Developing an Ocean Ethic: Science, Utility, Aesthetics, Self‐Interest, and Different Ways of Knowing

PETER J. AUSTER,∗ ROD FUJITA,† STEPHEN R. KELLERT,‡ JOHN AVISE,§ CLAUDIO CAMPAGNA,∗∗ BENJAMIN CUKER,†† PAUL DAYTON,‡‡ BURR HENEMAN,§§ RICHARD KENCHINGTON,∗∗∗ GREG STONE,††† GIUSEPPE NOTARBARTOLO DI SCIARA,‡‡‡ AND POLITA GLYNN§§§ ∗National Undersea Research Center and Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT 06340, U.S.A., email peter.auster@uconn.edu †7011 Homewood Drive, Oakland, CA 94611, U.S.A. ‡Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 205 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A. §University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, U.S.A. ∗∗Centro Nacional Patagonico, National Research Council of Argentina, Puerto Madryn Chubut 9120, Argentina and Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx Zoo, Bronx, NY 10460, U.S.A. ††Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668, U.S.A. ‡‡University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093-0227, U.S.A. §§Commonweal, 35 Horseshoe Hill, Bolinas, CA 94924, U.S.A. ∗∗∗Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia †††New England Aquarium, Conservation Division, Central Wharf, Boston, MA 02110, U.S.A. ‡‡‡Tethys Research Institute, Viale G.B. Gadio 2, 20121 Milano, Italy §§§Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Collier Building, Miami, FL 33149, U.S.A.