editado por Richard J. Beamish, Brian J. Rothschild. -- Springer, 2009.

xvi, 736 p.; 24 cm. -- (Fish & fisheries ; 31)

ISBN 978-1-4020-9209-1.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Contenido: On the future of fisheries science -- Biodiversity, spatial management, and the ecosystem approach -- Biodiversity and the future of fisheries science -- The implications of a paradigm shift in ocean resource management for fisheries stock assessment -- Ecosystem-based management of what? An emerging approach for balancing conflicting objectives in marine resource management -- The changing nature of fisheries management and implications for science -- Astonishment, stupefaction, and a naturalist s approach to ecosystem-based fisheries studies --The high-dimensional future of fisheries science -- Stock assessment: operational models in support of fisheries management -- Fisheries science in the future -- Some observations on the role of trophodynamic models for ecosystem approaches to fisheries -- Why and how could indicators be used in a ecosystem approach to fisheries management? -- Fisheries abundance cycles in ecosystem and economic management of California fish and invertebrate resources -- Ecosystem models of fishing effects: present status and a suggested future paradigm -- The impacts of environmental change and ecosystem structure on the early life stages of fish: a perspective on establishing predictive capacity -- The promise of an ecosystem approach: lessons from the past - Hopes for the future -- Technology for evaluating marine ecosystems in the early twenty-first century -- Acoustic methods: brief review and prospects for advancing fisheries research -- Combining techniques for remotely assessing pelagic nekton: getting the whole picture -- Using the seabed AUV to assess populations of groundfish in untrawlable areas -- Technology answer to the requirements set by the ecosystem approach -- Accounting for spatial population structure in stock assessment: past, present, and future -- Trends in fishery genetics -- The uncertain future of assessment uncertainty -- Model selection uncertainty and Bayesian model averaging in fisheries recruitment modelling -- Feedback control in pacific salmon fisheries -- The future of fisheries science: merging stock assessment with risk assessment, for better fisheries management -- The future of fisheries science on Canada s west coast is keeping up with the changes -- Climate and fisheries: the past, the future, and the need for coalescence -- Future research requirements for understanding the effects of climate variability on fisheries for their management -- Opportunities in social science research -- Restoring rivers in the twenty-first century: science challenges in a management context.