Sustainability of exploited ecologically interdependent species |
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Authors: | Bapan Ghosh Tapan Kumar Kar Tarzan Legović |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Mathematics, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, 711103 Howrah, India;2. R. Bošković Institute, POB 180, 10 002 Zagreb, Croatia |
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Abstract: | This paper examines the application of maximum sustainable yield (MSY) policy in ecosystem and indicates when the ecosystem based fisheries management approach is required for conservation purpose. To describe the possible impacts of applying global MSY policy in an ecosystem, we have considered both specialist and generalist prey–predator models with different fishing efforts. It is found that harvesting both prey and predator species in specialist prey–predator systems, to achieve global maximum sustainable total yield (MSTY) under independent efforts, will cause the extinction of the predator species. In contrast, the global MSTY may exist in a generalist prey–predator system. If global MSTY does not exist, then it is due to the extinction of predator species. Hence, the prey species never goes to extinction under independent efforts and this scenario is quite different from the one found under combined harvesting effort. |
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Keywords: | Extinction Food chain Harvesting Maximum sustainable yield Maximum sustainable total yield Top predator |
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