Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Progress, Importance, and Impacts in the United States

This book provides solid and practical support for ecosystem-based thinking applied to fisheries management in US aquatic ecosystems. It is highly recommended as a reference for a wide readership, especially fisheries and policy experts, to support the construction of more bridges between these worlds—that is essential for all of us. * Conservation Biology * This book is highly recommended as a reference for a wide readership, especially fisheries and policy experts, to support the construction of more bridges between these worlds—that is essential for all of us. * Conservation Biology * This book provides solid and practical support for ecosystem-based thinking applied to fisheries management in US aquatic ecosystems. It is highly recommended as a reference for a wide readership, especially fisheries and policy experts, to support the construction of more bridges between these worlds—that is essential for all of us. * Journal of Conservation Biology * Are we finally there? The writing has been on the wall for decades, EBFM is coming! But only now do Link and Marshak demonstrate that we actually can walk the walk, drawing eminently upon case studies to provide lessons for making EBFM operational. We have made progress, and Link and Marshak are at the forefront of the development as demonstrated through this book. * Villy Christensen, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries University of British Columbia , Canada * EBFM has been recognized as a necessary approach to balancing exploitation and ecosystem health for more than 20 years now. There is a lot written about its mixed implementation to date so having an objective assessment of true progress is refreshing and timely. The credentials of Marshak and Link lay considerable weight to the assessment, both have been major contributors bedding down and moving practical EBFM forward in America and more widely. * Beth Fulton, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia and Deputy Director, Centre for Marine Socioecology, UTAS Research Program Leader, Environment and Ecosystems, Blue Economy CRC, Australia * EBFM is an essential step in ensuring that fisheries are managed in a way to maintain ecosystems ability to continue to contribute to human well-being. Understanding what has been done in US fisheries to move towards EBFM is an important step to refining how to implement EBFM, and there is no one better able to tell this than Link and Marshak. * Ray Hilborn, Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, USA * Ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management are a keystone element to achieve the diverse goals that people have for ocean systems globally. In order to make progress in implementing ecosystem-based approaches, it is critical to evaluate the efforts to date, recognizing how social and environmental factors shape both the form and the outcomes of EBFM in different places around the world. Jason Link and Tony Marshak are at the frontier of this type of assessment. * Heather Leslie, Director, Darling Marine Center and School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, USA; co-author of Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans *