OR RE CT ED P Abstract The Pacific shrimp fishery is the most economically important and ecologically impactful fishery in Mexico. Strong export markets have had a tremendous influence on the technological development and structure of this fishery. This article describes the historical development, current status, ecological impacts and management of the open ocean trawling component of the shr...

For any spatially explicit management, determining the appropriate spatial scale of management decisions is critical to success at achieving a given management goal. Specifically, managers must decide how much to subdivide a given managed region: from implementing a uniform approach across the region to considering a unique approach in each of one hundred patches and everything in between. Spat...

A Raster-based Spatiotemporal Hierarchical Data Model (RSHDM) was designed for the nature of marine phenomena or marine fishery management. Based on the data model a spatiotemporal data warehouse for marine fishery management has been developed. The practice shows that the RSHDM can provide aggregation data for the fishery management on each level.

—Despite widespread recognition of the importance of including stakeholders in management decisions for fisheries, an integrated process for broadening stakeholder involvement in the management of marine fisheries in the United States is lacking. Many marine recreational fishery stakeholders feel frustrated by a perceived lack of inclusion in the management process. Here, we describe a collabor...

—Many fishery management decisions continue to be guided by science only through “best guess” interpretation of assessment information and deterministic models of fisheries and food webs; until very recently this was true of nearly all fishery management in the Great Lakes. However, fishery management decisions can be improved by formally considering uncertainty when evaluating management optio...

To date, none of the fisheries in the U.S. Pacific Islands Region is managed under a catch share program. In light of the NOAA policy to encourage the use of catch shares as a fishery management tool, the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (WPFMC) listed six commercial fisheries, including the Hawaii pelagic longline fishery, the largest in the region, as potential candidates for catch ...

A coastal fishery brings high productivity and economic profit while supporting cultural norms. However, it also causes environmental degradation and political conflicts, which sometimes collapse a fishery. With the current global shift from capture fisheries to aquaculture, appropriate management is required for social and environmental sustainability. To identify essential factors in coastal ...

Individual transferable quotas (ITQs) have been identified as the preferred management tool for Commonwealth fisheries (Commonwealth of Australia 1989). This paper compares the effectiveness of ITQs as a management control with the current system of input controls in the northern prawn fishery using an integrated biological and economic model of the fishery, embedded in a stochastic optimisatio...

tables or diagrams may be reproduced for such purposes provided acknowledgment of the source is included. Major extracts or the entire document may not be reproduced by any process without the written permission of the Executive Director, ABARE. Foreword The southern shark fishery has shown signs of being overexploited and overcapitalised for a number of years. Despite the introduction of an in...