Case Study 2:  Overfishing

Overfishing

in-class handout
San Francisco Chronicle article

What can I eat?

California Academy of Sciences: Seafood Buyer's Guide (printer friendly table)
California Academy of Sciences: Seafood Buyer's Guide article

General information: background and policy

overfishing
WWF Creating a Sea Change for Fisheries
Monterey Bay Aquarium web site on overfishing
Environmental Defense: Creating Incentives to Curb Overfishing
United Nation's fisheries program
PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization
World Bank
German government summary of UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
National Marine Fisheries
David Balton, US State Department, address at conference on fisheries management, May 1999
Marine Conservation Biology Institute
American Fisheries Society
Green Peace: Global Fisheries Crisis

Commercial Fishing (Industry Sites)

California Seafood Council
New Jersey Fishing: In defense of commercial fishing
New Jersey Fishing

Farming

National Marine Fisheries aquaculture
British Columbia salmon farming
Florida International Shrimp Harvesters
Fish Farming News
Fish Farming versus Commercial Fishing (PISCES)
Global fish crisis: Are farms the answer? (Guardian)

California and Pacific Ocean fish

General
Fishermen worry about future (ESPN Outdoors)
State of California Nearshore Fishery Management Plan

Abalone
white abalone
California's White Abalone Finally Added to U.S. Endangered Species (Earth Crash)
U.S. Abalone spawns pearl of an idea for change in business (Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal)
White Abalone - An Extinct Possibility? (Konstantin Karpov, Kelp Forest, May 1998)
UC Davis Seafood Network Information Center: Abalone
State of California: Abalone Information
Marine Resources Issues: Closure of Southern California's Abalone Fishery

Rockfish
National Marine Fisheries: Coordinates for Rockfish Conservation Areas
Pacific Marine Conservation Council: History of the Rockfish Fishery
Pacific Marine Conservation Council: Rockfish Campaign
The Fish Sniffer Online (Editorial): PFMC Cuts 2 Months of Rockfishing In Central California
Anderson Valley Advertiser: Fishery Council Closes The Continental Shelf For Rockfish And Lingcod Fishing!
The Sex Life of Rockfish
Environmental News Network: California rockfish near point of no return

Salmon
NMFS: The Net-pen Salmon Farming Industry in the Pacific Northwest
NMFS: 2002 Management Measures
NMFS: Review of Potential Impacts of Atlantic Salmon Culture on Puget Sound Chinook Salmon and Hood Canal Summer-Run Chum Salmon Evolutionarily Significant
CNN
Alaskan Fishing Adventures (tourism)
NMFS: background on salmon
Alaska Department of Fish and Game: background on salmon
Warming trend lands Alaskan salmon in hot water (Discovery Channel)
The Pacific Salmon Treaty: An Alaskan Perspective
Sea Sense: Salmon

Sardines
National Wildlife Federation: School Riddles (Why do fish school?)
National Marine Fisheries: Reallocation of Pacific Sardines
sardine life history (ORST)
Climate and overfishing (U. Wisconsin)
California Seafood Council

Tuna and Other Big Predator Fish
Montery Bay Aquarium: Giant Bluefin Tuna
Southwest Regional Office of National Marine Fisheries Service: Regional Fishing Vessel Registry Tuna and Billfish Fishermen
A tuna tale: Managine a fishery to increase positives, reduce negatives (The Fishermens Coalition)
UC Davis Seafood Network Information Center: Albacore

Fishing outside of Pacific/California waters

North Sea cod
Fish and chips: Guardian (UK newspaper)
North Sea cod endangered: Guardian
North Sea cod (Greenpeace)
Cod Breed Early to Combat Overfishing (Daily Telegraph)
Global Warming could decimate cod (New Scientist)
Cod ``Fingerprinting'' May Aid Conservation (National Geographic)

Galapagos Sea Cucumbers
Galapagos sea cucumbers
Galapagos plans from 1995
The fruit of the sea (Environmental News Network)
Coral Reef Creatures: Sea Cucumbers (Singapore Zoological Gardens)
Sea Cucumber Loss in the Galapagos (American University Trade and the Environment summary)
WWF summary on Galapagos

New England Lobster
Lobsterconservation.com
Fishing in Acadia National Park, Maine (GORP)
Lobster Institute including Habitat Report (University of Maine)
Lobster Fisheries Resource (NMFS)
Abundance of New England lobsters baffles biologists (Environmental News Network)

Coral reef fish
Jamaican reef fish
Reefs at Risk: Threats to the World's Coral Reefs (World Resources Institute)
ReefGuardian International
Seaweb: Threats to Coral Reefs

Big Predator Fish: Bluefin Tuna and Swordfish
Atlantic bluefin tuna: International Management of a Shared Resource
swordfish
Atlantic swordfish (National Marine Fisheries)
Chefs bar swordfish from menus to protest overfishing (CNN)
Atlantic swordfish and bluefin tuna
The Forgotten Giants: Sharks, Tuna and Billfish (Audobon)