Effects of management tactics on meeting conservation objectives for Western North American groundfish fisheries.

ABSTRACT: There is considerable variability in the status of fish populations around the world and a poor understanding of how specific management characteristics affect populations. Overfishing is a major problem in many fisheries, but in some regions the recent tendency has been to exploit stocks at levels below their maximum sustainable yield. In Western North American groundfish fisheries, the status of individual stocks and management systems among regions are highly variable. In this paper, we show the current status of groundfish stocks from Alaska, British Columbia, and the U.S. West Coast, and quantify the influence on stock status of six management tactics often hypothesized to affect groundfish. These tactics are: the use of harvest control rules with estimated biological reference points

SUBMITTER: Melnychuk MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3584066 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature