Dynamic Changes in Marine Ecosystems Fishing, Food Webs, and Future Options (2006) / Chapter Skim
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6 Findings and Recommendations
6 Findings and Recommendations
Pages 109-118
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Ongoing research and assessment is required to understand the temporal and spatial extent of fishing impacts and how current and future management policies act to ameliorate or worsen the effects of fishing on marine food webs and species interactions.
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implementing ecosystem considerations in fisheries management actions, (2) promoting stewardship, and (3)
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These scenarios should elucidate the management tradeoffs that need to be made among user communities in a multi-species context and thereby inform the choice of multi-species harvest strategies. Fisheries management advice has tended to follow prescriptive policies defined in terms of generic biological reference points for individual populations as called for by the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act.
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New governance and management instruments that create stewardship incentives among user groups should be evaluated and considered for adoption in the United States for multi-species fisheries management. Fisheries management has largely utilized a top-down system that places managers and users in an adversarial relationship that sometimes generates rash "race-to-fish" incentives among fishermen.
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Improved data on food-web interactions, and changes in these interactions in both time and space, will help to create and update the models developed for a particular system. New and traditional regulatory schemes (catch and effort quotas set by different feedback control rules, marine protected areas, slot limits, gear type, etc.)
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Promoting Better Stewardship of the Marine Environment Fisheries management structures should ensure that a broad spectrum of social values is included in policy and management decisions. As previously recommended, ecosystem-based fisheries management approaches should be determined using model-based scenario analysis.
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If model-based scenario analysis is used for making fisheries management decisions, nonconsumptive and public-good values will need to receive proper consideration when making tradeoffs among ocean services. Creating a mechanism for input for these other users could be accomplished at several stages of the management process, and NMFS and the Fishery Management Councils should continue to examine new avenues for greater stakeholder participation.
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Determining historical levels of exploited populations, and their natural fluctuations, should also provide a baseline around which to establish future management actions, including the setting of recovery goals. Research is needed that expands relevant social and economic information and the integration of this knowledge in fisheries management actions.
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Research should also be conducted on how ecosystem management objectives can be incorporated into incentive-based governance mechanisms. Most existing incentive-based systems are primarily single-species focused, but many are also beginning to address broader ecosystem objectives.
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118 DYNAMIC CHANGES IN MARINE ECOSYSTEMS including those required by programs, such as the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research, to facilitate across-system comparisons. There is an additional need for a repository and data management system for ecosystem-level research that will allow access to data through multiple-user portals.
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