Putting Into Practice an Ecosystem Approach to Managing Sea Cucumber Fisheries

Download or read book Putting Into Practice an Ecosystem Approach to Managing Sea Cucumber Fisheries written by Steven W. Purcell and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2010 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boom-and-bust cycles are commonplace in the exploitation history of sea cucumber fisheries but pandemic overfishing to critical levels now threatens the persistence of breeding stocks for future generations of coastal fishers. Resource managers must embrace an ecosystem approach to fisheries, in which biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services and the concerns of stakeholders are taken into account alongside of the productivity of stocks and the economic gains from fishing. This booklet provides a "roadmap" for developing and implementing better management of sea cucumber fisheries.--Publisher's description.