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An Ecosystem-Based Approach To Reef Fish Management In The Gulf Of Mexico, Michelle D. Masi
An Ecosystem-Based Approach To Reef Fish Management In The Gulf Of Mexico, Michelle D. Masi
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Fisheries managers have the potential to significantly improve reef fish management in the Gulf of Mexico through the use of ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management. Ecosystem-based approaches are needed to address the effects of fishing on trophodynamic interactions, to better account for ecosystem-scale processes in model projections, and to recognize the short and long-term biomass tradeoffs associated with making regulatory choices. My research was concentrated around three objectives: (1) characterizing the trophodynamic interactions between Gulf of Mexico fishes, in order to construct an invaluable tool (a Gulf of Mexico Atlantis model) to be used in ecological hypothesis testing and policy …