Seafood Processing Capacity in Commercial Fisheries Management: Discussion

1978 ◽  
Vol 60 (5) ◽  
pp. 1026-1027
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Bockstael
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
Processing Capacity ◽  
Seafood Processing

scholarly journals The quest for fisheries governance

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Ellefsen ◽  
Daniel W. Bromley
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Demographic Transition ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Fisheries Governance ◽  
Adaptive Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Fisheries Policy

We document the 40-year quest for coherent fisheries governance in the Faroe Islands. The centrality of commercial fisheries to the Faroese economy means that getting fisheries policy right is at the core of social and economic coherence in this small close-knit nation. But the lessons learned here have pertinence to all commercial fisheries. The primary lesson is that fisheries management is a conceit—a chimera. Fisheries policy is about stewardship and the continual balancing of contending visions regarding the purpose of a nation’s fisheries. Policy is inherently contentious over long periods because the polity is always undergoing demographic transition. Most importantly, policy is difficult because participants are never sure what they want until they learn about what is possible for them to have. Compounding this problem is the realization that the participants are themselves changed by a process that John Dewey identified as “trying and undergoing.” Humans adopt policies (trying) and then are themselves changed by the playing out of the implications of those policies (undergoing). All public policy is a continual saga of trying and undergoing—which leads to a new and adapted trying. This adaptive process is not management but governance.

scholarly journals Does recreational catch impact the TAC for commercial fisheries?

2014 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 450-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margit Eero ◽  
Harry V. Strehlow ◽  
Charles M. Adams ◽  
Morten Vinther
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
General Framework ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
Crucial Aspect ◽  
Total Allowable Catch ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Management Advice ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Baltic Cod

Abstract The western Baltic cod is one of the first fish stocks in Europe that, since 2013, includes recreational catches in stock assessment and fisheries management advice. In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity of the calculated commercial total allowable catch (TAC) to including recreational catches in stock assessment. Our results show that the most crucial aspect in terms of the impact on commercial TAC is the assumption on recreational catch dynamics relative to that of commercial fisheries used in forecast. The results were less sensitive to the information on the historical amount and age structure of recreational catch. Our study is intended to inform potential debates related to resource allocation between the commercial and recreational sectors and contribute to developing a general framework for incorporating recreational catches in fisheries management advice in ICES.

Bioeconomics of Commercial Fisheries Management

1979 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 699-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. L. Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Operational Concept ◽  
Economic Constraints

Canada has indicated that its management of fisheries is based on the "best-use" principle. This principle as an operational concept can be defined as the maximization of socioeconomic returns subject to both biological and economic constraints. This paper examined how this principle can become operational in a management sense by defining the similarities and differences in the approach to fisheries management by biologists and economists and by indicating how these roles can be combined for this management. Key words: fisheries, management, biology, economics, bioeconomics

Inland commercial fisheries management in France

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 303-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Boisneau ◽  
C. Mennesson-Boisneau
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Commercial Fisheries

scholarly journals Applying global best practices for estimating unreported catches in Norwegian fisheries under a discard ban

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Clegg ◽  
Steven J. Kennelly ◽  
Geir Blom ◽  
Kjell Nedreaas
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Regulatory Measures ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
Unreported Catches

AbstractIn addition to their role as a fisheries management tool, discard bans can be effective in improving knowledge of total catches via the requirement to land and report all catches. This shifts the focus to understanding the scale of unreported catches in fisheries, rather than only on discards. However, the presence of a discard ban can cause problems with estimation process, as it involves the observation of illegal activities, and the complex sources of unreported catches require a different approach to estimation. The Norwegian discard ban was introduced in 1987 as part of a wider suite of regulatory measures to improve exploitation patterns in commercial fisheries, but a framework for the regular estimation of unreported catches has yet to be established and operationalised. Here, we aim to identify global best practices for estimating unreported catches under a discard ban and assess their applicability to Norwegian fisheries. We approach this in three steps: (1) defining the scope of an estimation, (2) data collection, and (3) the actual procedure for estimation. We discuss how each step can affect the quality of an estimate with regards to accuracy, precision, practical limitations and whether the estimate is fit for purpose. Finally, we provide a list of recommendations for future studies and identify key knowledge gaps and limitations regarding their application to Norwegian fisheries.

scholarly journals RESOURCE-BASED COMMERCIAL FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN EASTERN INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Soepanto Soepanto
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
Eastern Indonesia

Management may be defined as a way or strategy to attain set objectives. It is a system by which people are organized to meet certain purposes. Aside from people as the central element of management, there are also things, alive and dead, which are used in order to arrive at the set objectives.

scholarly journals Selecting relative abundance proxies for BMSY and BMEY

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 469-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
André E. Punt ◽  
Anthony D. M. Smith ◽  
David C. Smith ◽  
Geoffrey N. Tuck ◽  
Neil L. Klaer
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Maximum Sustainable Yield ◽  
Commercial Fisheries ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Stock Size ◽  
Stock Assessments ◽  
Spawning Stock ◽  
Potential Loss ◽  
Over Time

Abstract The objectives for many commercial fisheries include maximizing either yield or profit. Clearly specified management targets are a key element of effective fisheries management. Biomass targets are often specified for major commercial fisheries that are managed using quantitative stock assessments where biomass is calculated and tracked over time. BMSY, the biomass corresponding to Maximum Sustainable Yield, is often used as a target when maximizing yield is important, while BMEY is the biomass target to maximize profit. There are difficulties in estimating both quantities accurately, and this paper explores default proxies for each target biomass, expressed as biomass levels relative to carrying capacity, which are more easily estimated. Integration across a range of uncertainties about stock dynamics and the costs of fishing suggests that a proxy for BMSY in the range of 35–40% of carrying capacity minimizes the potential loss in yield compared with that which would arise if BMSY was known exactly, while a proxy for BMEY of 50–60% of carrying capacity minimizes the corresponding potential loss in profit. These estimates can be refined given stock-specific information regarding productivity (particularly the parameter which defines the resilience of recruitment to changes in spawning stock size) and costs and prices. It is more difficult to find a biomass level that achieves a high expected profit than a biomass level that achieves a high expected catch, because the former is sensitive to uncertainties related to costs and prices, as well as parameters which determine productivity.

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