Can there ever be a truly sustainable deep-sea fishery and if
so, where and under what conditions? Ecosystembased
fisheries management requires that this question be
addressed such that habitat, bycatch species, and targeted
fish populations are considered together within an ecosystem
context.
To this end, we convened the first workshop to develop an
ecosystem approach to deep-sea fisheries and to ask whether
deep-sea species could be fished sustainably. The workshop
participants were able to integrate bycatch information into
their framework but found it more difficult to integrate other
ecosystem indicators such as habitat characteristics.
(First two paragraphs from the Executive Summary
