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• 31. [Article] Rethinking Fisheries Management: Why Fisheries Management Fails

  Fisheries management as we know it today is in a perpetual state of crisis because it is fatally flawed. Fisheries management will increasingly fail to prevent species decline, and even exacerbate those ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Rethinking Fisheries Management: Why Fisheries Management Fails Author: Spain, Glen Year: 2001 Fisheries management as we know it today is in a perpetual state of crisis because it is fatally flawed. Fisheries management will increasingly fail to prevent species decline, and even exacerbate those declines, unless it adopts new institutional priorities and methodologies based not on the prevalent “Industrial Model,” which is driven primarily by economic utility, but instead based on the “Biological Model,” which is primarily driven by the whole range of species’ biological needs, including limits placed by interactions with other species and by the ecosystem’s carrying capacity at each stage of a species’s lifecycle. In other words, fisheries managers – including fisheries economists – must stop just managing fishermen and learn to manage fish ecosystems by thinking more like biologists than economists. To do this, concepts such as “efficient use” and “optimization” of the resource must now be legally redefined primarily in biological and ecosystem conservation terms, and fisheries management agencies must adopt the tools of conservation biology, including investing far more heavily in the basic biological monitoring that makes such management possible. Failure to make these changes will simply lead to more stock crashes, unnecessary and probably fatal stresses on fishing-dependent communities, and ultimately extinction of whole species. Title: Rethinking Fisheries Management: Why Fisheries Management Fails Author: Spain, Glen Year: 2001 Fisheries management as we know it today is in a perpetual state of crisis because it is fatally flawed. Fisheries management will increasingly fail to prevent species decline, and even exacerbate those declines, unless it adopts new institutional priorities and methodologies based not on the prevalent “Industrial Model,” which is driven primarily by economic utility, but instead based on the “Biological Model,” which is primarily driven by the whole range of species’ biological needs, including limits placed by interactions with other species and by the ecosystem’s carrying capacity at each stage of a species’s lifecycle. In other words, fisheries managers – including fisheries economists – must stop just managing fishermen and learn to manage fish ecosystems by thinking more like biologists than economists. To do this, concepts such as “efficient use” and “optimization” of the resource must now be legally redefined primarily in biological and ecosystem conservation terms, and fisheries management agencies must adopt the tools of conservation biology, including investing far more heavily in the basic biological monitoring that makes such management possible. Failure to make these changes will simply lead to more stock crashes, unnecessary and probably fatal stresses on fishing-dependent communities, and ultimately extinction of whole species. Close

• 32. [Article] Assessing the Accuracy of High Spatial Resolution Effort Data: Comparing VMS and Logbook Data in the California Groundfish Trawl Fishery

  Fisheries management is increasingly being conducted at finer scales of spatial resolution. The spatial distribution of fish stocks is recognized as being an important aspect of stock abundance and spatial ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Assessing the Accuracy of High Spatial Resolution Effort Data: Comparing VMS and Logbook Data in the California Groundfish Trawl Fishery Author: Thomas-Smyth, Alice, Speir, Cameron, Mamula, Aaron Fisheries management is increasingly being conducted at finer scales of spatial resolution. The spatial distribution of fish stocks is recognized as being an important aspect of stock abundance and spatial management tools, such as marine reserves, have become common. Information on the spatial distribution of fishing effort is critical to conducting this type of spatially-oriented management for at least two reasons. First, harvest information from individual vessels can generate data used in higher spatial resolution stock assessment. Second, understanding the location choice behavior of fishermen is important in understanding the effects of policy on both fish stocks and the fishermen themselves. In this paper, we compare for consistency two sources of two high-resolution data sets on fishing location: self-reported logbook data and vessel monitoring system data. Title: Assessing the Accuracy of High Spatial Resolution Effort Data: Comparing VMS and Logbook Data in the California Groundfish Trawl Fishery Author: Thomas-Smyth, Alice, Speir, Cameron, Mamula, Aaron Fisheries management is increasingly being conducted at finer scales of spatial resolution. The spatial distribution of fish stocks is recognized as being an important aspect of stock abundance and spatial management tools, such as marine reserves, have become common. Information on the spatial distribution of fishing effort is critical to conducting this type of spatially-oriented management for at least two reasons. First, harvest information from individual vessels can generate data used in higher spatial resolution stock assessment. Second, understanding the location choice behavior of fishermen is important in understanding the effects of policy on both fish stocks and the fishermen themselves. In this paper, we compare for consistency two sources of two high-resolution data sets on fishing location: self-reported logbook data and vessel monitoring system data. Close

• 33. [Article] Self-Imposed Catch Shares by French Producers Organizations

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Self-Imposed Catch Shares by French Producers Organizations Author: Merzereaud, Mathieu, Daurès, Fabienne, Metz, Sébastien, Le Floch, Pascal, Macher, Claire, Guyader, Olivier presentation Title: Self-Imposed Catch Shares by French Producers Organizations Author: Merzereaud, Mathieu, Daurès, Fabienne, Metz, Sébastien, Le Floch, Pascal, Macher, Claire, Guyader, Olivier presentation Close

• 34. [Article] Bycatch Risk Pools for the US West Coast Groundfish Fishery

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Bycatch Risk Pools for the US West Coast Groundfish Fishery Author: Jannot, Jason, Holland, Daniel Abstract only Title: Bycatch Risk Pools for the US West Coast Groundfish Fishery Author: Jannot, Jason, Holland, Daniel Abstract only Close

• 35. [Article] Inspection, Compliance & Violation: A Case of Fisheries

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Inspection, Compliance & Violation: A Case of Fisheries Author: Otumawu-Apreku, Kofi Abstract Only Title: Inspection, Compliance & Violation: A Case of Fisheries Author: Otumawu-Apreku, Kofi Abstract Only Close

• 36. [Article] How Rights based Fisheries Management in Namibia can provide greater benefits to inland local communities

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: How Rights based Fisheries Management in Namibia can provide greater benefits to inland local communities Author: Hitula, Alushe, Ndjaula, HIlkka Abstract Only Title: How Rights based Fisheries Management in Namibia can provide greater benefits to inland local communities Author: Hitula, Alushe, Ndjaula, HIlkka Abstract Only Close

• 37. [Article] An Evaluation of The Commercial Fishing License Policy in The Philippines

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: An Evaluation of The Commercial Fishing License Policy in The Philippines Author: Trinidad, Annabelle Cruz Research Paper Title: An Evaluation of The Commercial Fishing License Policy in The Philippines Author: Trinidad, Annabelle Cruz Research Paper Close

• 38. [Article] Imperfect Compliance, Credibility, and Heterogeneous Governance in a Metapopulation

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Imperfect Compliance, Credibility, and Heterogeneous Governance in a Metapopulation Author: Herrera, Guillermo Research Paper Title: Imperfect Compliance, Credibility, and Heterogeneous Governance in a Metapopulation Author: Herrera, Guillermo Research Paper Close

• 39. [Article] Fisheries Management in Dominican Republic: The Role of International Cooperation For Responsible Fisheries

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Fisheries Management in Dominican Republic: The Role of International Cooperation For Responsible Fisheries Author: Mateo, Jeannette Research Paper Title: Fisheries Management in Dominican Republic: The Role of International Cooperation For Responsible Fisheries Author: Mateo, Jeannette Research Paper Close

• 40. [Article] Co-management of the shrimp fishery in Madagascar

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Co-management of the shrimp fishery in Madagascar Author: Rajaosafara, Sandy, Rojat, Dominique, Chaboud, Christian Research Paper Title: Co-management of the shrimp fishery in Madagascar Author: Rajaosafara, Sandy, Rojat, Dominique, Chaboud, Christian Research Paper Close