Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Confronting Tradeoffs

Preface Part I. Context: 1. Admit the problem 2. Why is an ecosystem approach now strongly heralded and merited? 3. Being audacious 4. Framework for scientific information to support EBFM 5. When does it make sense to do EBFM? Part II. Making EBFM Operational - Technical Considerations: 6. Ecosystem indicators 7. Expanding the stock focus: what we should have been doing yesterday 8. A systemic focus: what we can do now 9. Assessing risk: a different view of ecosystem information Part III. Institutional Considerations: 10. Why most fisheries biologists become amateur social scientists 11. Management institutions regarding EBFM 12. It's all about tradeoffs Glossary Index.