Interrelationships between corals and fisheries

• Other Authors: Bortone, Stephen A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2014.
• Series: CRC marine biology series.
• Subjects: Coral reefs and islands > Monitoring.; Coral reef ecology.; Corals > Habitat.; Coral reef fishes > Monitoring.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781466588318; 9781466588301
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (316 pages) : illustrations.

Interrelationships Between Corals and Fisheries is derived from a workshop held by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council in Tampa, Florida in May 2013, where world authorities came together to discuss the current problems in managing tropical fisheries and offered suggestions for future dire...

Table of Contents:

• Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editor; Contributors; chapter 1: Introduction : The need to discern the relationships between corals and fisheries; chapter 2: Addressing the global decline in coral reefs and forthcoming impacts on fishery yields; chapter 3: Distribution and diversity of coral habitat, fishes, and associated fisheries in U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico; chapter 4: Implementation of Coral Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (CHAPCs) : South Atlantic Fishery Management Council process.
• Chapter 5: Characterization and interrelationships of deepwater coral/sponge habitats and fish communities off Floridachapter 6: Factors affecting coral reef fisheries in the eastern Gulf of Mexico; chapter 7: Coral community development on offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico : What we now know; chapter 8: A strategic approach to address fisheries impacts on deep-sea coral ecosystems; chapter 9: Restoring deepwater coral ecosystems and fisheries after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; chapter 10: Mangrove connectivity helps sustain coral reef fisheries under global climate change.
• Chapter 11: Augmented catch-MSY approach to fishery management in coral-associated fisherieschapter 12: Predictive mapping of coral reef fish species and communities; chapter 13: Progressing from data to information : Incorporating GIS into coral and fisheries management; chapter 14: Connectivity in the tropical coastal seascape : Implications for marine spatial planning and resource management; chapter 15: Sustaining the interrelationships between corals and fisheries : Managing for the future; Back Cover.