Direct and ancillary benefits of ecosystem-based fisheries management in forage fish fisheries.

ABSTRACT: Natural resource management is evolving toward holistic, ecosystem-based approaches to decision making. The ecosystem science underpinning these approaches needs to account for the complexity of multiple interacting components within and across coupled natural-human systems. In this research, we investigate the potential economic and ecological gains from adopting ecosystem-based approaches for the sardine and anchovy fisheries off of the coast of California, USA. Research has shown that while predators in this system are likely substituting one forage species for another, the assemblage of sardine and anchovy can be a significant driver of predator populations. Currently, the harvest control rules for sardine and anchovy fisheries align more with traditional single species framework. We a

SUBMITTER: Sanchirico JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9285690 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature