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Censo de peces y de todo aquello que comen: qué progreso aporta El Censo de la Vida Marina a la ciencia pesquera
Author(s) -
O'Dor Ron,
Boustany Andre M.,
Chittenden Cedar M.,
Costello Mark J.,
Moustahfid Hassan,
Payne John,
Steinke Dirk,
Stokesbury Michael J. W.,
Vanden Berghe Edward
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1080/03632415.2012.714323
Subject(s) - census , marine life , fishery , fisheries science , geography , apex predator , oceanography , fishing , fisheries management , environmental resource management , habitat , ecology , biology , population , environmental science , demography , sociology , geology
The Census of Marine Life was a 10‐year, international research effort to explore poorly known ocean habitats and conduct large‐scale experimentation with new technology. The goal of Census 2010 in its mission statement was to describe what did live in the oceans, what does live in the oceans, and what will live in the ocean. Many of the findings and techniques from census research may prove valuable in making a transition, which many governments have publicly endorsed, from single‐species fisheries management to more holistic ecosystem management. Census researchers sampled continental margins, mid‐Atlantic ridges, ocean floor vents and seeps, and abyssal plains and polar seas and organized massive amounts of past and new information in a public online database called the Ocean Biogeographic Information System ( www.iobis.org ). The census described and categorized seamount biology worldwide for its vulnerability to fishing, advanced large‐scale animal tracking with acoustic arrays and satellite archival tags, and accelerated species identification, including nearshore, coral reef, and zooplankton sampling using genetic barcoding and pyrotag sequencing for microbes and helped to launch the exciting new field of marine environmental history. Above all, the census showed the value of investing in large‐scale, collaborative projects and sharing results publicly.