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5 Easy Pieces: How Fishing Impacts Marine Ecosystems
Contributor(s): Pauly, Daniel (Author)

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 ISBN: 1597267198     ISBN-13: 9781597267199
Publisher: Island Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
- Science | Life Sciences - Marine Biology
- Technology & Engineering | Fisheries & Aquaculture
Dewey: 577.727
LCCN: 2009051082
Series: State of the World's Oceans
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" L (0.80 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Recycled Paper, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2011
Scitech Book News 12/01/2010 pg. 56
 
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Publisher Description:
5 Easy Pieces features five contributions, originally published in Nature and Science, demonstrating the massive impacts of modern industrial fisheries on marine ecosystems. Initially published over an eight-year period, from 1995 to 2003, these articles illustrate a transition in scientific thought--from the initially-contested realization that the crisis of fisheries and their underlying ocean ecosystems was, in fact, global to its broad acceptance by mainstream scientific and public opinion.

Daniel Pauly, a well-known fisheries expert who was a co-author of all five articles, presents each original article here and surrounds it with a rich array of contemporary comments, many of which led Pauly and his colleagues to further study. In addition, Pauly documents how popular media reported on the articles and their findings. By doing so, he demonstrates how science evolves. In one chapter, for example, the popular media pick up a contribution and use Pauly's conclusions to contextualize current political disputes; in another, what might be seen as nitpicking by fellow scientists leads Pauly and his colleagues to strengthen their case that commercial fishing is endangering the global marine ecosystem. This structure also allows readers to see how scientists' interactions with the popular media can shape the reception of their own, sometimes controversial, scientific studies.

In an epilog, Pauly reflects on the ways that scientific consensus emerges from discussions both within and outside the scientific community.

Contributor Bio(s): Pauly, Daniel: - Dr. Daniel Pauly is a French citizen who completed his high school and university studies in Germany; his doctorate (1979) and habilitation (1985) are in Fisheries Biology, from the University of Kiel.

After many years at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), in Manila, Philippines, Pauly became in 1994 Professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (formerly Fisheries Centre) of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, of which he was the Director for five years (Nov. '03-Oct. '08). Since 1999, he is also Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us research initiative (see www.seaaroundus.org), funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and devoted to studying, documenting, and promoting policies to mitigate the impact of fisheries on the world's marine ecosystems.

Pauly has supervised a large number of Master and PhD students in the Philippines, Germany, and British Columbia.

The concepts, methods, and software which Pauly (co-)developed, documented in over 500 scientific and general-interest publications, are used throughout the world, not least as a result of his teaching a multitude of courses, and supervising students in four languages on five continents. This applies especially to the Ecopath modeling approach and software (www.ecopath.org) and FishBase, the online encyclopedia of fishes (www.fishbase.org), the latter recently complemented by SeaLifeBase (www.sealifebase.org).

This work is recognized in various profiles, notably Science (Apr. '02); Nature (Jan. '03); New York Times (Jan. '03), in developing countries, and by numerous awards, among them honorary doctorates from four universities, being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science; '03); and receiving the Award of Excellence of the American Fisheries Society ('04); the International Cosmos Prize, Japan ('05), the Volvo Environmental Prize, Sweden ('06), the Excellence in Ecology Prize, Germany ('07), and the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology, Spain ('08).

Pauly has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific articles, book chapters, and shorter contributions, and authored, or (co-)edited about 30 books and reports. His books include Five Easy Pieces: The Impact of Fisheries on Marine Ecosystems, and with coauthor with Jay Maclean, In a Perfect Ocean: The State Of Fisheries And Ecosystems In The North Atlantic Ocean.
 
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