1. Managing Oceanic Resources

2. Fisheries Management

3. Why are worldwide Fisheries in decline?

4. “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day teach him how to fish and feed him for a lifetime”

5. Major Concerns: - Habitat Loss - Pollution - Over Fishing

6. Fisheries Concerns: - pollution - habitats - larger boats - better SONAR - bigger gear - stronger gear

7. Air and Water Pollutants are major problems

8. Striped Bass

9. Fins often show problems

11. Biological Oxygen Demand “BOD”

12. Chemical Oxygen Demand “COD”

13. BOD + COD = TOD

14. Flounder

15. Stickleback

16. Biomagnification = pyramiding of pollutants

17. Point Source Control is important

18. National Marine Fisheries Service

19. Rosefish

20. Rosefish

21. Most fishing used to happen from shore or from “day boats” from local harbors

22. Good fisheries data is hard to get

23. Ray

24. Shark

25. Controls and Concerns can be: - Local - State - Regional - National - International

26. National Fisherman Magazine

27. Fisheries Management Councils

28. Fishermen tend to be very independent

29. Now huge factory ships stay at sea for weeks catching and processing catch

30. The inherent dangers in fishing at sea are great

31. Fishing efforts are not always productive

32. “Bycatch” continues to be a problem

33. Lost nets = “Floating curtains of death”

34. Lost traps keep on catching and killing resources

35. Maximum Sustainable Yield

36. Optimum Sustainable Yield

37. Fish are usually a nutritious inexpensive food source

38. Fish Protein Concentrate “FPC”

39. Fishing Regulations can be very effective

40. Sound fisheries management practices are vital

41. Fishing in the Global Pond

42. Safety at sea is still a major issue

43. Ecosystems Approach to Ocean Management

44. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

45. IFQ’s Individual Fisheries Quotas

46. Transferable Quotas are hotly debated

47. Alien Invaders Include: - Asian whelks - European crab - Asian swamp eel - Zebra mussel

48. HAACPP Hazard Analysis and Control Point Program

49. Aquaculture carefully done can be used as a partial solution to fisheries problems

50. Aquaculture

51. Aquaculture

52. Sound Management of the Global Seas is a must

53. Acknowledgements NOAA NMFS National Fisherman Magazine
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