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We are approaching the limits to World fish yields, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain the stocks in the face of allocative disputes between fisheries and competing water uses. A new strategy is needed to integrate aquatic ecosystem management into the larger context of Environmentally Sustainable Development. This will need to span jurisdictions and interest sectors in long-range environment-economy planning. It is suggested that this process is impossible within conventional government infrastructures, and that a new movement is needed, involving multi-sector, independent public participation.
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Based on a Working Paper for the U.N. Seminar on Ecosystems Approach to Water Management. Oslo, Norway, May 1991.
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Christie, W.J. Developing the concept of sustainable fisheries. J Aquat Ecosyst Stress Recov 2, 99–109 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00044723
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