Measuring management success: Experience with United States fisheries
Many articles have been published in recent years criticizing the management of living marine resources based solely on biological stock conservation criteria. In the United States and in many parts of the rest of the world, multiple management objectives and goals in addition to stock conservation must be met by fishery managers responsible for the marine resources under their control. An alternative management metric, conservation efficiency, is recommended based instead on a multi-disciplinary scientific framework that captures these different goals and the behavior of participants in the fishery. On the basis of the constraints facing managers, resources can be conserved and the quality of life of consumptive and nonconsumptive fishery participants improved.
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2009
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Authors: | Ward, John M. ; Kelly, Michael |
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Marine Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0308-597X. - Vol. 33.2009, 1, p. 164-171
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Stock collapse Fisheries management failure Cost-benefit analysis Multi-disciplinary scientific management framework Ecosystems approach to fisheries management |
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