Ecosystem-based fisheries management: Perception on definitions, implementations, and aspirations.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) was developed to move beyond single species management by incorporating ecosystem considerations for the sustainable utilization of marine resources. Due to the wide range of fishery characteristics, including different goals of fisheries management across regions and species, theoretical best practices for EBFM vary greatly. Here we highlight the lack of consensus in the interpretation of EBFM amongst professionals in marine science and its implementation. Fisheries policy-makers and managers, stock assessment scientists, conservationists, and ecologists had very different opinions on the degree to which certain management strategies would be considered EBFM. We then assess the variability of the implementation of EBFM, where we created a checkl

SUBMITTER: Trochta JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5790216 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature