pesco-ecology
- References
- Website
- Chapter 6 Maximizing economic and social utility: With humankind as the goal
- Abstract
- Economy and ecology, hand in hand?
- Economics is not enough
- Ecological and thus competitive
- The temptation of ecological economics
- Nature is invaluable
- Fishing, an asset for the development of coastal areas
- Fishing is about catching food for a living… and a lot more
- Overcapacity or access rights
- ITQs, or the evils of economic liberalism
- The fox in the henhouse
- A move towards collectively managed individual quotas
- Limiting catches … and fishing effort
- Work less and earn more
- A second radical change: the principle of maximization
- Artisanal fishing versus industrial fishing?
- Should the high seas be closed?
- Fleet-based management
- The four pillars of sustainable development
- References
- Website
- Chapter 7 Guaranteeing the common interest: New democratic requirements
- Abstract
- The Hardin tragedy
- Marine resources, a common good for humankind
- Elinor Ostrom’s eight principles
- The ecosystem, a territory for governance
- Building collective dynamics for adaptive management
- The States’ democratic guarantee and co-management
- Incentives or sanctions: The need for controls
- Training and information, two keys to progress
- Good news: The development of the internet and an influx of women
- Key stakeholders: The future generations
- Building the partnership with NGOs
- Good and bad subsidies
- Consumer power: Demand for an ecolabel
- Fishing in the South and global governance: Equity rather than equality
- Pesco-ecology, reconciling the scales
- References
- Website
- Epilogue: A challenge for humankind
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- No. of pages: 282
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 26, 2023
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443159107
- eBook ISBN: 9780443159114
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Didier Gascuel
Didier Gascuel is an ecology professor at the Institut Agro in Rennes, France, where he is head of the Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Center and leads a master’s programme in Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences. For nearly 30 years, he has been involved in the assessment of marine resources, fisheries, and ecosystems health, especially in European waters and in Western African countries. His current research focuses on the sustainable exploitation of marine resources and the modelling of the impacts of fishing and climate change on ecosystems. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the French Institute for Ocean Science, Ifremer, and has been a member of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF, 2008–22) of the European Union. From 2009 to 2017, he was the chairman of the French Association of Fisheries Scientists, which actively contributes to the public debate on sustainability of human maritime activities. He has published more than 200 scientific articles and presented over the past 5 years nearly 100 conferences for the public across France, on various topics related to sustainable fishing, marine biodiversity, and the impacts of climate change.
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