Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- About the editors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Globalization and fisheries: a necessarily interdisciplinary inquiry
- Part I Impacts of globalization on fisheries and aquatic habitats
- 1 Globalization: implications for fish, fisheries, and their management
- 2 Fisheries globalization: fair trade or piracy?
- 3 Effects of globalization on freshwater systems and strategies for conservation
- 4 Globalization effects on water quality: monitoring the impact on and control of waterborne disease
- 5 Health challenges to aquatic animals in the globalization era
- 6 Globalization, biological invasions, and ecosystem changes in North America's Great Lakes
- Part II Case studies of globalization and fisheries resources
- Part III Governance and multilevel management systems
- Part IV Ethical, economic, and policy implications
- Part V Conclusions and recommendations
- Index
- Plate section
- References
5 - Health challenges to aquatic animals in the globalization era
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- About the editors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Globalization and fisheries: a necessarily interdisciplinary inquiry
- Part I Impacts of globalization on fisheries and aquatic habitats
- 1 Globalization: implications for fish, fisheries, and their management
- 2 Fisheries globalization: fair trade or piracy?
- 3 Effects of globalization on freshwater systems and strategies for conservation
- 4 Globalization effects on water quality: monitoring the impact on and control of waterborne disease
- 5 Health challenges to aquatic animals in the globalization era
- 6 Globalization, biological invasions, and ecosystem changes in North America's Great Lakes
- Part II Case studies of globalization and fisheries resources
- Part III Governance and multilevel management systems
- Part IV Ethical, economic, and policy implications
- Part V Conclusions and recommendations
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
INTRODUCTION
As the globalization era progresses, societies and world economies have been transformed dramatically, mainly through increased international trade and cultural exchange. Advances in technology, major biotechnological innovations, and greater international movements of people and commodities have created a system that metaphorically unites the world into one global village; goods and services produced in one part of the world can easily be transported and made available in all parts of the globe. As much as the globalization era has created new challenges, it has also inherited many unresolved challenges of the past. How will a world, divided into over 200 sovereign countries and territories, cope with these unthinkably fast globalization processes, while preserving the environmental integrity of our planet? In particular, achieving a balance among globalization processes, the growing economy, preservation of biodiversity, protection against biosecurity threats, and safeguarding the health of the fragile ecosystem seems to be a distant dream that would be difficult to realize.
Concomitant with the emergence of the globalization era, mass mortalities have been observed over a wide range of farmed and wild aquatic animals, including fish, mollusks, crustaceans, harbor seals, manatees, turtles, frogs, coral organisms, and sea urchins (Heide-Jorgensen and Harkonen 1992; Lafferty and Kuris 1993; Moyer et al. 1993; Littler and Littler 1995; Altstatt et al. 1996; Rahimian and Thulin 1996; Jones et al. 1997; Bossart et al. 1998; Ford et al. 1999; Harvell et al. 1999; Rosenberg and Loya 2004).
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- Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources , pp. 120 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007