Fisheries science: Stock assessment
Release date: December 2021
A diagram depicting the continuum of ecosystem-level management strategies.
- Status quo: single species management.
- Includes the management of commercial fisheries on a species-by-species basis.
- Management measures are outlined in a Fisheries Management Plan.
- Current initiative: Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management
- Includes the management of commercial fisheries on a species-by-species basis.
- Incorporates ecosystem variables such as water temperature, predatory-prey dynamics, and habitat.
- Management measures are outlined in a Fisheries Management Plan.
- Future work: Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management
- Expands the scope of the management of commercial fisheries to include simultaneous management of multiple species.
- Incorporates ecosystem variables such as water temperature, predatory-prey dynamics, and habitat.
- Management measures are outlined in an Ecosystem Management Plan.
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