When can “principles” support advice on fisheries and environmental management?

Fisheries Management: Basic Principles

Can fisheries management be quantified?

Policy efforts to reduce fisheries impact have often created micro-management. Detailed regulations are restricting the fishing industry, and are also acknowledged to limit the progress towards sustainable management. Industry representatives, political bodies and scientists have therefore argued for more simplicity and transparency. Here, fisheries management is quantified in terms of trends i...

2005: Decision Support System for Fisheries Management

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...

Management support systems principles and concepts

This chapter reviews the concept of management support systems (MSS) their purpose, solution techniques and development methodologies. MSS is a category of software solutions that are intensely user oriented and includes systems known as Decision Support Systems (DSS), Executive Information Systems (EIS), Executive Support Systems (ESS), and Expert Systems (ES). These various systems are catego...

Fisheries Co-management: Organization, Process, and Decision Support

Fisheries management requires making complex decisions that account for multiple objectives involving many participants in an inherently variable environment. The form and function of management remains a major strategic issue as we approach the next century. Management approaches for the future need to focus on integrating biological, economic, social and political considerations of fisheries ...