Considering ecosystem-based fisheries management in the California Current |
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| Authors: | John C Field Robert C Francis |
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| Institution: | 1. Santa Cruz Laboratory, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA, 110 Shaffer Rd., Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA;2. School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences, University of Washington, Box 355020, Seattle, WA 98195-5020, USA |
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| Abstract: | Recognizing that all management decisions have impacts on the ecosystem being exploited, an ecosystem-based approach to management seeks to better inform these decisions with knowledge of ecosystem structure, processes and functions. For marine fisheries in the California Current, along the West Coast of North America, such an approach must take into greater consideration the constantly changing climate-driven physical and biological interactions in the ecosystem, the trophic relationships between fished and unfished elements of the food web, the adaptation potential of life history diversity, and the role of humans as both predators and competitors. This paper reviews fisheries-based ecosystem tools, insights, and management concepts, and presents a transitional means of implementing an ecosystem-based approach to managing US fisheries in the California Current based on current scientific knowledge and interpretation of existing law. |
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| Keywords: | Ecosystem management Fisheries management California Current |
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