Fisheries and coastal ecosystems: the need for integrated management.

INTRODUCTION

How can it be that fisheries appear in put in commotion every time newspapers report upon them? Coastal and marine fisheries have existed for a lengthy time. Initially, people waded along the shore gathering shells and harpooned whatever marine mammal or large fish ventur inshore. single those fish and other animal species that were large and had real narrow coastal distribution were then in danger of being over-fished. The invention and increased sophistication of crafts gradually reach outed our reach offshore but, for millennia, the uncompounded bodys and the very vastness of the ocean shielded most fish populations from being over-fished; hence the