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Executive BLOCKINSummary This paper is one of a suite of three pieces of work contracted to inform the WCPFC Management Objectives Workshop, planned to be held prior to WCPFC9. This paper focuses on target reference points, and the other two papers focus on limit reference points and harvest control rules. The presentation of this work to SC8 will provide the feedback necessary to undertake fur...

Much like the Cornucopia myth of the 19th and early 20th centuries, MSY as a management tool simply won’t go away, regardless of evidence that managing for MSY has not been effective. Consequently, we investigate Ricker’s definition of MSY, focusing on words such as average catch, continuously taken, and existing environmental conditions. To do this, we develop a model for the squid fishery in ...

Citizen science offers a potentially cost-effective way for researchers to obtain large data sets over large spatial scales. However, it is not used widely to support biological data collection for fisheries stock assessments. Overfishing of demersal fishes along 1,000 km of the west Australian coast led to restrictive management to recover stocks. This diminished opportunities for scientists t...

The risks and benefits associated with a given fishery-management measure, such as choice of a total allowable catch (TAC), depend on how future measures are to be chosen. It is therefore more appropriate to assess the risks and benefits of procedures or algorithms for determining management actions rather than those of single actions. The properties of a management algorithm can be explored by...

Executive BLOCKINSummary This paper is one of a suite of three pieces of work contracted to inform the WCPFC Management Objectives Workshop, planned to be held prior to WCPFC9. This paper focuses on target reference points, and the other two papers focus on limit reference points and harvest control rules. The presentation of this work to SC8 will provide the feedback necessary to undertake fur...

Marine megafauna such as seabirds, marine mammals and sea turtles are subject to high mortality from incidental capture or bycatch in fisheries. Recent research suggests that fishing effort is increasing worldwide, highlighting the need to evaluate strategies intended to reduce marine megafauna bycatch. Here, we use three focal species (i.e. leatherback turtle Dermochelys coriacea, black-footed...

Climate regime shifts occur at irregular intervals and have profound and persistent impacts on ocean temperature and circulation patterns and on the dynamics of marine fish populations. Despite a growing scientific literature and some attention to the implications of such regime shifts for domestic fisheries, the issue has received little attention in the context of international fishery manage...