Fowler, Ashley M. and Dowling, Natalie A. and Lyle, Jeremy M. and Alós, Josep and Anderson, Leif E. and Cooke, Steven J. and Danylchuk, Andy J. and Ferter, Keno and Folpp, Heath and Hutt, Clifford and Hyder, Kieran and Lew, Daniel K. and Lowry, Michael B. and Lynch, Tim P. and Meadows, Nicholas and Mugerza, Estanis and Nedreaas, Kjell and Neto, Domingos Garrone and Doyle, Faith A. Ochwada and Potts, Warren and Records, David and Steinback, Scott and Strehlow, Harry V. and Tracey, Sean R. and Travis, Michael D. and Tsuboi, Jun-ichi and Volstad, Jon Helge and Chick, Rowan C. (2023) Toward sustainable harvest strategies for marine fisheries that include recreational fishing. Fish and Fisheries, 24 (6). pp. 1003-1019.
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Recreational fishing (RF) is a large yet undervalued component of fisheries globally. While progress has been made in monitoring, assessing, and managing the sector in isolation, integration of RF into the management of multi-sector fisheries has been limited, particularly relative to the commercial sector. This marginalises recreational fishers and reduces the likelihood of achieving the sector's objectives and, more broadly, achieving fisheries sustainability. We examined the nature and extent of RF inclusion in harvest strategies (HSs) for marine fisheries across 15 regions in 11 nations to define the gap in inclusion that has developed between sectors. We focused on high-income nations with a high level of RF governance and used a questionnaire to elicit expert knowledge on HSs due to the paucity of published documents. In total, 339 HSs were considered. We found that RF inclusion in HSs was more similar to the small-scale sector (i.e., artisanal, cultural, or subsistence) than the commercial sector, with explicit operational objectives, data collection, performance indicators, reference points, and management controls lacking in many regions. Where specified, RF objectives focused on sustainability, economic value and catch allocation rather than directly relating to the recreational fishing experience. Conflicts with other sectors included competition with the commercial sector for limited resources, highlighting the importance of equitable resource allocation policies alongside HSs. We propose that RF be explicitly incorporated into HSs to ensure fisheries are ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable, and we recommend that fisheries organisations urgently review HSs for marine fisheries with a recreational component to close the harvest strategy gap among sectors.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Marine Fisheries, Harvest Strategies, Recreational Fisheries, Fisheries, Fisheries Management, Fisheries Organisations, Conflicts |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Nov 2024 05:39 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Nov 2024 05:39 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20737 |
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