The Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem: Environmental Forcing and Sustainable Development of Marine Resources
Edited by J. McGlade, K. Koranteng, and P. Cury

• Map of World LMEs
• Map of West Africa with LMEs

• Rationale for book – McGlade, Koranteng, and Cury

• A modular approach to monitoring, assessing and managing LMEs – Anderson and Sherman
• Gulf of Guinea LME Project – Sherman and Ibe Abidjan meeting and major conclusions from Block A Phase 1 of LME Project
• INCO/DC Project – McGlade, Koranteng, and Cury
  Accra meeting and major conclusions from INCO/DC Project

1. Productivity

• Intro – Hardman-Mountford

Metocean Studies

• Investigating variability of physical environmental processes in the Gulf of Guinea – Hardman-Mountford and McGlade
• A multi-data approach for assessing the spatio-temporal variability of the Ivorio-Ghanaian coastal upwelling – Demarcq and Aman
• Physical changes in continental shelf waters of the Gulf of Guinea – Koranteng and McGlade
• Environmental variability at a coastal station near Abidjan: oceanic and continental influences – Arfi et al.

• Ocean colour, CZCS, SeaWiFS and AMT (Jim Aiken)
• Environmental and Resource Variability off Northwest Africa – Roy et al.
• The Continuous Plankton Recorder in the Gulf of Guinea – SAHFOS
• Spatial and temporal variations in benthic fauna and communities of the tropical Atlantic coast of Africa – Leloeuff and Zabi
• Inter-relationship between lagoon… - Entsuah-Mensah

2. Fish and Fisheries

• Intro – Koranteng

Fish Biology

• Species assemblages on the continental shelf… - Koranteng
• Analysis of the spatial and temporal variability of demersal communities of the continental shelf of Ghana – Joanny and Menard
• The NMFS bottom trawl survey program off the Northeast coast of the United States: an example for application in the Gulf of Guinea – Anderson
• Population structure and reproductive ecology of three commercially important species in and around the Gulf of Guinea – Lovell and McGlade
• From multi-species to biodiversity modelling – Shin and Cury

Fisheries

• Review of fishery resources and research in the Gulf of Guinea – Mensah and Quaatey
• Environmental forcing and fisheries – Cury and Roy
• Status of demersal fishery resources in Ghana’s coastal waters – Koranteng
• A database for the trawling fisheries of Côte d’Ivoire: data processing, data structure, first exploitations – Menard et al.
• Spatial modelling of trophic interactions and fisheries impacts in Sakumo Lagoon, Ghana – Pauly

• Intro – Stella
• Overview of socioeconomic linkages in coastal artisanal fisheries – Bortei-Doku Aryeetey
• Status of fish processing and marketing in Ghana – Akrofi
• Research extension linkages – Quaatey

5. Governance

• Intro – McGlade
• Regional cooperation in scientific research – Ansa-Emmim and Nauen
• Governance of the coastal zone, some reflections on SimCoast – McGlade

Postscript

• Future research and cooperation – Tilak
• Concilliance – Pauly