Issue 24

Abstract

As readers of this newsletter know, fisheries have huge, but long neglected impacts on the structure of marine ecosystems. Fisheries have begun to endanger marine biodiversity as well, and especially the large, longlived species that have sustained fisheries for centuries. Indeed, the prevailing trends in fisheries are so frustrating to those who try to document and reverse them that hearing about the similar travails of colleagues working, e.g. on forestry, can give one a perverse sense of schadenfreude.