Shifting Baselines The Past and the Future of Ocean Fisheries / edited by Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Karen E. Alexander, Enric Sala.

Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expecta...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Jackson, Jeremy B.C (Editor), Alexander, Karen E. (Editor), Sala, Enric (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
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505 0 |a Introduction: The Importance of Shifting Baselines -- PART I. THE PROBLEM DEFINED. 1. A Shoreline Remembrance -- 2. The “March of Folly” in Global Fisheries -- 3. If a Frond Falls in the Kelp Forest (does it make any sound?) -- PART II. ANCHOVIES AND SARDINES. 4. The Sardine-Anchovy Puzzle -- 5. Variations in Fisheries and Complex Ocean Environments -- PART III. COD. 6. The Historical Abundance of Cod on the Nova Scotian Shelf -- 7. History and Context: Reflections from Newfoundland -- PART IV. METHODS IN HISTORICAL MARINE ECOLOGY. 8. Uncovering the Ocean’s Past -- 9. Whales, Logbooks, and DNA -- PART V. FROM FISHERIES MANAGEMENT TO ECOSYSTEMS. 10. Management in the Gulf of Maine -- 11. Lessons from Coral Reefs -- Epilogue: Shifting Baselines for the Future -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. 
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