Commerical Fishing (eBook)

The Wider Ecological Impacts

G. Moore, Simon Jennings (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-69485-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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.

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

"This book provides an excellent introduction to some of the
crucial issues in regard to the impact of commercial fishing on the
marine environment." Sali Jayne Bache, Marine Turtle Newsletter,
2002

'A remarkably reasonable and constructive book.'

Ausmarine Magazine, October 2007

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2008
• Reihe/Serie: British Ecological Society Ecological Issues
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: accessible account • Ökologie / Aquatische Lebensräume • Antarctic • Aquaculture, Fisheries & Fish Science • Aquakultur, Fischereiwesen u. Fischforschung • aquatic ecology • Biowissenschaften • commercial • concern • conservation • costs • dynamite • Ecological • Employment • environmental • Expertise • Fischereiwesen • fisheries • Habitats • impacts • income • leading • Life Sciences • Marine • millions • Ökologie / Aquatische Lebensräume • People • Range • Rare • Research • resource • scientists • wider
• ISBN-10: 0-470-69485-8 / 0470694858
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-69485-5 / 9780470694855