How commercial fishing effort is managed

How commercial fishing effort is managed

Wild capture fisheries produce 90 million tonnes of food each year and have the potential to provide sustainable livelihoods for nearly 40 million people around the world (http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5555e.pdf). After decades of overfishing since industrialization, many global fish stocks have recovered...

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Published in:Fish and fisheries (Oxford, England) Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 268 - 285
Main Authors: Anderson, Christopher M., Krigbaum, Melissa J., Arostegui, Martin C., Feddern, Megan L., Koehn, John Zachary, Kuriyama, Peter T., Morrisett, Christina, Allen Akselrud, Caitlin I., Davis, Melanie J., Fiamengo, Courtney, Fuller, Ava, Lee, Qi, McElroy, Katherine N., Pons, Maite, Sanders, Jessica
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-03-2019
Subjects:
Capture fisheries
catch management
Commercial fishing
Ecological effects
Economic benefits
Economic conditions
Economics
effort management
Fish
Fish stocks
Fisheries
Fisheries management
fishery management
Fishing
Fishing effort
Fishing mortality
Incentives
Industrialization
Livelihoods
Mortality
Overfishing
Profitability
spatial management
Sustainable livelihood
triple bottom line outcomes
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Summary:Wild capture fisheries produce 90 million tonnes of food each year and have the potential to provide sustainable livelihoods for nearly 40 million people around the world (http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5555e.pdf). After decades of overfishing since industrialization, many global fish stocks have recovered, a change brought about through effective management. We provide a synthetic overview of three approaches that managers use to sustain stocks: regulating catch and fishing mortality, regulating effort and regulating spatial access. Within each of these approaches, we describe common restrictions, how they alter incentives to change fishing behaviour, and the resultant ecological, economic and community‐level outcomes. For each approach, we present prominent case‐studies that illustrate behaviour and the corresponding performance. These case‐studies show that sustaining target stocks requires a hard limit on fishing mortality under most conditions, but that additional measures are required to generate economic benefits. Different systems for allocation allow stakeholder communities to strike a locally acceptable balance between profitability and employment.
ISSN:1467-2960
1467-2979
DOI:10.1111/faf.12339