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E. K. Pikitch,1* C. Santora,1 E. A. Babcock, 1 A. Bakun,2 R. Bonfil,3 D. O. Conover,4 P. Dayton,5 P. Doukakis,1 D. Fluharty,6 B. Heneman,7 E. D. Houde,8 J. Link,9 P. A. Livingston,10 M. Mangel,11 M. K. McAllister,12 J. Pope,13 K. J. Sainsbury14
Ecosystem-based fishery management (EBFM) is a new direction for fishery management, essentially reversing the order of management priorities so that management starts with the ecosystem rather than a target species. EBFM aims to sustain healthy marine ecosystems and the fisheries they support. Pikitch et al. describe the potential benefits of implementation of EBFM that, in their view, far outweigh the difficulties of making the transition from a management system based on maximizing individual species.
1Pew Institute for Ocean Science, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), University of Miami, New York, NY 10022, USA. 2RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149-1098, USA. 3Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY 10460, USA. 4Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA. 5Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093-0227, USA. 6School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. 7Commonweal Ocean Policy Program, Bolinas, CA 94924, USA. 8University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD 20688, USA. 9Food Web Dynamics Program, National Marine Fisheries Service--Northeast Fishery Science Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA. 10Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA 98115, USA. 11Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. 12Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Imperial College, Royal School of Mines Building, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK. 13National Research Council (Europe) Ltd., Norfolk NR34 OBT, UK. 14Division of Marine Research, CSIRO, Tasmania 7001, Australia.
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: epikitch{at}rsmas. miami.edu
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