—Despite widespread recognition of the importance of including stakeholders in management decisions for fisheries, an integrated process for broadening stakeholder involvement in the management of marine fisheries in the United States is lacking. Many marine recreational fishery stakeholders feel frustrated by a perceived lack of inclusion in the management process. Here, we describe a collabor...

Despite increasing importance of marine recreational fisheries, management goals and objectives have not changed from a focus on managing for commercially important objectives such as maximum or optimum sustainable yield. Additionally, recreational fishery stakeholders in several prominent U.S. fisheries have been frustrated by a perceived lack of inclusion of recreational views in fishery mana...

—Many fishery management decisions continue to be guided by science only through “best guess” interpretation of assessment information and deterministic models of fisheries and food webs; until very recently this was true of nearly all fishery management in the Great Lakes. However, fishery management decisions can be improved by formally considering uncertainty when evaluating management optio...

I wish to inform you of the release of the draft 'Western Rock Lobster Fishery Ecological Risk Assessment 2005 Report – July 2005' for a three-week public consultation period. Please find attached the report for your consideration. This report provides background on the western rock lobster fishery, its governance, the reporting requirements for the Ecologically Sustainable Development process ...

Establishing effective operational linkages among stakeholders in resource management depends on the institutional environment within which management occurs. As resource-based industries have developed and industrialized, resource management has tended to become specialized and centralized. Centralized management has been fraught with problems and has in many cases proven ineffective in the pr...

Project Overview Designing effective marine reserves for fisheries management requires an understanding of the movement rates and ranges of key fishery species and how these species use habitats within and outside reserve areas. In this project, the Perry Institute for Marine Science mapped marine habitats, and examined the habitat use and movement of key Caribbean fishery species, particularly...

Many fisheries in North America are in crisis, creating ever more complex problems for managers. Management decisions are contested in court, changed via legislation, or merely ignored. As complexities multiply, accuracy of management predictions decrease. Managers need tools to examine complex fishery systems which include not only biological and economic concerns, but political, social and be...

Mislabelling and species substitution are major concerns for fishery products marketed in the EU. The present survey aimed to investigate the correct enforcement of the Community and National rules on the labelling and marketing of fishery products retailed in Sardinia (Italy) between 2009 and 2014. A total of 3000 labels for fresh unpacked fishery products have been considered. A total of 900 ...

Growth of human activities often conflict with nature conservation requirements and integrated assessments are necessary to build reliable scenarios for management. In the Limfjord, Denmark’s largest estuary, nutrient loading reductions are necessary to fulfill EU regulations criteria, such as the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Cuts in nutrient loadings do not necessarily result in correspond...

Collective learning is helping communities make the most of small fisheries. Often, these fisheries are open to all and so, ideally, all stakeholders need to be involved in managing them. But stakeholders often don’t understand all the issues that need to be considered and how changes in the way they do things—new technologies or management strategies—will benefit them. The learning-by-doing ap...