Developing a frame of reference for fisheries management and conservation interventions.

ABSTRACT: Effective implementation of management interventions is often limited by uncertainty, particularly in small-scale and developing-world fisheries. An effective intervention must have a measurable benefit, and evaluation of this benefit requires an understanding of the historical and socio-ecological context in which the intervention takes place. This context or 'frame of reference' should include the baseline status of the species of interest, as well as the most likely counterfactual (a projected scenario indicating what would have occurred in the absence of the intervention), given recent trends. Although counterfactuals are difficult to estimate and so are not widely specified in practice, an informative frame of reference can be developed even in data-poor circumstances. We demonstrate

SUBMITTER: Bladon AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6179125 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature