Journal article
Moving beyond the MSY concept to reflect multidimensional fisheries management objectives
National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark1
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research2
Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia3
Kiel University4
Marine Institute5
Section for Ecosystem based Marine Management, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark6
Imperial College London7
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea8
AZTI9
Wageningen University & Research10
Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute11
Ministry for Primary Industries12
Scottish Pelagic Fishermen’s Association Ltd.13
...and 3 moreMaximising the long term average catch of single stock fisheries as prescribed by the globally-legislated MSY objective is unlikely to ensure ecosystem, economic, social and governance sustainability unless an effort is made to explicitly include these considerations. We investigated how objectives to be maximised can be combined with sustainability constraints aiming specifically at one or more of these four sustainability pillars.
The study was conducted as a three-year interactive process involving 290 participating science, industry, NGO and management representatives from six different European regions. Economic considerations and inclusive governance were generally preferred as the key objectives to be maximised in complex fisheries, recognising that ecosystem, social and governance constraints are also key aspects of sustainability in all regions.
Relative preferences differed between regions and cases but were similar across a series of workshops, different levels of information provided and the form of elicitation methods used as long as major shifts in context or stakeholder composition did not occur. Maximising inclusiveness in governance, particularly the inclusiveness of affected stakeholders, was highly preferred by participants across the project.
This suggests that advice incorporating flexibility in the interpretation of objectives to leave room for meaningful inclusiveness in decision-making processes is likely to be a prerequisite for stakeholder buy-in to management decisions
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2017 |
Pages: | 33-41 |
ISSN: | 18729460 and 0308597x |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.marpol.2017.08.012 |
ORCIDs: | Rindorf, Anna |