Design of operational management strategies for achieving fishery ecosystem objectives

By K. Sainsbury, André E. Punt, Anthony D. M. Smith. 2000

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Ecosystem objectives in fisheries management usually flow from high-level national policies or strategies and international agreements. Consequently they are often broadly stated and hence are difficult to incorporate directly in management plans. Predicting the results of any management action is very uncertain because the dynamics of ecosystems are complex and poorly understood. Methods to design and evaluate operational management strategies have advanced considerably in the past decade. These management-strategy-evaluation (MSE) methods rely on simulation testing of the whole management process using performance measures derived from operational objectives. The MSE approach involves selecting (operational) management objectives, specifying performance measures, specifying alternative management strategies, and evaluating these using simulation. The MSE framework emphasizes the identification and modelling of uncertainties, and propagates these through to their effects on the performance measures. The framework is outlined and illustrated by three ecosystem-related applications: management of benthic habitats and broad fish community composition; by-catch of species of high conservation value; and foodchain interactions and dependencies. Challenges to be overcome before broader ecosystem-related objectives can be fully handled are discussed briefly.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Size, growth, temperature and the natural mortality of marine fish (2010, methodology): “Consequently, applying our models in management strategy evaluations (Sainsbury et al. 2000) may provide a way to include the effects of changing size composition on M when evaluating the consequences of alternative management strategies.”
Integrated Ecosystem Assessments: Developing the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem-Based Management of the Ocean (2009, methodology): “To accomplish this, a formal management strategy evaluation (MSE) can be employed [18].”
Mortality and predation in ecosystem models: is it important how these are expressed? (2003, methodology): “Ecosystem models are one tool that has been advocated for ecosystem management (Walters et al., 1997; Sainsbury et al., 2000 ).”
Ecosystem-based fisheries management: some practical suggestions (2007, background): “However, moving from high-level policy goals to operational goals remains a major challenge in situations where the goals are broad concepts such as “ecosystem integrity”, “ecosystem health”, and “biodiversity” (Sainsbury et al. 2000).”
Integrated ecological–economic fisheries models—Evaluation, review and challenges for implementation (2018, background): “For example, in the Australian fisheries management and advisory system, the participatory management and advice between many stakeholders has been the main driver of the implementation of the models (Smith et al., 1999, 2001, 2014; Sainsbury et al., 2000; Rayns 2007).”
Indicators to support an ecosystem approach to fisheries (2005, methodology): “The difference between the value of, or trend in, an indicator and a reference point, trajectory or direction is a measure of the performance of management (e.g. Sainsbury et al. 2000).”
Lessons learned from developing integrated ecosystem assessments to inform marine ecosystem-based management in the USA (2014, unknown): “The NOAA approach is a direct descendant of approaches advocated by Caddy (1999), Sainsbury et al. (2000), and Smith et al. (2007), but it is related to decades of EBM thinking around the globe (reviewed by Rosenberg et al., 2009; also see European Commission, 2008; Katsanevakis et al., 2011; ICES,…”
Towards sustainability in world fisheries (2002, background): “Perspectives We believe the concept of sustainability upon which most quantitative fisheries management is base”
Spatial management of marine resources can enhance the recovery of predators and avoid local depletion of forage fish (2012, background): “Multi-species and ecosystem models are considered as necessary tools to further develop ecosystem based fisheries management and evaluate the ecosystem consequences of proposed management actions (Sainsbury et al. 2000).”