TY - JOUR
T1 - Scientific tools to support the practical implementation of ecosystem-based fisheries management
AU - Smith, A. D.M.
AU - Fulton, E. J.
AU - Hobday, A. J.
AU - Smith, D. C.
AU - Shoulder, P.
N1 - Funding Information:
Many people contributed to the development of the tools outlined here. For ERAEF, the major contributors included Ilona Stobutzki, Helen Webb, Ross Daley, Sally Wayte, Mike Fuller, Alan Williams, Joanne Dowdney, Cathy Bulman, and Miriana Sporcic. For the MSE project, significant contributors included Jeremy Prince, Ian Knuckey, Pascale Baelde, Margot Sachse, Terry Walker, Peter Franklin, and Gerry Geen. Jeremy Prince, Ian Knuckey, Rudy Kloser, Geoff Tuck, André Punt, Sally Wayte, and Neil Klaer contributed to development of the HSF for the SESSF. Funding for all three projects was provided by AFMA and CSIRO, and both the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation and the Australian National Oceans Office contributed funding to the alternative management strategies project.
PY - 2007/5
Y1 - 2007/5
N2 - Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) has emerged during the past 5 y as an alternative approach to single-species fishery management. To date, policy development has generally outstripped application and implementation. The EBFM approach has been broadly adopted at a policy level within Australia through a variety of instruments including fisheries legislation, environmental legislation, and a national policy on integrated oceans management. The speed of policy adoption has necessitated equally rapid development of scientific and management tools to support practical implementation. We discuss some of the scientific tools that have been developed to meet this need. These tools include extension of the management strategy evaluation (MSE) approach to evaluate broader ecosystem-based fishery management strategies (using the Atlantis modelling framework), development of new approaches to ecological risk assessment (ERA) for evaluating the ecological impacts of fishing, and development of a harvest strategy framework (HSF) and policy that forms the basis for a broader EBFM strategy. The practical application of these tools (MSE, ERA, and HSF) is illustrated for the southern and eastern fisheries of Australia.
AB - Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) has emerged during the past 5 y as an alternative approach to single-species fishery management. To date, policy development has generally outstripped application and implementation. The EBFM approach has been broadly adopted at a policy level within Australia through a variety of instruments including fisheries legislation, environmental legislation, and a national policy on integrated oceans management. The speed of policy adoption has necessitated equally rapid development of scientific and management tools to support practical implementation. We discuss some of the scientific tools that have been developed to meet this need. These tools include extension of the management strategy evaluation (MSE) approach to evaluate broader ecosystem-based fishery management strategies (using the Atlantis modelling framework), development of new approaches to ecological risk assessment (ERA) for evaluating the ecological impacts of fishing, and development of a harvest strategy framework (HSF) and policy that forms the basis for a broader EBFM strategy. The practical application of these tools (MSE, ERA, and HSF) is illustrated for the southern and eastern fisheries of Australia.
KW - Atlantis
KW - Ecological risk assessment
KW - Ecosystem-based fishery management
KW - Harvest strategy framework
KW - Management strategy evaluation
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U2 - 10.1093/icesjms/fsm041
DO - 10.1093/icesjms/fsm041
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:35948945713
VL - 64
SP - 633
EP - 639
JO - ICES Journal of Marine Science
JF - ICES Journal of Marine Science
SN - 1054-3139
IS - 4
ER -