Management strategy evaluation: best practices

AE Punt, DS Butterworth, CL de Moor… - Fish and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) involves using simulation to compare the relative
effectiveness for achieving management objectives of different combinations of data …

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it: A perspective on current stock assessment good practices and the consequences of not following them

AE Punt - Fisheries Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The ideal stock assessment would be able to estimate all of the key parameters related to
population processes within a framework that assigns appropriate weight to the data, fits the …

Fisheries management under climate and environmental uncertainty: control rules and performance simulation

AE Punt, T A'mar, NA Bond… - ICES Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The ability of management strategies to achieve the fishery management goals are impacted
by environmental variation and, therefore, also by global climate change. Management …

Unveiling unselective fishing in China: a nationwide meta‐analysis of multispecies fisheries

M Sun, Y Li, Y Chen - Fish and Fisheries, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding and managing fishery selectivity to target species and desirable size are
instrumental to fisheries management. China, as the world's largest producer of marine …

Considerations for management strategy evaluation for small pelagic fishes

MC Siple, LE Koehn, KF Johnson, AE Punt… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is the state‐of‐the‐art approach for testing and
comparing management strategies in a way that accounts for multiple sources of uncertainty …

Recent advances in management strategy evaluation: introduction to the special issue “Under pressure: addressing fisheries challenges with Management Strategy …

DR Goethel, SM Lucey, AM Berger… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is an increasingly popular tool for developing,
testing, and implementing fisheries management regimes, oftentimes utilizing participatory …

Planning adaptation to climate change in fast-warming marine regions with seafood-dependent coastal communities

AJ Hobday, K Cochrane, N Downey-Breedt… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2016 - Springer
Many coastal communities rely on living marine resources for livelihoods and food security.
These resources are commonly under stress from overfishing, pollution, coastal …

Playing the detective: using multispecies approaches to estimate natural mortality rates

ÉE Plagányi, LK Blamey, JGD Rogers, VJD Tulloch - Fisheries Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Stock assessment models often assume natural mortality rates (M) are constant and attribute
the variability in a stock's overall mortality rate to variability in fishing mortality and …

Global forage fish recruitment dynamics: a comparison of methods, time-variation, and reverse causality

CS Szuwalski, GL Britten, R Licandeo, RO Amoroso… - Fisheries …, 2019 - Elsevier
The population dynamics of forage fish are often 'boom or bust', and variation in recruitment
may be a contributing factor to changes in abundance. Here we applied several methods for …

A review of the assessments of the major fisheries resources in South Africa

CL De Moor, SJ Johnston, A Brandão… - African Journal of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The waters off South Africa's coastline boast a rich mix of commercially fished species.
Quantitative assessments of these marine resources have developed from simple methods …