Fishing Down Aquatic Food Webs

By Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen, R. Froese, M. L. Deng Palomares. 2000

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. S. Jennings
2. T. McClanahan
3. Nicholas Polunin
4. J. Cinner
5. J. Pinnegar
6. C. O’Brien
7. K. Stergiou
8. V. Karpouzi

In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Jennings
2. T. McClanahan
3. Nicholas Polunin
4. J. Cinner
5. J. Pinnegar
6. C. O’Brien
7. V. Karpouzi
8. K. Stergiou

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• Geolocation of free-ranging fish on the European continental shelf as determined from environmental variables (2003, background): “Given the current universally unsustainable levels of fisheries exploitation (Myers et al. 1997; Pauly et al. 2000; Jackson 2001), we believe that the methods described here have wide potential applications with regards the description of the spatial dynamics and migration of commercially exploite”
• Changing Community States in the Gulf of Maine: Synergism Between Invaders, Overfishing and Climate Change (2004, background): “of fishing down a food web from predators to an important omnivorous grazer (Pauly et al. 2000).”
• Socioeconomic factors that lead to overfishing in small-scale coral reef fisheries of Papua New Guinea (2006, methodology): “In order to estimate trophic level, we obtained the mean trophic level for each species from FishBase (Froese & Pauly 2000), where compiled diet composition data and the trophic level of each fraction of the diet of the fish were used to calculate the mean trophic level (Pauly et al. 2000).”
• Status, trends and the future of the marine pelagic ecosystem (2002, background): “Total fish harvest has remained relatively constant for several years but the mean trophic level of fisheries landings declined from 1950 to 1994 (Pauly et al. 1998, 2000), which strongly indicates that fisheries are switching to smaller species lower in the food web.”
• From Invisibility to Transparency: Identifying the Implications (2008, background): “…perceptions do shift according to our experience, so that the concept of a “big tree” or a “big halibut” has a different meaning for the residents of coastal British Columbia in the 21st century than it did to the generations who lived there in the 19th or early 20th centuries (Pauly et al. 2000).”
• Growth, feed utilization and body composition of tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) fed with cottonseed meal-based diets in a recirculating system (2001, background): “However, the world ®sh meal production is not expected to increase further (Pauly et al. 2000).”
• Network ecology: topological constraints on ecosystem dynamics (2004, background): “the shortening of the average trophic chain length in marine food webs (122; 123).”
• Interactions between Cetaceans and Fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea (2002, background): “For instance, the increasing catch of small pelagic species has masked the stagnation or impoverishment in take of demersal fish (FAO 1997a, Pauly et al. 2000), and it has been stressed that “the world fish supply is increasingly relying on low value species, characterised by large fluctuations in…”
• Managing mangroves with benthic biodiversity in mind: Moving beyond roving banditry (2008, background): “Consequences of ‘fishing down’ marine food webs as top predators are over-harvested are well understood (Pauly et al., 2000) and show up in the choices and costs of seafood available in markets.”
• Size-related trophodynamic changes in three target fish species recovering from intensive trawling (2002, background): “However, given that the body mass of fishes can increase by 5 orders of magnitude during their lifetimes, and that trophic level is expected to increase with body size (Jennings et al. 2002), a reduction in mean size associated with fishingcould accentuate the apparent decline in mean trophic level,”
• Establishment of the introduced kelp Undaria pinnatifida following dieback of the native macroalga Phyllospora comosa in Tasmania, Australia (2004, background): “The effects of stresses, such as climate change (Coelho et al. 2000), species removals ( Pauly et al. 2000 ) and habitat alteration due to fishing (Collie et al. 1997; Watling and Norse 1998; Pederson 2003), represent ongoing threats to native algal communities.”
• The functioning of marine ecosystems: a fisheries perspective. (2003, unknown): “(Christensen, 2000; Pauly et al., 2000).”
• Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish (2004, methodology): “TROPH values were calculated from each dataset using TrophLab (Pauly et al., 2000d), which is a stand-alone application for estimating TROPHs and their standard errors (SE) from two different types of data: (a) from quantitative diet composition data (i.e., using the weight or volume contribution…”
• Long‐term changes in the trophic level of the Celtic Sea fish community and fish market price distribution (2002, background): “Ecological Society, Journal of Applied Ecology, 39, 377‐390 marked in the north-east Atlantic (FAO area 27), and reflects a gradual transition from long-lived high trophic level piscivorous fish towards short-lived invertebrates and planktivorous fishes at lower trophic levels ( Pauly et al. 1998a, ”