Author
Rindorf, AnnaDichmont, Catherine Mary
Levin, Phillip S.
Mace, Pamela
Pascoe, Sean
Prellezo, Raul
Punt, André E.
Reid, David G.
Stephenson, Robert
Ulrich, Clara
Vinther, Morten
Clausen, Lotte Worsøe
Keyword
social objectives.mixed-fisheries
MEY
ecosystem objectives
economic objectives
operationalising MSY
Date
2017Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Metadata
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MSY principles for marine fisheries management reflect a focus on obtaining continued high catches to provide food and livelihoods for humanity, while not compromising ecosystems. However, maintaining healthy stocks to provide the maximum sustainable yield on a single-species basis does not ensure that broader ecosystem, economic, and social objectives are addressed. We investigate how the principles of a “pretty good yield” range of fishing mortalities assumed to provide .95% of the average yield for a single stock can be expanded to a pretty good multispecies yield (PGMY) space and further to pretty good multidimensional yield to accommodate situations where the yield from a stock affects the ecosystem, economic and social benefits, or sustainability. We demonstrate in a European example that PGMY is a practical concept. As PGMY provides a safe operating space for management that adheres to the principles ofMSY, it allows the consideration of other aspects to be included in operational management advice in both data-rich and data-limited situations. PGMY furthermore provides a way to integrate advice across stocks, avoiding clearly infeasible management combinations, and thereby hopefully increasing confidence in scientific advice.Description
Peer reviewed paper. This is an open access article accepted for publication in ICES Journal of Marine Science following peer review. The version of record Rindorf, A., Dichmont, C. M., Levin, P. S., Mace, P., Pascoe, S., Prellezo, R., …Reid, D. G. … Clausen, L. W. (2017). Food for thought: pretty good multispecies yield. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal Du Conseil, fsw071. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw071 is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/74/2/475/2907929 https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw071Citation
Rindorf, A., Dichmont, C. M., Levin, P. S., Mace, P., Pascoe, S., Prellezo, R., …Reid, D. G. … Clausen, L. W. (2017). Food for thought: pretty good multispecies yield. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal Du Conseil, fsw071. https://doi.org/10.1093/ icesjms/fsw071ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/icesjms/fsw071