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| - Different oceans, seas, countries, coasts, and districts have not only different ecosystems, but different kinds of people working those fisheries, and the interactions between resource ecology and social ecology can be very numerous indeed. Some resources need to be managed on an ocean-basin scale - fisheries for highly migratory species, whilst others may be confined to a single reef or river.
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| - Different oceans, seas, countries, coasts, and districts have not only different ecosystems, but different kinds of people working those fisheries, and the interactions between resource ecology and social ecology can be very numerous indeed. Some resources need to be managed on an ocean-basin scale - fisheries for highly migratory species, whilst others may be confined to a single reef or river. Although many textbooks might lead you to think otherwise, fisheries biology is only one of the disciplines that need to be taken into account in fishery management, which also has to include social science, economics, and ecology, with a sprinkling of meteorology, database management, and psychology. Consequently, although some general principles can be described, the details of fishery management in different parts of the world are never the same. This section provides a geographically stratified view of fishery management, slicing through the field at a different angle from the function-based view available from the Fishery management mechanisms section. It is organised by Ocean, and ocean-level fisheries management systems, with progressive subdivisions under each ocean (although the articles on countries with coastlines bordering more than one ocean may be referred to from more than one ocean page and linked by categories). As well as moving down through the article tree from ocean, to country, to district etc, you can search for areas through the Wikia search bar on the menu at the left. In some cases, geographically-distinct fisheries may not fit neatly into the tree, and there is a miscellaneous section to accommodate them.
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