Conservation
; Decision making
; Fish
; Fisheries
; Bottom trawling
; Conservation targets
; Environmental history
; Habitats directives
; Historical data
; Historical records
; Marine protected area
; Protected area management
; Environmental protection
; bottom trawling
; conservation planning
; environmental history
; exploitation
; fishery management
; marine park
; Article
; benthos
; biodiversity
; decision making
; dogger bank
; environmental change
; environmental exploitation
; environmental management
; environmental protection
; fish
; geographic and geological phenomena
; nonhuman
; population abundance
; shifting baseline syndrome
; species habitat
; animal
; ecosystem
; fishery
; history
; North Sea
; Atlantic Ocean
; Dogger Bank
; North Sea
; Animals
; Conservation of Natural Resources
; Ecosystem
; Fisheries
; Fishes
; History, 19th Century
; History, 20th Century
; History, 21st Century
; North Sea
Scopus学科分类:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
The Dogger Bank is a subtidal hill in the North Sea that is a candidate Special Area of Conservation under the EU Habitats Directive in UK waters. Historical records indicate that the Bank has been subject to human exploitation from before the 16th century but conservation objectives have been developed using recent survey data. This has the potential to significantly underestimate the alteration this ecosystem has experienced, making the Dogger Bank an example of shifting baseline syndrome in protected area management. We compile quantitative and qualitative descriptions from historical records of change in catch rates, fishing effort, price and fish size to show that there have been prolonged declines in abundance of fish on the Bank since the early 19th century. Use of present day data to inform conservation has led to unambitious recovery targets. Historical data, we argue, are an essential input to conservation decision making. � 2017 Elsevier Ltd
Plumeridge A.A.,Roberts C.M.. Conservation targets in marine protected area management suffer from shifting baseline syndrome: A case study on the Dogger Bank[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,116(2018-01-02)