Over the last decades, views on fisheries management have oscillated between alarm and trust in management progress. The predominant policy for remedying the world fishing crisis aims at maximum sustainable yield (MSY) by adjusting gear selectivity and fishing effort. Here we report a case study on how striving for higher yields from the Eastern Baltic cod stock by increasing selectivity has be...

This paper presents a decision support system that is oriented toward fisheries policy and management decisions. The important current issues involve the development of an optimal harvesting plan for the fishing industry. A simulation optimization has been built to assist authorities in scheduling for a fleet of hundreds of vessels in terms of time and location of fishing, as well as amount and...

A statewide economic survey of Hawaii’s fishing vessel operators was conducted in 1995–96. Survey topics fell into five groups: vessel characteristics, owners’ motivations, fishing operations, cost and revenue information, and operator demographics. Although this project was designed for and emphasizes the costs and earnings of commercial pelagic fishermen, information was also collected from r...