David Fluharty

TL;DR: Pikitch et al. as discussed by the authors describe the potential benefits of implementation of ecosystem-based fishery management that, in their view, far outweigh the difficulties of making the transition from a management system based on maximizing individual species.

TL;DR: Integrated ecosystem assessments challenge the broader scientific community to move beyond the important task of tallying insults to marine ecosystems to developing quantitative tools that can support the decisions national and regional resource managers must make.

TL;DR: It is shown that ecosystem-based management is feasible from a range of starting points and that for any given starting point there are numerous productive paths forward.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors considered the EU's departure from purely business approach in fisheries relations with the West African coastal countries and termination of subsidization of the European fleets should be considered as important steps toward new fisheries relations.

TL;DR: Christie et al. as discussed by the authors developed a complete understanding of the social science research agenda for marine protected areas (MPAs) and developed an agenda for MPAs with the goal of improving the understanding of frequently contentious social interactions.