Effective stewardship of marine fisheries increasingly recognises the need to consider interactions among species, habitats and human activities within the context of dynamic and changing ecosystems.

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is really just a new way of describing the basic principles for managing human activities in a complex environment. You’ll find the term EBM in a lot of legislation – ...

Fishing provides an essential food source as well as livelihoods for millions of people. Yet many of the world’s fisheries have extremely serious impacts on marine ecosystems and many fisheries are ...