There is a growing focus around the world on marine spatial planning, including spatial fisheries management. Some spatial management approaches are quite blunt, as when marine protected areas (MPAs) are established to restrict fishing in specific locations. Other management tools, such as zoning or spatial user rights, will affect the distribution of fishing effort in a more nuanced manner. Co...

Management of the diverse fisheries of the world has had mixed success. While managing single species in data-rich environments has been largely effective, perhaps the greatest challenge facing fishery managers is how to deal with mixed stocks of fish with a range of life histories that reside in the same location. Because many fishing gears are nonselective, and the costs of making gear select...

One of the challenges in fisheries management as it moves from a single-species to an ecosystem approach, is to meet the ecological and management needs of fish, seabirds, marine mammals, and humans, all of which operate over widely different spatial scales. This relatively new approach to fisheries management involves developing and fine-tuning predictive models that incorporate complex food w...

Marine fisheries are highly complex and stochastic. A simulation model, therefore, is required. Simulation-based optimization utilizes the simulation model in obtaining the objective function values of a particular fishing schedule. The decision support system for fishery management will assist the government agencies and the fishing industry to use sound data and management science techniques ...

The quality and applicability of existing data collection systems for inland fisheries are increasingly being questioned. Often, these systems are based on methods that were developed for marine fisheries, although data needs for inland fisheries are very different. Furthermore, most data is not collected based on any pre-identified needs for information, but because it was requested “from abov...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have largely proven to be effective tools for conserving marine ecosystem, while socio-economic benefits generated by MPAs to fisheries are still under debate. Many MPAs embed a no-take zone, aiming to preserve natural populations and ecosystems, within a buffer zone where potentially sustainable activities are allowed. Small-scale fisheries (SSF) within buffer zon...

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is bound by its Article II, 3 to follow an ecosystem approach to management. This approach has been extended to the application of a precautionary approach in the late 1980s. In our review, we deal primarily with the science-related aspects of CCAMLR and its development towards an ecosystem approach to the managem...

Understanding the pressures of fisheries on the ecosystem is crucial for effective management. Fishery removals, or catch, are composed of both landings and discards. However, the use of discards data in studies investigating the effect of the fishing pressures is sparse. Here, we explore the individual contribution of both these catch components to the overall pressure of fisheries on the ecos...

IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) and University of Tasmania; U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 3209 Frederic Street, Pascagoula MS 39567, USA; North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, 3441 Arendell Street, Morehead City, NC 28557, USA; WIDECAST and Duke University Marine Laboratory, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, North ...

1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA, United States, 2 Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 3 Department of Geology and Geophysics, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai...