Implementation of Coral Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (CHAPCs): South Atlantic Fishery Management Council process

2014 ◽  
pp. 39-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Martin
Keyword(s):  
Fishery Management ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Management Council

Incorporating Uncertainty into Fishery Models

2002 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fishery Management ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
National Standard ◽  
The South ◽  
Greater Amberjack ◽  
Management Council

<em>Abstract.—</em> This paper focuses on greater amberjack management in the South Atlantic region, with an examination of the deficiencies in data collection and resulting impacts on the amberjack stock assessment and management decisions. This is a case study of uncertainty leading to more conservative, risk-averse management. Amberjack management in the South Atlantic is illustrative of the debate of whether you do what you can with what you have versus not doing anything until you have good information. Ultimately one has to ask what are the consequences to resource management. While National Standard #2 says you must base your decisions on the best scientific information, scientific information entails more than just the stock assessment results. It entails other biological information as well as social and economic information. The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council went as far as we could without opening ourselves up to a legal challenge. We attempted to balance concern for the resource, Florida’s desire to be more conservative, skepticism about the data, and the fishermen’s desire to fish.

Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management for the New England Fishery Management Council

2012 ◽  
pp. 87-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. O'Boyle ◽  
S. Cadrin ◽  
D. Georgianna ◽  
J. Kritzer ◽  
M. Sissenwine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Management Council

scholarly journals Human dimensions of climate change and fisheries in a coupled system: the Atlantic surfclam case

2011 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 1354-1367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie J. McCay ◽  
Sylvia Brandt ◽  
Carolyn F. Creed
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Coupled System ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Decision Processes ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Economic Modelling ◽  
Cognitive Frames ◽  
Marine System ◽  
Management Council

Abstract McCay, B. J., Brandt, S., and Creed, C. F. 2011. Human dimensions of climate change and fisheries in a coupled system: the Atlantic surfclam case. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1354–1367. Research on changes in a coupled marine system of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, focusing on Atlantic surfclams and the associated fishery and management system, is reviewed for how the human dimensions of this coupled socio-ecological system are addressed by the researchers. Our foci are on economic modelling of spatial choices, using dynamic optimization with adjustments that reflect better the natural and socio-economic realities of the fishery and on ethnographic observations of decision processes, particularly those of the regional fishery management council, with particular emphasis on cognitive frames and management communities. These are designed to be integrated with and to complement biophysical modelling of the complex coupled socio-ecological system.

scholarly journals Effects of excluding bottom-disturbing mobile fishing gear on abundance and biomass of groundfishes in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, USA

2010 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briana K. Brown ◽  
Elizabeth Soule ◽  
Les Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Gulf Of Maine ◽  
Fishing Gear ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
Benthic Habitats ◽  
Fall Season ◽  
The One ◽  
Management Council ◽  
Sampling Season

Abstract The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (southern Gulf of Maine, northwest Atlantic) is partially overlapped by the Western Gulf of Maine Closure Area (WGMCA). This is a region in which mobile, bottom-disturbing fishing gear has been banned by the New England Fishery Management Council to facilitate the rebuilding of depleted groundfish populations. We assessed the effects and effectiveness of the WGMCA on groundfish assemblages using habitat-stratified (gravel, sand, mixed benthic habitats) sampling by means of a commercial trawler, inside and outside of the WGMCA. Sampling occurred over three month-long sampling periods in 2004-2005, two during the spring seasons and one during the fall season. A total of 18 species were analyzed for protection effects. After controlling for substratum, location and sampling season, eight groundfish species exhibited higher mean proportional abundance inside than outside the WGMCA while two were proportionally more abundant on average outside of the closure. Four species had higher mean proportional biomasses on average inside the closure and three outside. We conclude that the WGMCA may be achieving its goal of rebuilding abundance and biomass for some commercially targeted groundfishes but not all. This study, six to seven years post-closure establishment, reveals fine-scale spatial and taxonomic complexity which will require a very different monitoring protocol than the one currently in place if adaptive management is to be successful in the region.

scholarly journals Fine-scale fisheries co-management through cooperative acoustic surveys

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
OCTO
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
North Pacific ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Aleutian Islands ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
The North ◽  
Acoustic Surveys ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Management Council ◽  
The North Pacific

The authors describe a method of collaborative fisheries management offering both fine temporal- and spatial-scale resolution which was trialed in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands walleye pollock fishery. In this fishery, scientists, locals, and industry are highly-engaged and already involved in a co-management process set forth by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. This methodology involves fishers using off-the-shelf commercial echosounders to conduct acoustic surveys in small areas to enhance existing fisheries data (such as estimates of total catch from fisheries observers) in an effort to allow more harvest without affecting nearby threatened species.

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