The need for management of the marine ecosystem using a broad perspective has been recommended under a variety of names …. This paper uses the term Ecosystem Management, which is seen as a convergence between the ecological idea of an … organisational hierarchy and the idea of strategic planning with a planning hierarchy—with the ecosystem being the strategic planning …

Ecosystem Management requires models that can link the ecosystem level to the operation level. This link can be created … by an ecosystem production model. Because the function of the individual fish in the marine ecosystem, seen in trophic … events into ecosystem level properties, and thereby uses the law of conservation of mass as a framework. This paper provides …