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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 238 7 Implications for Management Policy and Institutional Arrangements As demonstrated in the previous chapters, the Bering Sea ecosystem, like all such systems around the globe, is very complex. It consists of physical, chemical, and biological components that interact in ways not completely understood.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 239 agent, as well as more traditional resources of the ecosystem, such as yearly fishery catches (NRC, 1994c)
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 240 One important attribute of an ecological system is that it changes over time, and therefore the same combination of inputs will not always produce the same basket of outputs. In addition, system responses are not always immediate.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 241 is a public good, knowledge is likely underproduced.3 Therefore, another relevant role for policy is to provide knowledge that can be used in making private and public decisions. The criteria for success of the management system must include ways to compare different flows to output baskets through time, which is a very difficult task.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 242 competition with private enterprise)
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 243 international framework for the conservation of marine resources (Convention for the Conservation of Anadromous Stocks in the North Pacific Ocean, 1992)
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 244 1. Improve coordination within the complete web of institutional structures that make management decisions concerning resource use in the Bering Sea ecosystem area.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 245 full specification of management objectives, this coordinating action should outline the preferences of the affected publics with respect to ecosystem use and, where possible, express their trade-off valuations between various uses in time and over time. Currently, parts of various U.S.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 246 impacts on essential ecological processes. One way to manage an area this size which will permit multiple use while preserving an ecological balance is to create zones of activity.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 247 concerned with international management issues. Where possible, the treaties should allow for direct relationships between the council and comparable entities in other countries.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 248 may also be worth considering when these entities have appropriate internal governance abilities. The coordinating agencies should also consider further implementations of ITOs, co-management, or other changes in the property rights structure that would change the incentives of private decision makers so they will more fully consider the effects of their actions.
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IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGEMENT POLICY AND INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS 249 basis of the reviews to ensure that they include ecosystem and socioeconomic perspectives. Similar considerations led a recent National Research Council committee on anadromous salmonids to recommend the establishment of an independent science advisory board to help bring an unbiased scientific component to decision making in the Pacific Northwest (NRC, 1996)
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