Resources
Possible Resource Books (you do not have to purchase them for the course!):
Barange, M., J.G. Field, R.P. Harris, E.E. Hofmann, R.I. Perry and F.E. Werner. 2011. Marine Ecosystems and Global Change. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
Boyd, I.L., S. Wanless and C.J. Camphuysen (Eds). 2006 Top Predators in Marine Ecosystems. Their Role in Monitoring and Management. Cambridge University Press.
Hilborn, R. and U. Hilborn. 2012 Overfishing. What everyone needs to know. Oxford University Press.
Jennings, S., M.J. Kaiser & J.D. Reynolds. 2001. Marine Fisheries Ecology. Blackwell.
Kaiser, M.J., M.J. Attrill, S. Jennings, D.N. Thomas, D.K.A. Barnes, A.S. Bierley, J.G. Hiddink, H. Kaartokallio, N.V.C. Polunin and D. G. Raffaelli. 2011. Marine Ecology: Processes, systems and impacts. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Longhurst, A. 2007. Ecological Geography of the Sea, Elsevier Inc. London, UK.
Mann, K.H. and J.R.N. Lazier 2006. Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems. Blackwell Publishing.
Parsons, L.S. 1993. Management of Marine Fisheries in Canada. NRC Press, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Resource Websites (in no particular order):
http://d2ouvy59p0dg6k.cloudfront.net/downloads/15_1471_blue_economy_6_pages_final.pdf
Blue economy – World Wildlife Federation
https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/26843/115545.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Blue economy – UN
http://www.globaloceancommission.org/.
World Ocean Commission.
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-56.98,45.77,695.
World weather patterns.
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/index-eng.htm.
DFO Science web site.
http://www.isdm-gdsi.gc.ca/csas-sccs/applications/Publications/index-eng.asp.
DFO Science stock status reports, proceedings of scientific meetings and research documents.
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/marineareas-zonesmarines/mpa-zpm/index-eng.htm.
DFO Marine Protected Areas.
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/marine/index_e.html.
Marine forecasts...a must for field researchers!.
http://www.fao.org/fishery/sofia/en.
Food and Agriculture Organization...world governing body on fisheries resource; SOFIA report on State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture.
http://www.fao.org/fishery/asfa/en.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts.
National Marine Fisheries Service (Northeast Branch) Links include stock status reports .
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishwatch/.
NMFS - Fish Watch – US Seafood Facts.
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization.
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea; the oldest marine science organization in the North Atlantic.
North Pacific Marine Science Organization.
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario.
Census of Marine Life.
Ocean Biogeographic Information System.
Marine Institute & DFO Smart Bay live time oceanographic and weather data.
http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm.
Global Information System on Fish; maintained by Univ. of B,C.
General information on fish species, particularly physical description, habitat and taxonomy.
http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=24F7211B-1.
Species at Risk … Government of Canada.
NL Dept Fisheries and Aquaculture.
Scientific, economic and social aspects of the New England fishery.
http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/.
Aquaculture Association of Canada.
Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance.
Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association.
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/visualizations/es1904/es1904page01.cfm.
Coriolis Effect … animation.
http://science.jbpub.com/oceanlink/.
Ocean Link.
Seafood News.
http://www.seafoodsource.com/.
Seafood Source News.
Algae database.
Some useful papers (non-exhaustive list; there are new papers published every week):
Allan BJM et al. 2014 Parental effects improve escape performance of juvenile reef fish in a high-CO2 world. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20132179.
Allan JD et al. 2005 Overfishing of inland waters. BioScience 55:1041-1051.
Allison EH et al. 2009 Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries. Fish and Fisheries 10:173-196.
Almany GR et al. 2007 Local replenishment of coral reef fish populations in a marine reserve. Science 316:742-744.
Anderson CNK et al. 2008 Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance. Nature 452:835-839.
Araki H et al. 2007 Genetic effects of captive breeding cause a rapid, cumulative fitness decline in the wild. Science 318:100-103
Barange M et al. 2014 Impacts of climate change on marine ecosystem production in societies dependent on fisheries. Nature Climate Change 4:211-216.
Barlow, DR et al. 2020. Links in the trophic chain: modeling functional relationships between in situ oceanography, krill, and blue whale distribution under different oceanographic regimes. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 642:207-225.
Baum JK & Worm B 2009 Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:699-714.
Beddington JR et al. 2007 Current problems in the management of marine fisheries. Science 316:1713-1716.
Berkes F et al. 2006 Globalization, roving bandits, and marine resources. Science 311:1557-1558.
Bieg, C et al. 2018. Linking humans to food webs: a framework for the classification of global fisheries. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 16(7):1-9.
Birkeland C & Dayton PK 2005 The importance in fishery management of leaving the big ones. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:356-358.
Biro PA & Post JR 2008 Rapid depletion of genotypes with fast growth and bold personality traits from harvested fish populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:2919-2922.
Boyce DG et al. 2010 Global phytoplankton decline over the past century. Nature 466:591-596.
Branch TA et al. 2006 Fleet dynamics and fishermen behavior: lessons for fisheries managers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:1647-1668.
Branch TA et al. 2010 The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries. Nature 468:431-435.
Branch TA et al. 2011 Contrasting global trends in marine fishery status obtained from catches and from stock assessments. Conservation Biology 25:777-786.
Branch TA et al. 2013 Impacts of ocean acidification on marine seafood. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28:178-186.
Britten GL et al. 2016 Changing recruitment capacity in global fish stocks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113:134-139.
Buren, A.D., M. Koen-Alonso, P. Pepin, F. Mowbry, B. Nakashima, G. Stenson, N. Ollerhead, W.A. Montevecchi. 2014. Bottom-up regulation of capelin, a keystone forage species. PLoS One 9(2):e87589. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087589.
Buren, A. D., M. Koen-Alonso and G. B. Stenson. 2014. The role of harp seals, fisheries and food availability in drive the dynamics of northern cod. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 511:265-284.
Carpenter SR et al. 2011 Early warnings of regime shifts: a whole-ecosystem experiment. Science 332:1079-1082.
Cheung WWL et al. 2009 Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios. Fish and Fisheries 10:235-251.
Cheung WWL et al. 2010 Large-scale redistribution of maximum fisheries catch potential in the global ocean under climate change. Global Change Biology 16:24-35.
Cheung WWL et al. 2013 Shrinking of fishes exacerbates impacts of global ocean changes on marine ecosystems. Nature Climate Change 3:254-258.
Cheung WWL et al. 2013 Signature of ocean warming in global fisheries catch. Nature 497:365-368.
Christensen V et al. 2014 A century of fish biomass decline in the ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 512:155-166.
Cinner JE et al. 2012 Co-management of coral reef social-ecological systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109:5219-5222.
Collie JS et al. 2008 Long-term shifts in the species composition of a coastal fish community. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:1352-1365.
Colosimo PF et al. 2005 Widespread parallel evolution in sticklebacks by repeated fixation of ectodysplasin alleles. Science 307:1928-1933.
Condon RH et al. 2012 Questioning the rise of gelatinous zooplankton in the world’s oceans. BioScience 62:160-169.
Condon RH et al. 2013 Recurrent jellyfish blooms are a consequence of global oscillations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:1000-1005.
Costello C et al. 2008 Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse? Science 321:1678-1681.
Costello C et al. 2012 Status and solutions for the world’s unassessed fisheries. Science 338:517-520.
Cury PM et al. 2011 Global seabird response to forage fish depletion—one third for the birds. Science 334:1703-1706.
Darimont CT et al. 2015 The unique ecology of human predators. Science 349:858-860.
de Mutsert K et al. 2008 Reanalyses of Gulf of Mexico fisheries data: Landings can be misleading in assessments of fisheries and fisheries ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:2740-2744.
Dulvy NK et al. 2008 You can swim but you can’t hide: the global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 18:459-482.
Dulvy NK et al. 2014 Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays. eLife 3:e00590.
Dunn DC et al. 2016 Dynamic ocean management increases the efficiency and efficacy of fisheries management. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA doi: 10.1073/pnas.1513626113.
Edgar GJ et al. 2014 Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features. Nature 506:216-220.
Essington TE et al. 2006 Fishing through marine food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103:3171-3175.
Essington TE et al. 2015 Fishing amplifies forage fish population collapses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112:6648-6652.
Evans DH et al. 2005 The multifunctional fish gill: dominant site of gas exchange, osmoregulation, acid-base regulation, and excretion of nitrogenous waste. Physiological Reviews 85:97-177.
FAO 2014 The state of world fisheries and aquaculture 2014, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. www.fao.org/3/a-i3720e/index.html.
Frank KT et al. 2005 Trophic cascades in a formerly cod-dominated ecosystem. Science 308:1621-1623.
Frank KT et al. 2011 Transient dynamics of an altered large marine ecosystem. Nature 477:86-89.
Froese R 2006 Cube law, condition factor and weight-length relationships: history, meta-analysis and recommendations. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 22:241-253.
Fu, C et al. 2018. Risky business: The combined effects of fishing and changes in primary productivity on fish communities. Ecological Modelling. 368:265-276.
Fulton, EA et al. 2019. Where the ecological gaps remain, a modelers' perspective. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7(424).
Garcia SM et al. 2012 Reconsidering the consequences of selective fisheries. Science 335:1045-1047.
Grafton RQ et al. 2006 Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:699-710.
Grafton RQ et al. 2007 Economics of overexploitation revisited. Science 318:1601.
Gregr, EJ et al. 2018. Why less complexity produces better forecasts: an independent data evaluation of kelp habitat models. Ecography.
Gregr, E.J. et al. 2020. Cascading social-ecological costs and benefits triggered by a recovering keystone predator. Science 368:1243-1247.
Gutiérrez NL et al. 2011 Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries. Nature 470:386-389.
Halpern BS et al. 2008 A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems. Science 319:948-952.
Halpern BS et al. 2012 An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean. Nature 488:615-620.
Harrison HB et al. 2012 Larval export from marine reserves and the recruitment benefit for fish and fisheries. Current Biology 22:1023-1028.
Harrison, XA et al. 2018. A brief introduction to mixed effects modelling and multi-model inference in ecology. PeerJ. 6:e4794.
Hilborn R 2007 Defining success in fisheries and conflicts in objectives. Marine Policy 31:153-158.
Hilborn R 2007 Moving to sustainability by learning from successful fisheries. Ambio 36:296-303.
Hilborn R 2013 Environmental costs of conservation victories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:9187.
Hilborn R et al. 2005 Institutions, incentives and the future of fisheries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 360:47-57.
Hilborn R et al. 2015 When is a fishery sustainable? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72:1433-1441.
Hixon MA et al. 2014 BOFFFFs: on the importance of conserving old-growth age structure in fishery populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science 71:2171-2185.
Hoegh-Guldberg O & Bruno JF 2010 The impact of climate change on the world’s marine ecosystems. Science 328:1523-1528.
Holsman, K et al. 2017. An ecosystem-based approach to marine risk assessment. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. 3(1):e01256-n/a.
Hsieh C-H et al. 2006 Fishing elevates variability in the abundance of exploited species. Nature 443:859-862.
Ishiyama, N. et al 2020. Geology-dependent impacts of forest conversion on stream fish diversity. Conservation biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13655.
Jackson JBC 2008 Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:11458-11465.
Jones GP et al. 2009 Larval retention and connectivity among populations of corals and reef fishes: history, advances and challenges. Coral Reefs 28:307-325.
Juan-Jordá MJ et al. 2011 Global population trajectories of tunas and their relatives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108:20650-20655.
Kelleher K 2005 Discards in the world’s marine fisheries. An update. FAO Fish Tech Pap 470:131pp.
Kidd KA et al. 2007 Collapse of a fish population after exposure to a synthetic estrogen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104:8897-8901.
Krkošek M et al. 2007 Declining wild salmon populations in relation to parasites from farm salmon. Science 318:1772-1775.
Lester SE et al. 2009 Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 384:33-46.
Lewis, KP et al. 2019. Forecasting capelin Mallotus villosus biomass on the Newfoundland shelf. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 616:171-183.
Libralato, S et al. 2006. A method for identifying keystone species in food web models. Ecological Modelling. 195(3-4):153-171.
Lotze HK et al. 2006 Depletion, degradation, and recovery potential of estuaries and coastal seas. Science 312:1806-1809.
MacNeil MA et al. 2015 Recovery potential of the world’s coral reef fishes. Nature 520:341-344.
McCauley DJ et al. 2015 Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean. Science 347:236-247.
McClanahan TR et al. 2011 Critical thresholds and tangible targets for ecosystem-based management of coral reef fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108:17230-17233.
Minto C et al. 2008 Survival variability and population density in fish populations. Nature 452:344-348.
Montevecchi, WA et al. 2019. Pursuit-diving seabird endures regime shift involving a three-decade decline in forage fish mass and abundance. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 627:171-178.
Morato T et al. 2006 Fishing down the deep. Fish and Fisheries 7:24-34.
Mumby PJ et al. 2006 Fishing, trophic cascades, and the process of grazing on coral reefs. Science 311:98-101.
Munday PL et al. 2009 Ocean acidification impairs olfactory discrimination and homing ability of a marine fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:1848-1852.
Munday PL et al. 2010 Replenishment of fish populations is threatened by ocean acidification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107:12930-12934.
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Myers RA et al. 2007 Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean. Science 315:1846-1850.
Naylor RL et al. 2009 Feeding aquaculture in an era of finite resources. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:15103-15110.
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Pinsky ML et al. 2013 Marine taxa track local climate velocities. Science 341:1239-1242.
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Planes S et al. 2009 Larval dispersal connects fish populations in a network of marine protected areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106:5693-5697.
Pörtner HO & Knust R 2007 Climate change affects marine fishes through the oxygen limitation of thermal tolerance. Science 315:95-97.
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Rogers LA et al. 2013 Centennial-scale fluctuations and regional complexity characterize Pacific salmon population dynamics over the past five centuries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110:1750-1755.
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Sandin SA et al. 2008 Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the Northern Line Islands. PLOS ONE 3:e1548.
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Sethi SA et al. 2010 Fishery development patterns are driven by profit but not trophic level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107:12163-12167.
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Stansbury AL et al. 2014 Grey seals use anthropogenic signals from acoustic tags to locate fish: evidence from a simulated foraging task. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282:20141595.
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