The oxygen constraint (Chapter 2) - Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries

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The oxygen constraint
Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries
A Global Perspective
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: toward ecosystem-based management of fisheries
Life in the oceans
The oxygen constraint
Organizing and disseminating marine biodiversity information: the FishBase and SeaLifeBase story
The science in FishBase
II
Evaluating impact on marine life
III
Managing living resources
IV
The human side
Impacting policy
Index
References
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Published online by Cambridge University Press:
05 June 2012
By
Andrew Bakun
Edited by
Villy Christensen
and
Jay Maclean
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Andrew Bakun
Affiliation:
University of Miami, USA
Villy Christensen
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Jay Maclean
Affiliation:
Fisheries Consultant
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Book contents
Frontmatter
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: toward ecosystem-based management of fisheries
Life in the oceans
The oxygen constraint
Organizing and disseminating marine biodiversity information: the FishBase and SeaLifeBase story
The science in FishBase
II
Evaluating impact on marine life
III
Managing living resources
IV
The human side
Impacting policy
Index
References
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Summary
In trying to understand processes and mechanisms regulating ocean ecosystems, we humans, being terrestrial mammals, naturally rely on intuitions and common sense notions formed by our terrestrial experiences as well as on our inherent terrestrial-mammalian evolved capacities and inclinations. As a result, many aspects of life that may be unique to organisms evolved and operating within marine situations may tend to elude our intellectual grasp and even our notice.
In the early 1980s, I worked with Daniel Pauly and other colleagues on developing an international collaborative “Ocean Science and Living Resources” (OSLR) program (Bakun
et al
., 1982). This experience presented me with, among other things, an exposure to Pauly's developing theory on the special role of oxygen in the marine situation (Pauly, 1979, 1981, 1984, 2010). The interest was on individual-organism-scale biological issues, such as growth rate and maturation timing. Not being a biologist, but rather an oceanographer habitually focused on regional population-scale issues, I found the notions intriguing while not yet beginning to apprehend their significance to the particular questions that were consuming my own attention.
But, the “seeds” were planted in my mind. Daniel's early insights on the size-related oxygen issues faced by fishes in the ocean led me over the years to the notions outlined here, and are an example of how my own joy in the “ocean quest” has been enriched by his influence.
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The oxygen constraint
By
Andrew Bakun
, University of Miami, USA
Edited by
Villy Christensen
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Jay Maclean
Book: Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries
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Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920943.004
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