The fisheries governance tool: A practical and accessible approach to evaluating management systems.

ABSTRACT: The Fisheries Governance Tool (FGT) is a comprehensive, evidence-based diagnostic tool that fishery managers, environmental organizations, funders, investors, and other key stakeholders can use to track progress against sustainability goals, identify gaps and challenges that impede continued improvement, and set targets for improvement. The diagnostic tool was developed following a thorough review of existing evaluation and assessment schemes and builds upon many of the credible and widely accepted guidelines and assessment tools currently available. It is built on the premise that the most comprehensive and informative measures of country or regional performance requires evaluation of evidence across three components: 1) the laws and policies governing fisheries, 2) the capacity to implem

SUBMITTER: Swasey JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8248635 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature