Note: Intro -- About Island Press -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Global Accounts -- Chapter 1: On the Importance of Fisheries Catches, with a Rationale for Their Reconstruction -- Chapter 2: Marine Fisheries Catch Reconstruction: Definitions, Sources, Methods, and Challenges -- Chapter 3: Global Catches of Large Pelagic Fishes, with Emphasis on the High Seas -- Chapter 4: The Distribution of Exploited Marine Biodiversity -- Chapter 5: The Sea Around Us Catch Database and Its Spatial Expression -- Chapter 6: The Economics of Global Marine Fisheries -- Chapter 7: Global Evaluation of High Seas Fishery Management -- Chapter 8: Global-Scale Responses and Vulnerability of Marine Species and Fisheries to Climate Change -- Chapter 9: Modeling the Global Oceans with the Ecopath Software Suite: A Brief Review and Application Example -- Chapter 10: Jellyfish Fisheries: A Global Assessment -- Chapter 11: Global Seabird Population and their Food Consumption -- Chapter 12: A Global Analysis of Mariculture Production and Its Sustainability, 1950-2030 -- Chapter 13: Pollutants in the Seas Around Us -- Chapter 14: Toward a Comprehensive Estimate of Global Marine Fisheries Catches -- Part II. Countries & -- Territories Accounts -- Fisheries by Country and Territory, 1950-2010 -- Acronyms and Glossary -- Geographic Index -- Subject Index -- Island Press | Board of Directors.

Note: Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Exhibits -- Boxes -- Box 1.1: Definitions of Fish, Landings, and Trophic Level -- Box 1.2: Why We Can't Use Mean Trophic Levels to Calculate Primary Production Required -- Box 2.1: What is a FishBase? -- Box 2.2: Definition and Interpretations of the Fishing-in-Balance (FiB) Index -- Box 4.1: Single Species Stock Assessments -- Box 4.2: Trophic Levels as Indicators of Fisheries Impacts -- Box 4.3: Sustainable Coral Reef Fisheries: An Oxymoron? -- Tables -- Table 1.1: Reported world fisheries catches and ancillary statistics -- Table 1.2: Global estimates of primary production required to sustain world fisheries -- Table A1: Some estimates of the potential fisheries of the oceans -- Figures -- Figure 1.1: FAO Areas, as used to disaggregate catch data. -- Figure 1.2: Approach used to estimate the primary production required to sustain catches. -- Figure 1.3: Frequency distribution of transfer efficiencies in 48 trophic models. -- Figure 1.4: Trophic flux model of the northeastern Venezuelan shelf. -- Figure 1.5: Transfer efficiency (%) in 48 models of trophic flows in aquaticecosystems. -- Figure 2.1: Bouncing back: Fish stocks recovered two years after a small reserve was set up. -- Figure 2.2: Global trends of mean trophic level of fisheries landings, 1950-1994. -- Figure 2.3: Trends of mean trophic level of fisheries landings in northern temperate areas. -- Figure 2.4: Trends of mean trophic levels of fisheries landings in the intertropical belt. -- Figure 2.5: High-amplitude changes of mean trophic levels in fisheries landings. -- Figure 2.6: Plots of mean trophic levels versus fisheries landings in four marine regions. -- Figure 2.7: Trends in mean trophic level of landings from marine waters. , Figure 2.8: Illustrating the effect of taxonomic overaggregation on evidence for"fishing down." -- Figure 2.9: Illustrating the effect of spatial overaggregation on evidence for "fishing down." -- Figure 2.10: Trends in mean trophic level in Indian States and Union Territories. -- Figure 2.11: Basic trends in Indian fisheries. -- Figure 2.12: Schematic representation of the fishing down process. -- Figure 3.1: Time series of global and Chinese marine fisheries catches. -- Figure 3.2: Maps used to correct Chinese marine fisheries catches. -- Figure 3.3: Absolute and per caput food fish production from marine capture. -- Figure 4.1: Estimated global fish landings, 1950-1999. -- Figure 4.2: Fisheries are characterized by a decline of mean trophic level. -- Figure 4.3: Schematic representation of the effects of environmental variation on fish population. -- Figure 5.1: Fraction of the sea bottom and adjacent waters contributing to the world's fisheries. -- Figure 5.2: Recent patterns and near-future predictions of global oil production and fish catches. -- Figure A1.1: Global marine catches, 1948-1993. -- Figure A1.2: Putative "transfer efficiency as a function of total phytoplankton production." -- Figure A2.1: Trophic level trends in Cuban landings, in the Gulf of Thailand, and in global marine fisheries. -- Figure A2.2: Relationships between trophic level and body length in fish. -- Preface -- Chapter One: Primary Production Required -- A Summer in Manila -- Primary Production Required to Sustain Global Fisheries -- A Response and a Tedious Rejoinder -- The World According to Pimm -- Coverage by the Mass Media -- A Large Fermi Solution -- Chapter Two: Fishing Down the Food Web -- Another Summer in Manila -- Fishing Down Marine Food Webs -- FAO's Comments and a Rejoinder -- The CBD and Its "Marine Trophic Index -- The Jellyfish Sandwich. , Chapter Three: China and the World's Fisheries -- Spring in Vancouver Island -- Systematic Distortion in World Fisheries Catch Trends -- The Economist, the FAO, and the World -- Chinese Responses -- The Media, or How Everyone Likes a Difference Sauce -- Chapter Four: Sustainability -- What is Sustainability, Anyway? -- Towards Sustainability in Global Fisheries -- Chapter Five: Future of Fisheries -- Stepping into the Future -- The Future for Fisheries -- The Future Revisited -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: The Origins of the 100 Million Tonnes Myth -- Appendix 2: Rejoinder: Response to Caddy et al. -- Appendix 3: Post-1998 Studies of "Fishing Down -- Endnotes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.