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...

This Record of Decision (ROD) documents the decision by the National Marine Fisheries Service (hereinafter referred to as NOAA Fisheries) to select the Preferred Alternative set forth in the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries Final Programmatic Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (PSEIS) as its policy choice for the management of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) and Gulf of Alaska (G...

Livelihood diversification is increasingly central to policy advice and investments in rural development fisheries management. For small-scale fishing communities low- middle-income countries, more diverse livelihoods are generally hypothesized reduce pressure vulnerabilities external shocks adverse trends while enabling people construct routes out of poverty. Yet, evidence impacts from livelih...

and customary fishers mainly take white sharks as bycatch in gillnets, and occasionally on longlines (Duffy unpubl. data). Sport fisheries for white sharks in New Zealand are largely undeveloped and fishers often tag and release those they do catch (Mossman 1993; Wilson 2002). A protective beach meshing programme run by Dunedin City Council (DCC) operates seasonally off Brighton, St. Clair and ...

Alaska fisheries are traditionally and economically important and, in 1992, fisheries subject to bycatch monitoring were valued at US$1.538 billion. Bycatch is the major seabird mortality factor and a serious conservation concern. Estimated average incidental mortality (1989-93) in selected fisheries was ca 11,200 birds annually. About 88% of the bycatch was in longline fisheries. Northern Fulm...