Generating Policy Information for Fisheries Management: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches

Sylvia, Gilbert; Cai, Deqin

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“…The MEY target is most relevant when the management objective is to rebuild a fishery, especially one that is characterized by latent effort. In terms of modelling, these two perspectives on rebuilding lead to two distinct ways to utilize the bioeconomic modelling framework: (1) minimize the loss in resource rents of rebuilding to the MSY; or (2) maximize resource rents or any other management goal(s) by rebuilding to the MEY (Sylvia 1997, Sylvia andEnriquez 1994;Sylvia and Cai 1995). In addition, both of these approaches can employ a weighted risk framework including subjective evaluations of risk.…”

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“…There are inherent tradeoffs that require policy makers to consider or prioritize all of these factors to satisfy all decision makers. 7 This is where multi-objective bioeconomic models can be of most use, that is, to show the explicit tradeoffs among competing objectives and provide information to the policy process (Sylvia and Enriquez, 1994;Sylvia and Cai, 1995).…”

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Practical Considerations in Using Bioeconomic Modelling for Rebuilding Fisheries

Larkin

Álvarez

Sylvia

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OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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Many of the world.s fish stocks are considered to be in need of rebuilding. In response, global agreements, including UNCLOS, have sought to adopt some (optimal) level of fish biomass, usually the level associated with the maximum sustainable yield (MSY). While establishing a sustainable level of harvest is goal with intuitive appeal, the pursuit of MSY ignores many relevant economic and social factors that are critical to the sustainability of a fishery.fisheries management, fisheries economics, Northern Prawns, North Atlantic Cod, Spiny Lobster, Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring, Bioeconomic Modelling, fisheries rebuilding, Striped bass

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Practical Considerations in Using Bioeconomic Modelling for Rebuilding Fisheries

Larkin

Álvarez

Sylvia

et al. 2011

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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“…Generation of the noninferior set was found to be computationally explosive for large numbers of objectives (k > 4), but they fared well in the other criteria, offering maximum information to the decision maker, with possible graphical depiction of objective interaction for k < 4. Sylvia and Cai (1995) noted that methods such as these can be most consistently applied to fisheries policy problems based on a pluralistic (open) process. They also briefly discuss the usefulness of generating techniques for aid in fisheries policy decision-making.…”

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“…The modeling framework was developed to assist in highlighting the data required to undertake such a detailed analysis. Sylvia and Cai (1995) discussed an example illustrating their model as a nonlinear program in order to solve a policy problem that included the level of rent and biological impacts on nonmarket species to determine harvest rate. They concluded that multi-objective techniques, especially MOP, have significant potential in the development of fisheries policy issues.…”

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A Review of Applications of Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques to Fisheries

Mardle¹,

Pascoe²

1999

Marine Resource Economics

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Management of public resources, such as fisheries, is a complex task. Society, in general, has a number of goals that it hopes to achieve from the use of public resources. These include conservation, economic, and social objectives. However, these objectives often conflict, due to the varying opinions of the many stakeholders. It would appear that the techniques available in the field of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) are well suited to the analysis and determination of fisheries management regimes. However, to date, relatively few publications exist using such MCDM methods compared to other applicational fields, such as forestry, agriculture, and finance. This paper reviews MCDM applied to fishery management by providing an overview of the research published to date. Conclusions are drawn regarding the success and applicability of these techniques to analyzing fisheries management problems.

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“…Conservation or preservation of biological diversity is often contrary to the aim of many fisheries organizations in maximizing production or economic efficiency (Agardy, 2000). In addition, increasing one objective such as regional benefits tends to decrease other goals such as national efficiency (Sylvia and Cai, 1995).…”

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Multi-criteria decision models for management of tropical coastal fisheries. A review

Andalecio

2010

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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The crisis in the world's fisheries is attributed to excessive fishing pressure, long-term mismanagement, increased population growth, development and improvement of fishing technologies, uncertainty in global fisheries catch data, economic incentives and subsidies, and increasing demand for fish meal. For the coastal fisheries of developing countries, the problem is aggravated by coastal habitat degradation, widespread poverty in coastal communities, inshore encroachment of commercial fishing vessels, use of illegal and destructive fishing methods, resource use conflicts, pollution from uplands, and weak institutional arrangements. In response to these problems and in the hope of reversing their negative effects, fisheries management strategies have emerged for tropical coastal fisheries during at least the past 30 years. In fisheries, it is crucial to determine the outcomes of management strategies, especially when public money has to be accounted for. However, efforts to assess their impacts or measure progress are usually directed towards a single disciplinary approach, which fails to consider the multidimensionality of tropical fisheries including concomitant multi-level and conflicting goals and objectives. This article explores the utility of a multi-criteria type of evaluation as a potential analytical approach in impact evaluation for tropical fisheries management. The general framework of a multi-criteria evaluation method is a two-dimensional matrix composed of different choice possibilities including the set of criteria and indicators that will serve as bases in assessing these choice possibilities. The literature presents various criteria and indicators in fisheries management evaluation, the kinds and number of which would depend on stated goals and objectives of fisheries and the availability of resources to acquire the information. The type of measurement, i.e., quantitative or qualitative, and the weighing of criteria and indicators are crucial in the evaluation process because they determine the multi-criteria aggregation approach to be used. Moreover, the participation of stakeholders and coastal resource users is crucial in complementing scientific information, in developing acceptable solutions, and in reducing conflicts and distrust in the evaluation and decision-making process. While many aggregation models in multi-criteria analysis in natural resource management exist, this article limits its review to only six models: the analytic hierarchy process, the weighted sum model, the ordination technique, concordance analysis, the regime method and Evamix; which are viewed to be applicable to the structure of decisionmaking in tropical fisheries management. This article also examines the performance of some of these models through a case study that determines the impacts of fisheries management strategies in San Miguel Bay, Philippines. The review reveals the following: (1) among the aggregation approaches, the analytic hierarchy process and ordination technique had the highest number of applic...

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Generating Policy Information for Fisheries Management: A Comparison of Alternative Approaches

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Practical Considerations in Using Bioeconomic Modelling for Rebuilding Fisheries

Practical Considerations in Using Bioeconomic Modelling for Rebuilding Fisheries

A Review of Applications of Multiple-Criteria Decision-Making Techniques to Fisheries

Multi-criteria decision models for management of tropical coastal fisheries. A review

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