The emergence of ecosystem-based management suggests that traditional fisheries management and protection of environmental quality are increasingly interrelated. But fishery managers have limited control over most sources of marine and estuarine pollution and at best can only adapt to...

Recent supply shocks in the Gulf of Mexico - including hurricanes, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the seasonal appearance of a large dead zone of low oxygen water (hypoxia) - have raised concerns about the economic viability of the U.S. shrimp fishery. The ability for U.S. shrimpers to...