Robert Stephenson

Integrating management of marine activities in Australia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 03-2023

DOI: 10.1016/J.OCECOAMAN.2022.106465

A practical framework for implementing and evaluating integrated management of marine activities

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 07-2019

DOI: 10.1016/J.OCECOAMAN.2019.04.008

Practical steps toward integrating economic, social and institutional elements in fisheries policy and management

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 02-05-2017

DOI: 10.1093/ICESJMS/FSX057

Abstract: While international agreements and legislation call for incorporation of four pillars of sustainability, the social (including cultural), economic and institutional aspects (the ‘human dimension’) have been relatively neglected to date. Three key impediments have been identified: a relative lack of explicit social, economic and institutional objectives a general lack of process (frameworks, governance) for routine integration of all four pillars of sustainability and a bias towards biological considerations. Practical integration requires a ‘systems’ approach with explicit consideration of strategic and operational aspects of management multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary evaluations practical objectives for the four pillars of sustainability appropriate participation and a governance system that is able to integrate these erse considerations in management. We challenge all involved in fisheries to immediately take five practical steps toward integrating ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects: (1) Adopt the perspective of the fishery as a ‘system’ with interacting natural, human and management elements (2) Be aware of both strategic and operational aspects of fisheries assessment and management (3) Articulate overarching objectives that incorporate all four pillars of sustainability (4) Encourage appropriate (and erse) disciplinary participation in all aspects of research, evaluation and management and (5) Encourage development of (or emulate) participatory governance.

Symposium on the Biology and Evolution of Mollusca

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 06-1980

DOI: 10.1080/00852988.1980.10673931

Integrating fishers’ knowledge research in science and management

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 16-03-2016

DOI: 10.1093/ICESJMS/FSW025

Abstract: Fishers' knowledge research (FKR) aims to enhance the use of experiential knowledge of fish harvesters in fisheries research, assessment, and management. Fishery participants are able to provide unique knowledge, and that knowledge forms an important part of “best available information” for fisheries science and management. Fishers' knowledge includes, but is much greater than, basic biological fishery information. It includes ecological, economic, social, and institutional knowledge, as well as experience and critical analysis of experiential knowledge. We suggest that FKR, which may in the past have been defined quite narrowly, be defined more broadly to include both fishery observations and fishers “experiential knowledge” provided across a spectrum of arrangements of fisher participation. FKR is part of the new and different information required in evolving “ecosystem-based” and “integrated” management approaches. FKR is a necessary element in the integration of ecological, economic, social, and institutional considerations of future management. Fishers' knowledge may be added to traditional assessment with appropriate analysis and explicit recognition of the intended use of the information, but fishers' knowledge is best implemented in a participatory process designed to receive and use it. Co-generation of knowledge in appropriately designed processes facilitates development and use of fishers' knowledge and facilitates the participation of fishers in assessment and management, and is suggested as best practice in improved fisheries governance.

Inclusion of ecological, economic, social, and institutional considerations when setting targets and limits for multispecies fisheries

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 28-01-2017

DOI: 10.1093/ICESJMS/FSW226

Abstract: Targets and limits for long-term management are used in fisheries advice to operationalize the way management reflects societal priorities on ecological, economic, social and institutional aspects. This study reflects on the available published literature as well as new research presented at the international ICES/Myfish symposium on targets and limits for long term fisheries management. We examine the inclusion of ecological, economic, social and institutional objectives in fisheries management, with the aim of progressing towards including all four objectives when setting management targets or limits, or both, for multispecies fisheries. The topics covered include ecological, economic, social and governance objectives in fisheries management, consistent approaches to management, uncertainty and variability, and fisheries governance. We end by identifying ten ways to more effectively include multiple objectives in setting targets and limits in ecosystem based fisheries management.

Tests of larval retention in a tidally energetic environment reveal the complexity of the spatial structure in herring populations

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 28-10-2015

DOI: 10.1111/FOG.12129

Proactive, reactive and inactive pathways for scientists in a changing world

Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Date: 02-2019

DOI: 10.1029/2018EF000990

Addressing Marine and Coastal Governance Conflicts at the Interface of Multiple Sectors and Jurisdictions

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Date: 11-09-2020

DOI: 10.3389/FMARS.2020.544440

The future of ocean governance

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 12-01-2021

DOI: 10.1007/S11160-020-09631-X

Quantitative Foresighting as a Means of Improving Anticipatory Scientific Capacity and Strategic Planning

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 11-2020

DOI: 10.1016/J.ONEEAR.2020.10.015

Food for thought: pretty good multispecies yield

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 19-04-2016

DOI: 10.1093/ICESJMS/FSW071

Abstract: MSY principles for marine fisheries management reflect a focus on obtaining continued high catches to provide food and livelihoods for humanity, while not compromising ecosystems. However, maintaining healthy stocks to provide the maximum sustainable yield on a single-species basis does not ensure that broader ecosystem, economic, and social objectives are addressed. We investigate how the principles of a “pretty good yield” range of fishing mortalities assumed to provide & % of the average yield for a single stock can be expanded to a pretty good multispecies yield (PGMY) space and further to pretty good multidimensional yield to accommodate situations where the yield from a stock affects the ecosystem, economic and social benefits, or sustainability. We demonstrate in a European ex le that PGMY is a practical concept. As PGMY provides a safe operating space for management that adheres to the principles of MSY, it allows the consideration of other aspects to be included in operational management advice in both data-rich and data-limited situations. PGMY furthermore provides a way to integrate advice across stocks, avoiding clearly infeasible management combinations, and thereby hopefully increasing confidence in scientific advice.

Perceptions regarding the need for broad sustainability assessments of Australian fisheries

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2018

DOI: 10.1016/J.FISHRES.2018.08.006

Fisheries And Oceans Canada

Location: Canada

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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP220100240

Start Date: 11-2022

End Date: 11-2025

Amount: $464,726.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559317

Start Date: 2005

End Date: 06-2008

Amount: $240,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council