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Ecosystem Approaches to Management An Ecosystem Approach to Management is adaptive, geographically specified, takes account of ecosystem knowledge and uncertainties, considers multiple external influences, and strives to balance diverse societal objectives. "Ecosystem-based management can be an important complement to existing fisheries management approaches. When fishery managers understand the complex ecological and socioeconomic environments in which fish and fisheries exist, they may be able to anticipate the effects that fishery management will have on the ecosystem and the effects that ecosystem change will have on fisheries....A comprehensive ecosystem-based fisheries management approach would require managers to consider all interactions that a target fish stock has with predators, competitors, and prey species; the effects of weather and climate on fisheries biology and ecology; the complex interactions between fishes and their habitat; and the effects of fishing on fish stocks and their habitat." - NMFS Ecosystem Principles Advisory Panel (EPAP), 1999 The following links provide additional perspectives on the meaning of Ecosystem Approaches to Management (EAM) South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) Comprehensive Habitat and Fishery Ecosystem Plan Strategic Guidance for Implementing an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries Management A report prepared for Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee by the Ecosystem Approach Task Force Managing
our Nation’s Fisheries: Past, Present,
and Future (especially Section III, Chapter 6 entitled “Ecosystem
Planning”) The ecosystem approach
to fisheries:
Issues, terminology, principles,
institutional foundations,
implementation and outlook |
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