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The Fish Production Potential of the Baltic Sea

A New General Approach for Optimizing Fish Quota Including a Holistic Management Plan Based on Ecosystem Modelling

  • Presents a new approach to set fish quota based on holistic ecosystem modeling
  • Provides several scenarios and remedial strategies for the Baltic Sea managment
  • Supplies a plan to optimize a sustainable management of the Baltic Sea including a cost-benefit analysis
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Environmental Science and Engineering (ESE)

Part of the book sub series: Environmental Science (ENVSCIENCE)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction, Background and Aim

    • Lars Håkanson, Henrik Ragnarsson Stabo, Andreas C. Bryhn
    Pages 1-19
  3. Basic Information on the Baltic Sea

    • Lars Håkanson, Henrik Ragnarsson Stabo, Andreas C. Bryhn
    Pages 21-130
  4. The CoastWeb-Model – Structures and Set-Up

    • Lars Håkanson, Henrik Ragnarsson Stabo, Andreas C. Bryhn
    Pages 131-177
  5. Modeling of the Different Functional Groups

    • Lars Håkanson, Henrik Ragnarsson Stabo, Andreas C. Bryhn
    Pages 179-271
  6. Strategies for Remediation, Cost-Benefit Analyses and a Holistic Management Plan for the Baltic Sea

    • Lars Håkanson, Henrik Ragnarsson Stabo, Andreas C. Bryhn
    Pages 273-341
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 343-396

About this book

It presents a new approach to set fish quota based on holistic ecosystem modeling (the CoastWeb-model) and also a plan to optimize a sustainable management of the Baltic Sea including a cost-benefit analysis. This plan accounts for the production of prey and predatory fish under different environmental conditions, professional fishing, recreational fishing and fish cage farm production plus an analysis of associated economic values. Several scenarios and remedial strategies for Baltic Sea management are discussed and an "optimal" strategy motivated and presented, which challenges the HELCOM strategy that was accepted by the Baltic States in November 2007. The strategy advocated in this book would create more than 7000 new jobs, the total value of the fish production would be about 1600 million euro per year plus 1000 million euro per year related to the willingness-to-pay to combat the present conditions in the Baltic Sea. Our strategy would cost about 370 million euro whereas the HELCOM strategy would cost about 3100 million euro per year. The "optimal" strategy is based on a defined goal - that the water clarity in the Gulf of Finland should return to what it was 100 years ago.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Lars Håkanson, Henrik Ragnarsson Stabo, Andreas C. Bryhn

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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