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Conventional fishery management practices have failed to prevent the collapse of numerous fish stocks around the world. Amid growing concern about our ability to protect marine biodiversity and ecosystem integrity, scientists and managers alike are seeking alternative management tools. One of the most promising of those is no-take marine reserves - areas of the sea where all consumptive use of natural resources is prohibited.

Marine Reserves is the first guidebook on no-take marine reserves, providing a synthesis of information on the underlying science, as well as design and implementation issues. The book describes the need for marine reserves and their potential benefits, examines how reserves can be designed to achieve specific objectives, and considers gaps in our knowledge and the research needed to address those gaps. Chapters examine:

• marine biological and geophysical issues relevant to reserve design
• potential economic and biological benefits of marine reserves, and the likelihood of achieving them
• influence of social and economic factors on reserve design and implementation
• lessons learned from past efforts to establish marine reserves

Marine Reserves represents an invaluable guide for fishery managers and marine protected area managers in creating and implementing effective marine reserves, and an accessible reference for environmentalists and others concerned with the conservation of marine resources. It will also be useful in undergraduate and graduate courses in marine ecology, fisheries, marine policy, and related fields. ... Read more

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Essential reading for managers and activists alike
Extraordinary review of the vitally important role of protected areas in the marine environment for biodiversity conservation AND economic yield for fisheries. Too bad the idiots who run the world's fisheries are apparently too illiterate to read and absorb it... ... Read more

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Special Publication 22The purpose of this list is to provide a checklist of species and to recommend selected commonnames for North American Cnidaria and Ctenophora, thereby achieving uniformity and avoidingconfusion in the nomenclature of their common names. In addition to stabilizing common namenomenclature, we hope that this list will heighten public awareness of the diversity and widedistribution of cnidarians in North America, help to identify taxonomic groups in need ofsystematic revision, and serve as a preliminary guide to the literature required for theidentification of species.Lists more than 1,300 taxa of jellyfishes, hydroids, corals, anemones, and comb jellies, and setsthe standard for vernacular names of the more widely known species.This book includes: index for 1300 taxa of jellyfishes, hydroids, corals, anemones, and combjellies, extensive references and an extensive bibliography. ... Read more

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Special Publication 19 Thorough reviews of the ways forestry, grazing, mining, and recreation affect salmonidresources, and of the best management practices to mitigate those effects. Emphasis is on westernNorth America but the principles are broadly relevant elsewhere. This book is intended for:resource scientists, resource managers, fishery biologists, conservationists, fishery, forest andother natural resource management students. ... Read more

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Under the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act (FCMA), managers are required to use the best scientific information available in the preparation of federal fishery management plans (National Standard 2 in the FCMA). However, the Act provides no further guidance as to how conformance to this standard should be determined. Because adherence to this standard has often been contentious, Congress has considered adding a definition for what constitutes best scientific information available in the reauthorization of the FCMA. This report examines both the current application and the controversy over the standard and concludes that a legislative definition would be too inflexible to accommodate regional differences and future advances in science and technology. Instead, the report recommends that NOAA Fisheries adopt procedural guidelines to ensure that the scientific information used in the development of fishery management plans is relevant and timely and is the product of processes characterized by inclusiveness, transparency and openness, timeliness, and peer review. ... Read more

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Symposium 10: Proceeding of the 1988 Fisheries Bioengineering Symposium,held at Portland, OR.This book presents 65 papers based on the interface of biology and engineering. Most of thesymposium was devoted to solutions in two divergent topics: habitat improvement andrestoration, and mitigation via hatcheries, which define the main alternatives available forcorrecting fishery losses in developed river and which are the professional concerns ofbioengineering. New approaches to habitat rehabilitation, fish passage design, and hatcheryfunction are covered. This book is intended for salmonid fishery managers and hatcherymanagers. ... Read more