Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Director-General of FAO
  • Foreword / Minister of Fisheries, Iceland
  • Global Overview of Marine Fisheries / Serge M. Garcia and Ignacio de Leiva Moreno
  • Obligations to Protect Marine Ecosystems under International Conventions and Other Legal Instruments / Transform Aqorau
  • Incorporating Ecosystem Considerations into Fisheries Management : Large-scale Industry Perspectives / Bernt O. Bodal
  • Small-scale Fisheries Perspectives on an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries Management / Sebastian Mathew
  • An Environmentalist's Perspective on Responsible Fisheries : the Need for Holistic Approaches / Tundi Agardy
  • Ecological Geography as a Framework for a Transition Toward Responsible Fishing / Daniel Pauly, Reg Watson and Villy Christensen
  • The Functioning of Marine Ecosystems : a Fisheries Perspective / Philippe Cury, Lynne Shannon and Yunne-Jai Shin
  • Food Webs in the Ocean : Who Eats Whom and How Much? / Andrew W. Trites
  • Regional Assessments of Prey Consumption and Competition by Marine Cetaceans in the World / Tsutomu Tamura
  • Multi-species and Ecosystem Models in a Management Context / Gunnar Stefansson
  • Multiple Uses of Marine Ecosystems / Andrew A. Rosenberg
  • Impacts of Fishing Gear on Marine Benthic Habitats / Michel J. Kaiser, Jeremy S. Collie, Stephen J. Hall, Simon Jennings and Ian R. Poiner
  • The Magnitude and Impact of By-catch Mortality by Fishing Gear / Robin Cook
  • The Effects of Fishing on Species and Genetic Diversity / Ellen L. Kenchington
  • The Effects of Fishing on Non-target Species and Ecosystem Structure and Function / Henrik Gislason
  • Anthropogenically Induced Changes in the Environment : Effect on Fisheries / Katherine Richardson
  • The Performance of Fisheries Management Systems and the Ecosystem Challenge / Jon G. Sutinen and Mark Soboil
  • The Role of Harvest Control Laws, Risk and Uncertainty and the Precautionary Approach in Ecosystem-based Management / Douglas S. Butterworth and A.E. Punt
  • Modifying Fishing Gear to Achieve Ecosystem Objectives / John W. Valdemarsen and Petri Suuronen
  • Incorporating Ecosystem Objectives into Management of Sustainable Marine Fisheries, Including 'Best Practice' Reference Points and Use of Marine Protected Areas / Keith Sainsbury and Ussif Rashid Sumaila
  • Governance for Responsible Fisheries : an Ecosystem Approach / Michael P. Sissenwine and Pamela M. Mace
  • Towards Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management / FAO.