Fact Sheet 3. Supplements

Ecosystem Approach and the
South African West Coast lobster fishery

Ecosystem Approach and the
South African small pelagic fishery

Fact Sheet 3. supplement 1
How can science contribute to an ecosystem approach
to the South African West coast lobster fishery?
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Fact Sheet 3. supplement 2
How can science contribute to an ecosystem approach
to the South African small pelagic fisheries?
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References used to compile Fact Sheet 3 and supplements
Shannon, L.J., Cury, P.M., Nel, D., van der Lingen, C.D., Leslie, R.W., Brouwer, S.L., Cockcroft, A.C. and Hutchings, L. 2006. How can science contribute to an ecosystem approach to pelagic, demersal and rock lobster fisheries in South Africa? African Journal of Marine Science 28(1): 115-157. pdf (268kb)

Shannon, L.J., Cochrane, K.L., Moloney, C.L. and Freon, P. 2004. Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in the Southern Benguela: A Workshop Overview. In Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries in the Southern Benguela. African Journal of Marine Science, Shannon, L.J., Cochrane, K.L. and S.C. Pillar (Eds). 26: 1-8.

Further information and reading

BCLME Project
The BCLME Programme is designed to improve the structures and capacities of Namibia, Angola and South Africa to deal with the environmental problems that occur across the national boundaries, in order that the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem may be managed as a whole. Programme website

ICES Advisory Committee on Ecosystems
Report of the working group on ecoysystem effects of fishing activities (WGECO). 12-19 APRIL 2005. ICES Headquarters, Copenhagen. Download report

Fréon, P., P. Cury, L. Shannon and C. Roy. 2005. Sustainable exploitation of small pelagic fish stocks challenged by environmental and ecosystem changes: A review. BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 76(2): 385–462. Download pdf (3.7MB)

Mullon, C., P. Fréon and P. Cury. 2005. The dynamics of collapse in world fisheries. Fish and Fisheries, 6, 11-120. Download pdf (419kb)

Cury, P., Fréon, P., Moloney, C., Shannon, L. and Shin, Y. 2005. Processes and patterns of interactions in marine fish populations: an ecosystem perspective. In The SEA: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the study of the Seas. The global coastal ocean: multiscale interdisciplinary processes (A. Robinson and K. Brink Eds.). Chapter 14. Harvard University Press, Cambridge: 475-554.

Cury. P.M. 2005. Towards ‘Ecosystem Oceanography’. Science, 2005. (Book review: Stenseth N.C., G. Ottersen, J.W. Hurrell and A. Belgrano (eds.). Marine ecosystems and climate variation. The North Atlantic: a Comparative Perspective. Oxford University Press, 252pp. (2004)). Vol. 308, 358.