An adaptive assessment and management toolkit for data-limited fisheries

McDonald, Gavin; Campbell, Stuart J.; Karr, Kendra; Clemence, Michaela; Granados-Dieseldorff, Pablo; Jakub, Raymond; Kartawijaya, Tasrif; Mueller, Janelle C.; Prihatinningsih, Puji; Siegel, Katherine; Syaifudin, Yusuf

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.11.015

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“…Surprisingly, we found no relationship between planktivore biomass with modeled estimates of primary productivity, suggesting that remotely sensed global models may not be detecting effects of local currents or other biophysical processes that we believe are driving plankton enrichment at the surveyed sites. Although planktivores are commonly removed from reef studies as their schooling behavior can bias biomass estimates, planktivores contribute to fisheries and food supply (McDonald et al., ; Russ, Aller‐Rojas, Rizzari, & Alcala, ; Yusrizal, Simbolon, & Solihin, ). Removing planktivores from survey analyses risks losing important information on pelagic energy transfer to reef systems and the ecological function on planktivores on reefs (Russ et al., ).…”

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Fishing restrictions and remoteness deliver conservation outcomes for Indonesia's coral reef fisheries

Campbell

Darling

Pardede

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CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Coral reef fisheries depend on reef fish biomass to support ecosystem functioning and sustainable fisheries. Here, we evaluated coral reefs across 4,000 km of the Indonesian archipelago to reveal a large gradient of biomass, from <100 kg/ha to >17,000 kg/ha. Trophic pyramids characterized by planktivore dominance emerged at high biomass,suggesting the importance of pelagic pathways for reef productivity. Total biomass and the biomass of most trophic groups were higher within gear restricted and no-take management, but the greatest biomass was found on unmanaged remote reefs. Within marine protected areas (MPAs), 41.6% and 43.6% of gear restricted and no-take zones, respectively, met a global biomass target of 500 kg/ha, compared with 71.8% of remote sites. To improve conservation outcomes for Indonesia's biodiverse and economically important coral reef fisheries, our results suggest to: (1) strengthen management within Indonesia's existing MPAs and (2) precautionarily manage remote reefs with high biomass. K E Y W O R D Sdata-poor fisheries, food webs, gear restrictions, marine protected areas, small-scale fisheries, South East Asia Conservation Letters. 2020;13:e12698.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/conl

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Fishing restrictions and remoteness deliver conservation outcomes for Indonesia's coral reef fisheries

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“…2017) and establish new fishery management controls, such as gear restrictions or size limits, as part of an adaptive management framework (McDonald et al. 2018). These toolkits were provided to intervention sites but not control sites and were used by local campaign managers who facilitated participatory processes involving fishers, government, and other local stakeholders.…”

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“…Therefore, adaptive management and capacity building are important aspects of the program so that the community is equipped for long‐term sustainability (McDonald et al. 2018).…”

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Catalyzing sustainable fisheries management through behavior change interventions

McDonald

Wilson

Veríssimo

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Conservation Biology

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Small-scale fisheries are an important livelihood and primary protein source for coastal communities in many of the poorest regions in the world, yet many are overfished and thus require effective and scalable management solutions. Positive ecological and socioeconomic responses to management typically lag behind immediate costs borne by fishers from fishing pressure reductions necessary for fisheries recovery. These shortterm costs challenge the long-term success of these interventions. However, social marketing may increase perceptions of management benefits before ecological and socioeconomic benefits are fully realized, driving new social norms and ultimately long-term sustainable behavior change. By conducting underwater visual surveys to quantify ecological conditions and by conducting household surveys with community members to quantify their perceptions of management support and socioeconomic conditions, we assessed the impact of a standardized small-scale fisheries management intervention that was implemented across 41 sites in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The intervention combines TURF reserves (community-based territorial use rights for fishing coupled with no-take marine reserves) with locally tailored social-marketing behavior change campaigns. Leveraging data across 22 indicators and 4 survey types, along with data from 3 control sites, we found that ecological and socioeconomic impacts varied and that communities supported the intervention and were already changing their fishing practices. These results suggest that communities were developing new social norms and fishing more sustainably before long-term ecological and socioeconomic benefits of fisheries management materialized.

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“…There has also been a rise in the attention being given to management of data‐limited fisheries, which account for a high percentage of global fish catches (FAO, 2015; McDonald et al., 2018). Building on earlier approaches such as data‐less management (Johannes, 1998) and rapid rural appraisal (Pomeroy & Rivera‐Guieb, 2006), Cochrane et al.…”

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“…(2009) promoted the concept of primary fisheries management for such fisheries, which is based on methods that are practical and uses indicators, data and information that are feasible for the fishery. There are now a number of packages available to support assessment and management in data‐limited fisheries, such as FishPath (Dowling et al., 2016) and the Adaptive Fisheries Assessment and Management Toolkit (AFAM, McDonald et al., 2018). Methods have also been developed to facilitate assessment and management of impacts on by‐catch species and other components of ecosystems for which there are often only limited data and information (e.g.…”

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Reconciling sustainability, economic efficiency and equity in marine fisheries: Has there been progress in the last 20 years?

Cochrane

2020

Fish and Fisheries

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This paper reviews the progress made over the last 20 years in achieving sustainable, economically efficient and socially just marine fisheries, referred to here as reconciled fisheries. It examines the substantial changes that have occurred in policies, practices and the challenges to fisheries. These include greater awareness of the impacts of climate change, implementation of ecosystem approaches, recognition of the needs and role of small‐scale fisheries, greater demands for fish and seafood and greater pressure from other sectors. Progress has been made in some countries and fisheries in improving sustainability and economic efficiency but much less in many others. Globally, substantial problems remain in the status of stocks, threats to biodiversity, incidence of undesirable ecological impacts, economic inefficiencies, and poverty, food insecurity and marginalization of fishers and other dependents on fisheries, particularly small‐scale fishers. Effectiveness of management and governance is linked to the development status of countries, so the challenges are most marked in developing countries but developed countries are also failing, particularly in achievement of socially equitable fisheries, while also transferring some of their problems to developing countries. The paper argues that reconciled fisheries will only be attainable in conjunction with meeting human development needs as a whole, which are reflected in the 17 United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). This requires that the global commitment to address the SDGs as being “integrated and indivisible” and in “a spirit of global solidarity” needs to be taken much more seriously than it currently appears to be.

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An adaptive assessment and management toolkit for data-limited fisheries

Cited by 21 publications

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Fishing restrictions and remoteness deliver conservation outcomes for Indonesia's coral reef fisheries

Fishing restrictions and remoteness deliver conservation outcomes for Indonesia's coral reef fisheries

Catalyzing sustainable fisheries management through behavior change interventions

Reconciling sustainability, economic efficiency and equity in marine fisheries: Has there been progress in the last 20 years?

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