Unintended cultivation, shifting baselines, and conflict between objectives for fisheries and conservation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 677-688

  Brown, Christopher J ^a   Trebilco, Rowan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Habitat modification; Over fishing; Predation; Social ecological systems; Stable state; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERFISHING; TIME SERIES;

ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FISHERY; HUMAN; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FISHERIES; HUMANS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84900458751     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12267     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Andersen, K. H., and M. Pedersen. 2010. Damped trophic cascades driven by fishing in model marine ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277:795-802.
2. Borer, E., E. Seabloom, J. Shurin, K. Anderson, C. Blanchette, B. Broitman, S. Cooper, and B. Halpern. 2005. What determines the strength of a trophic cascade? Ecology 86:528-537.
3. Boudreau, S., and B. Worm. 2010. Top-down control of lobster in the Gulf of Maine: insights from local ecological knowledge and research surveys. Marine Ecology Progress Series 403:181-191.
4. Branch, T. A., R. Watson, E. A. Fulton, S. Jennings, C. R. McGilliard, G. T. Pablico, D. Ricard, and S. R. Tracey. 2010. The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries. Nature 468:431-435.
5. Brander, K. 2010. Reconciling biodiversity conservation and marine capture fisheries production. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2:416-421.
6. Campos, J., A. Bio, J. Cardoso, R. Dapper, J. I. J. Witte, and H. W. van der Veer. 2010. Fluctuations of brown shrimp Crangon crangon abundance in the western Dutch Wadden Sea. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 405:203-219.
7. Casini, M., J. Hjelm, J.-C. Molinero, J. Lövgren, M. Cardinale, V. Bartolino, A. Belgrano, and G. Kornilovs. 2009. Trophic cascades promote threshold-like shifts in pelagic marine ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:197-202.
8. Chades, I., J. M. R. Curtis, and T. G. Martin. 2012. Setting realistic recovery targets for two interacting endangered species, Sea Otter and Northern Abalone. Conservation Biology 26:1016-1025.
9. Dayton, P. K., E. Sala, M. J. Tegner, and S. Thrush. 2000. Marine reserves: parks, baselines, and fishery enhancement. Bulletin of Marine Science 66:617-634.
10. Doroff, A., and A. Burdin. 2011. Enhydra lutris. IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.1.
11. Essington, T. E., A. H. Beaudreau, and J. Wiedenmann. 2006. Fishing through marine food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:3171-3175.
12. Fanshawe, S., G. R. VanBlaricom, and A. A. Shelly. 2003. Restored top carnivores as detriments to the performance of marine protected areas intended for fishery sustainability: A case study with red abalones and sea otters. Conservation Biology 17:273-283.
13. Fogarty, M. J., and S. A. Murawski. 1998. Large-scale disturbance and the structure of marine systems: fishery impacts on Georges Bank. Ecological Applications 8:6-22.
14. Frank, K. T., B. Petrie, N. L. Shackell, and J. S. Choi. 2006. Reconciling differences in trophic control in mid-latitude marine ecosystems. Ecology Letters 9:1096-1105.
15. Grabowski, J. H., E. J. Clesceri, A. J. Baukus, J. Gaudette, M. Weber, and P. O. Yund. 2010. Use of Herring Bait to Farm Lobsters in the Gulf of Maine. Plos One 5. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010188
16. Gribble, N. A. 2003. GBR-prawn: modelling ecosystem impacts of changes in fisheries management of the commercial prawn (shrimp) trawl fishery in the far northern Great Barrier Reef. Fisheries Research 65:493-506.
17. Gulland, J. A., and S. Garcia. 1984. Observed patterns in multispecies fisheries. Pages 155-190 in R. M. May, editor. Exploitation of marine communities. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
18. Halpern, B. S., et al. 2013. Achieving the triple bottom line in the face of inherent trade-offs among social equity, economic return, and conservation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110:6229-6234.
19. Hamilton, L. C., B. C. Brown, and R. O. Rasmussen. 2003. West Greenland's Cod-to-Shrimp transition: Local dimensions of climatic change. Artic 56:271-282.
20. Hamilton, L. C., R. L. Haedrich, and C. M. Duncan. 2004. Above and below the water: social/ecological transformation in Northwest Newfoundland. Population and Environment 25:195-215.
21. Hecky, R. E., R. Mugidde, P. S. Ramlal, M. R. Talbot, and G. W. Kling. 2010. Multiple stressors cause rapid ecosystem change in Lake Victoria. Freshwater Biology 55:19-42.
22. Hiddink, J. G., A. F. Johnson, R. Kingham, and H. Hinz. 2011. Could our fisheries be more productive? Indirect negative effects of bottom trawl fisheries on fish condition. Journal of Applied Ecology 48:1441-1449.
23. Hiddink, J. G., A. D. Rijnsdorp, and G. Piet. 2008. Can bottom trawling disturbance increase food production for a commercial fish species? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:1393-1401.
24. Hinke, J. T., I. C. Kaplan, K. Aydin, G. M. Watters, R. J. Olson, and J. F. Kitchell. 2004. Visualizing the food-web effects of fishing for tunas in the Pacific Ocean. Ecology and Society 9:10. Available from http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art10.
25. Howarth, L. M., C. M. Roberts, R. H. Thurstan, and B. D. Stewart. 2013. The unintended consequences of simplifying the sea: making the case for complexity. Fish and Fisheries DOI 10.1111/faf.12041.
26. Jackson, J. B. 2001. What was natural in the coastal oceans? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98:5411-5418.
27. Jackson, J. B. C., et al. 2001. Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems. Science 293:629-638.
28. Jennings, S., and J. L. Blanchard. 2004. Fish abundance with no fishing: predictions based on macroecological theory. Journal of Animal Ecology 73:632-642.
29. Jennings, S., S. Greenstreet, and J. Reynolds. 1999. Structural change in an exploited fish community: a consequence of differential fishing effects on species with contrasting life histories. Journal of Animal Ecology 68:617-627.
30. Lindegren, M., C. Mollmann, and L. A. Hansson. 2010. Biomanipulation: A tool in marine ecosystem management and restoration? Ecological Applications 20:2237-2248.
31. Lindeman, R. L. 1942. The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology. Ecology 23:399-417.
32. Madin, E. M. P., S. D. Gaines, J. S. Madin, and R. R. Warner. 2010. Fishing indirectly structures macroalgal assemblages by altering herbivore behavior. The American Naturalist 176:785-801.
33. Marshall, K. N., and T. E. Essington. 2011. Energetic conditions promoting top-down control of prey by predators. Plos One 6. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029723.
34. May, R. M., J. R. Beddington, C. W. Clark, S. J. Holt, and R. M. Laws. 1979. Management of multispecies fisheries. Science 205:267-277.
35. Micheli, F., et al. 2008. Persistence of depleted abalones in marine reserves of central California. Biological Conservation 141:1078-1090.
36. Mumby, P. J., R. S. Steneck, A. J. Edwards, R. Ferrari, R. Coleman, A. R. Harborne, and J. P. Gibson. 2012. Fishing down a Caribbean food web relaxes trophic cascades. Marine Ecology Progress Series 445:13-24.
37. Pandolfi, J. M., et al. 2005. Are US coral reefs on the slippery slope to slime? Science 307:1725-1726.
38. Pauly, D. 1995. Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 10:430.
39. Perry, R. I., R. E. Ommer, M. Barange, S. Jentoft, B. Neis, and U. R. Sumaila. 2011. Marine social-ecological responses to environmental change and the impacts of globalization. Fish and Fisheries 12:427-450.
40. Pinnegar, J. K., S. Jennings, C. M. O'Brien, and N. V. C. Polunin. 2002. Long-term changes in the trophic level of the Celtic Sea fish community and fish market price distribution. Journal of Applied Ecology 39:377-390.
41. Pitcher, T. J. 2001. Fisheries managed to rebuild ecosystems? Reconstructing the past to salvage the future. Ecological Applications 11:601-617.
42. Planque, B., J. M. Fromentin, P. Cury, K. F. Drinkwater, S. Jennings, R. I. Perry, and S. Kifani. 2010. How does fishing alter marine populations and ecosystems sensitivity to climate? Journal of Marine Systems 79:403-417.
43. Reisewitz, S. E., J. A. Estes, and C. A. Simenstad. 2006. Indirect food web interactions: sea otters and kelp forest fishes in the Aleutian archipelago. Oecologia 146:623-631.
44. Rijnsdorp, A. D., and B. Vingerhoed. 2001. Feeding of plaice Pleuronectes platessa L. and sole Solea solea (L.) in relation to the effects of bottom trawling. Journal of Sea Research 45:219-229.
45. Salomon, A. K., S. K. Gaichas, N. T. Shears, J. E. Smith, E. M. P. Madin, and S. D. Gaines. 2010. Key features and context-dependence of fishery-induced trophic cascades. Conservation Biology 24:382-394.
46. Scheffer, M., S. Carpenter, J. A. Foley, C. Folke, and B. Walker. 2001. Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems. Nature 413:591-596.
47. Sethi, S. A., T. A. Branch, and R. Watson. 2010. Global fishery development patterns are driven by profit but not trophic level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107:12163-12167.
48. Shurin, J. B., E. T. Borer, E. W. Seabloom, K. Anderson, C. A. Blanchette, B. Broitman, S. D. Cooper, and B. S. Halpern. 2002. A cross-ecosystem comparison of the strength of trophic cascades. Ecology Letters 5:785-791.
49. Shurin, J. B., and E. W. Seabloom. 2005. The strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems: predictions from allometry and energetics. Journal of Animal Ecology 74:1029-1038.
50. Sibert, J., J. Hampton, P. Kleiber, and M. Maunder. 2006. Biomass, size, and trophic status of top predators in the Pacific Ocean. Science 314:1773-1776.
51. Steneck, R. S. 1997. Fisheries-induced biological changes to the structure and function of the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem. Pages 151-165 in G. T. Wallace and E. F. Braasch, editors. Proceedings of the Gulf of Maine Ecosystem Dynamics Scientific Symposium and Workshop. RARGOM Report 91-1. Regional Association for Research in the Gulf of Maine, Hanover, NH.
52. Steneck, R. S. 2006. Is the American lobster, Homarus americanus, overfished? A review of overfishing with an ecologically based perspective. Bulletin of Marine Science 78:607-632.
53. Steneck, R. S., M. H. Graham, B. J. Bourque, D. Corbett, J. M. Erlandson, J. A. Estes, and M. J. Tegner. 2002. Kelp forest ecosystems: biodiversity, stability, resilience and future. Environmental Conservation 29:436-459.
54. Steneck, R. S., et al. 2011. Creation of a gilded trap by the high economic value of the Maine lobster fishery. Conservation Biology 25:904-912.
55. Steneck, R. S., A. Leland, D. C. McNaught, and J. Vavrinec. 2013. Ecosystem flips, locks and feedbacks: the lasting effects of fisheries on Maine's kelp forest ecosystem. Bulletin of Marine Science 89:31-55.
56. Thurstan, R. H., and C. M. Roberts. 2010. Ecological meltdown in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland: two centuries of change in a coastal marine ecosystem. Plos One 5. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0011767.
57. Turner, S. J., S. Thrush, J. Hewitt, V. Cummings, and G. Funnell. 1999. Fishing impacts and the degradation or loss of habitat structure. Fisheries Management and Ecology 6:401-420.
58. Walters, C., S. J. D. Martell, V. Christensen, and B. Mahmoudi. 2008. An Ecosim model for exploring Gulf of Mexico ecosystem management options: implications of including multistanza life-history models for policy predictions. Bulletin of Marine Science 83:251-271.
59. Ward, P., and R. A. Myers. 2005. Shifts in open-ocean fish communities coinciding with the commencement of commercial fishing. Ecology 86:835-847.
60. Watson, J., and J. A. Estes. 2011. Stability, resilience, and phase shifts in rocky subtidal communities along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Ecological Monographs 81:215-239.
61. Worm, B., et al. 2009. Rebuilding global fisheries. Science 325:578-585.
62. Worm, B., and R. A. Myers. 2003. Meta-analysis of cod-shrimp interactions reveals top-down control in oceanic food webs. Ecology 84:162-173.