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1 Introduction
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... , ecosystem-based management (NRC, governs marine fisheries management in the United States.
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... Fisheries restore stocks to levels that can produce maximum sustain According to FAO estimates, the United States had able yield with the aim of achieving these goals for depleted the fourth highest capture fishery landings behind China, stocks on an urgent basis and where possible not later than Peru, and Indonesia in 2011, the most recent year for which 2015." Prior to the 1970s, federal management of marine global data are available (FAO, 2012)
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... unreasonable and/or unnecessary. In light of these issues, that NOAA fund a study by the National Academies of the the MSFCMA and the related rebuilding plans continue to MSFCMA's rebuilding requirements.
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... included experts on fisheries management, fisheries science, Chapter 3 provides a detailed and technical review biological oceanography, ecosystem-based management, of current federally implemented rebuilding plans and the environmental policy, economics, and applied mathematics. outcomes of those plans in terms of trends in fishing presIn response to Congress's inquiries regarding the MSF- sure and stock size, as well as changes in stock status with CMA's rebuilding requirements and based on the statement respect to overfishing thresholds and biological reference of task, the committee developed this final report.
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... It provides a Chapter 7 takes a strategic look into the future and condiscussion of ecosystem-based management approaches and siders some of the issues that challenge current practitioners the challenges that impact rebuilding efforts. In the context and managers -- including shrinking resources, prescriptive of fisheries management and rebuilding plans, Chapter 5 constraints, mixed stocks, and data limitations.
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Key Terms

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  • fishery conservation
  • metric tons
  • fishery management
  • recreational fisheries

  • fish stocks
  • stock assessments
  • marine fisheries
  • management act
  • rebuilding requirements

  • capture fisheries
  • fisheries science
  • fish stock
  • maximum sustainable
  • fishing mortality

  • million metric
  • ecological interactions
  • national marine
  • sustainable yield
  • commercial landings

  • rebuilding reduction
  • aquaculture fisheries
  • international fisheries
  • rebuilding approaches
  • americanized fisheries

  • rebuilding ent
  • fisheries data
  • implemented rebuilding
  • coastal fisheries
  • fisheries value


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