ISBN: 9781839378867
Year: 2023
Binding: HB
Price: US $ 325.00
Fisheries management should be at the heart of the global maritime policy, which should reinforce and expand in order to foster mutual understanding among all maritime decision-makers and participants. Factors such as insecticides, maritime pollution and plastic litter, which play a key influence in the loss of fish species, must be factored into effective decision-making. Fishing has been a key source of sustenance for humans and a source of employment and economic advantages for those who participate in it since ancient times. However, as knowledge grew and fisheries developed, it became clear that live aquatic resources, while renewable, are finite and must be managed effectively if their contribution to the nutritional, economic, and social well-being of the world's rising population is to be sustained. In fisheries management, there is a difficult balance between socioeconomic and environmental security. Public access to food and recreation, individual employment and livelihood, and community identity and kinfolk are all benefits of fishing. These characteristics of fishing must be preserved and promoted.
This book is an introduction to the range of ideas and management activities that form part of fisheries management. It is designed to present existing knowledge in a straightforward manner that can be useful for those actually implementing fisheries management, as well as to those who just want to learn more about it. Readers can adapt the management approaches or tools to their own context, their own fisheries, or even for management of nonmarine resources. It deals with the effects of pesticides on fish physiology, anoxia increase in lakes and salmonella in fish and fishery products. It also focuses on freshwater fish as sentinel organisms, the elasmobranchs as a fishery resource, zebrafish toxicology and physiological dysfunction in fishes. Most of the topics introduced in this book are of utmost importance to gain understanding about the topic. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language and extensive use of examples make this book an invaluable source of knowledge. This book should be of relevance to fish harvesters (fishermen), community groups, aboriginal organizations, fisheries managers, government managers, scientists, and many others.