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The key point in this whole article is: "comprehensive applications of Ecosystem-based Management are still rare."
EBFM is incredibly difficult to do in a meaningful way, and most media proponents have a poor understanding of what it actually entails.
Also, the below sentence just simply isn't true and hasn't been the case for a long time.
"We extract the maximum catch of each species we can without crashing their population."
NZ adrift on prioritising ocean health
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nz-adrift-on-prioritising-ocean-health
@KorimakoEcology one of the problems has been the "ecosystems are sooooo complicated" messaging from, frankly, the ecology community. There are in fact already simplified tools or frameworks to at least include some aspects of ecosystem based management to improve existing programs.
It doesn't have to be all-in, uber complicated or nothing. That is why we have ecological theory. Physics and chemistry doesn't have this hold up, but math-phobic biology always lags applying general theory.
@DrPlanktonguy That's fair up to a point. But it also seems pretty pointless to me to run an EBFM system that is so simplified it has no actual ecological relevance. It might be good PR but it doesn't do anything for ocean health.
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social@KorimakoEcology the role of theory in #ecology has been argued for decades. If you can't simplify, you won't make any progress, and nothing is really understood. I agree improvements have to be relevant, but overly complicated means you can never identify *any drivers. Always beware of any "complete" ecosystem model that someone proposes because it will be almost entirely guesses and opinion to parameterize it. Better to start with empirically derived and deterministic relationships. #MyView