TY - JOUR
T1 - Improving guidelines for implementing harvest strategies in capacity-limited fisheries
T2 - Lessons from Tonga's deepwater line fishery
AU - Hill, Nicholas J.
AU - Peatman, Thomas
AU - Wakefield, Corey B.
AU - Newman, Stephen J.
AU - Halafihi, Tuikolongahau
AU - Kinch, Jeff
AU - Edwards, Charles T.T.
AU - Nicol, Simon J.
AU - Williams, Ashley J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by PACE-Net Plus seed-funding from the Pacific-Europe Network for Science, Technology and Innovation project, the Australian Agency for International Development ( AusAID ), the French Pacific Fund , and the Zone Economique de Nouvelle-Caledonie ( ZoNeCo ) programme. We thank the Tongan Ministry of Fisheries and the Western Australian Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development for supplying fisheries data for the analyses. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and help in designing Fig. 2 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/12
Y1 - 2018/12
N2 - The majority of the world's fisheries lack formal management and assessment due to limitations in data, management capacity, or both. Capacity-limited fisheries generally contain some combination of limited infrastructure, personnel or expertise which hampers the ability of fisheries administrations to develop, implement and maintain desired management structures. Fisheries that fall within this category are at greater risk of performing poorly in terms of sustainability and economic benefits. In the process of applying a number of recently developed data-poor specific tools to Tonga's deepwater line fishery, it was apparent that reconciling the lack of resources with options for management required greater attention. Some of the challenges encountered are highlighted herein and processes to consider in order to overcome these are discussed. This resulted in a reprioritisation of the stepwise processes often used to develop harvest strategies by giving earlier prominence to management capacity and stakeholder engagement within a more iterative framework. This provides capacity-limited managers with a mechanism to develop a coherent harvest strategy across all components that is more viable long-term, irrespective of available management resources. Our case study extends the discussion on harvest strategies from data-rich to data-poor fisheries to include those fisheries that are both data-poor and capacity-limited. Application of formalised harvest strategies has been promoted as a tool to relieve the excessive fishing pressure apparent in many regions. The proposed refinements to the harvest strategy development process proposed here should improve capacity for fisheries management in circumstances where it is lacking.
AB - The majority of the world's fisheries lack formal management and assessment due to limitations in data, management capacity, or both. Capacity-limited fisheries generally contain some combination of limited infrastructure, personnel or expertise which hampers the ability of fisheries administrations to develop, implement and maintain desired management structures. Fisheries that fall within this category are at greater risk of performing poorly in terms of sustainability and economic benefits. In the process of applying a number of recently developed data-poor specific tools to Tonga's deepwater line fishery, it was apparent that reconciling the lack of resources with options for management required greater attention. Some of the challenges encountered are highlighted herein and processes to consider in order to overcome these are discussed. This resulted in a reprioritisation of the stepwise processes often used to develop harvest strategies by giving earlier prominence to management capacity and stakeholder engagement within a more iterative framework. This provides capacity-limited managers with a mechanism to develop a coherent harvest strategy across all components that is more viable long-term, irrespective of available management resources. Our case study extends the discussion on harvest strategies from data-rich to data-poor fisheries to include those fisheries that are both data-poor and capacity-limited. Application of formalised harvest strategies has been promoted as a tool to relieve the excessive fishing pressure apparent in many regions. The proposed refinements to the harvest strategy development process proposed here should improve capacity for fisheries management in circumstances where it is lacking.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.015
DO - 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.015
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054022525
SN - 0308-597X
VL - 98
SP - 85
EP - 91
JO - Marine Policy
JF - Marine Policy
ER -