A Fishery Manager's Guidebook (Second Edition)

This volume is intended to contribute to improving this unsatisfactory state by addressing the widespread need for information and guidance on the broad and often complex task of fisheries management. It is an updated and expanded edition of the first version of “A fishery manager’s guidebook” which was published as a FAO Fisheries Technical Paper in 2002.

The major part of this new edition is divided into five parts intended to cover the range of concerns, tools and techniques essential to the modern fisheries manager, whether that manager is an individual or a formal or informal group. Following the Introduction:

• Part I examines the primary dimensions of fisheries: biological, ecological, social and economic
• Part II looks at the legal and institutional characteristics of fisheries
• Part III explores the tools that fishery managers have to achieve the objectives expected from a fishery
• Part IV discusses the role of scientific information of indicators and reference points
• Part V moves into implementation of fisheries management and includes a chapter on special considerations in small-scale fisheries

This landmark publication is aimed at fishery managers and scientists. All libraries in research establishments and universities where fisheries and aquatic sciences are studied and taught will need copies of this important volume.

Fisheries around the world make essential contributions to human well-being including the provision of basic food supplies, employment, recreational opportuniti