The effect of management choices on the sustainability and economic performance of a mixed fishery: A simulation study

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 697-712

  Kraak, S B M ^a   Buisman, F C ^a   Dickey Collas, M ^a   Poos, J J ^a   Pastoors, M A ^a   Smit, J G P ^a   Van Oostenbrugge, J A E ^a   Daan, N ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Economic performance; Effort regulation; Management strategy evaluation; Mixed fishery; North Sea plaice; North Sea sole

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MIXED FARMING; MODELING; MORTALITY; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

PLEURONECTES;

EID: 44649197690     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn045     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Butterworth, D. S., and Punt, A. E. 1999. Experiences in the evaluation and implementation of management procedures. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 56: 985-998.
2. Daan, N. 1997. TAC management in North Sea flatfish fisheries. Journal of Sea Research, 37: 321-341.
3. Darby, C. D., and Flatman, S. 1994. Virtual Population Analysis: Version 3.1 User Guide. MAFF Directorate of Fisheries Research, IT Report 1. 85 pp.
4. de Wilde, W. 1999. Measurement of economic impacts of fishery management decisions, The Dutch case (associated with the Klepper & Lasch work). EAFE Conference 1999, Dublin.
5. Dickey-Collas, M., Pastoors, M. A., and van Keeken, O. A. 2007. Precisely wrong or vaguely right: simulations of noisy discard data and trends in fishing effort being included in the stock assessment of North Sea plaice. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1641-1649.
6. EC. 2007. Council Regulation (EC) No 676/2007 of 11 June 2007 establishing a multiannual plan for fisheries exploiting stocks of plaice and sole in the North Sea. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2007/ l_157/l_15720070619en00010006.pdf.
7. Frost, H. 1997. Transition from quota to effort regulation. South Jutland University Press, DIFER Report Series 23/97. Report with Financial Assistance from the EU Commission DG XIV (DG14.A-94/03).
8. Harwood, J., and Stokes, K. 2003. Coping with uncertainty in ecological advice: lessons from fisheries. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 18: 617-622.
9. ICES. 2001. Report of the ICES Advisory Committee on Fishery Management. ICES Cooperative Research Report, 242.
10. ICES. 2003. Report of the Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak (WGNSSK) Copenhagen, Denmark, 11-20 June 2002. ICES Document CM 2003/ACFM: 02.
11. ICES. 2004. Report of the Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak (WGNSSK) Boulogne sur Mer, France, 9-18 September 2003. ICES Document CM 2004/ACFM: 07.
12. ICES. 2005. Report of the Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak (WGNSSK) Bergen, Norway, 7-16 September 2004. ICES Document CM 2005/ACFM: 07.
13. ICES. 2007. Report of the Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Stocks in the North Sea and Skagerrak (WGNSSK), ICES Headquarters, 5-14 September 2006. ACFM: 35. http://www.ices.dk/reports/ACFM/2006/WGNSSK/directory. asp.
14. Kell, L. T., and Bromley, P. J. 2004. Implications for current management advice for North Sea plaice (Pleuronectes platessa L.). 2. Increased biological realism in recruitment, growth, density-dependent sexual maturation and the impact of sexual dimorphism and fishery discards. Journal of Sea Research, 51: 301-312.
15. Kell, L. T., Kirkwood, G., Pilling, G., Abaunza, P., Aps, R., van Beek, F. A., Biseau, A. et al. 2002. Analysis of possibilities of limiting the annual fluctuations in TACs (MATES, Final Report FISH/2001/02/02). CEFAS, Lowestoft, UK.
16. Kell, L. T., Mosqueira, I., Grosjean, P., Fromentin, J-M., Garcia, D., Hillary, R., Jardim, E. et al. 2007. FLR: an open-source framework for the evaluation and development of management strategies. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 640-646.
17. Kell, L. T., Pilling, G. M., Kirkwood, G., Pastoors, M. A., Mesnil, B., Korsbrekke, K., Abaunza, P. et al. 2005. An evaluation of the implicit management procedure used for some ICES roundfish stocks. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 62: 750-759.
18. Kraak, S. B. M., Buisman, F. C., Dickey-Collas, M., Poos, J. J., Pastoors, M. A., Smit, J. P. G., Daan, N. et al. 2004. How can we manage mixed fisheries? A simulation study of the effect of management choices on the sustainability and economic performance of a mixed fishery. ICES Document CM 2004/FF: 11.
19. Machiels, M. A. M., Kraak, S. B. M., and Beek, F. A. van 2007. Evaluation of a management plan as proposed by the European Commission in 2006 for fisheries exploiting stocks of plaice and sole in the North Sea. Wageningen IMARES Report, C011/07.IJmuiden, the Netherlands. http://old-stecf.jrc.it/ meetings/sgeca/0605/imares.pdf.
20. Nielsen, M. 1999. EU Seafood Markets - Integration and Demand, Working Paper No13/1999, SJFI, Copenhagen.
21. Pascoe, S., Andersen, J., and de Wilde, W. 2001. The impact of management regulation on the technical efficiency of vessels in the Dutch beam trawl fishery. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 28: 187-206.
22. Pastoors, M. A., Poos, J. J., Kraak, S. B. M., and Machiels, M. A. M. 2007. Validating management simulation models and implications for communicating results to stakeholders. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 818-824.
23. Piet, G. J., and Rice, J. C. 2004. Performance of precautionary reference points in providing management advice on North Sea fish Stocks. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 61: 1305-1312.
24. Punt, A. E., Smith, A. D. M., and Cui, G. 2002. Evaluation of management tools for Australia's South East fishery. 1. Modelling the South East fishery taking into account technical interactions. Marine and Freshwater Research, 53: 615-629.
25. Rijnsdorp, A. D., Daan, N., and Dekker, W. 2006. Partial fishing mortality per fishing trip: a useful indicator of effective fishing effort in mixed demersal fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 63: 556-566.
26. Rosenberg, A. A., and Restrepo, V. R. 1994. Uncertainty and risk evaluation in stock assessment advice for U.S. marine fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 51: 2715-2720.
27. Sainsbury, K. J., Punt, A. E., and Smith, A. D. M. 2000. Design of operational management strategies for achieving fishery ecosystem objectives. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 57: 731-741.
28. Salz, P., and Frost, H. 2000. Model for economic interpretation of the ACFM advice (EIAA). In Proceedings of the XIIth Annual Conference of the European Association of Fisheries Economists (EAFE). Ed. by E. Lindebo, and N. Vestergaard. University of Southern Denmark.
29. Shepherd, J. G. 1999. Extended survivors analysis: an improved method for the analysis of catch at age data and abundance indices. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 56: 584-591.
30. STECF. 2006. Commission staff working paper, impact assessment: plaice and sole long-term management. STECF Sub-group SGECA-SGRST-06-05, Brussels, 26-29 September 2006. http://stecf.jrc.ec.europa.eu/20.
31. Sutinen, J. G. 1999. What works well and why: evidence from fishery-management experiences in OECD countries. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 56: 1051-1058.
32. Ulrich, C., Pascoe, S., Sparre, P. J., de Wilde, J-W., and Marchal, P. 2002. Influence of trends in fishing power on bioeconomics in the North Sea flatfish fishery regulated by catches or by effort quotas. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 59: 829-843.