[PDF] Data And Management Strategies For Recreational Fisheries With Annual Catch Limits eBook

Author : National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
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ISBN : 9780309671576

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Marine recreational fishing is a popular activity enjoyed by more than 9 million Americans annually and is a driver of the American ocean-or blue-economy. To ensure that fish populations are not overexploited, the NOAA Fisheries' Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) monitors recreational catch through a variety of in-person, telephone, mail-in, and other surveys. NOAA Fisheries' management of recreational catch also must take into account annual catch limits (ACLs) established to prevent overfishing for all managed species in federal waters. While MRIP has worked to improve recreational catch surveys over the past decade, the surveys were never designed to meet the demands of in-season management of ACLs. In some cases, estimates of harvest have triggered accountability measures such as early season closures and reductions in future recreational ACLs, which have been a source of contention with the recreational fishing community. This report presents approaches for optimizing MRIP data and complementary data for in-season management and considers alternatives for managing recreational fisheries with ACLs to better serve both social and economic management objectives.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2006-07-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309180252

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Recreational fishing in the United States is an important social and economic component of many marine fisheries, with an estimated 14 million anglers making almost 82 million fishing trips in 2004. Although each individual angler typically harvests a small number of fish, collectively these sport fisheries can take a significant fraction of the yearly catch-in some cases more than commercial fisheries. For example, in 1999, recreational fishing accounted for 94% of the total catch of spotted sea trout, 76% of striped bass and sheephead, and 60 percent of king mackerel. It is important that systems used to monitor fishing catch are adequate for timely management of recreational fisheries. However, the large number of anglers and access points makes monitoring recreational fishing much more difficult than monitoring commercial fishing. This report reviews the types of survey methods used to estimate catch in recreational fisheries, including state/federal cooperative programs. The report finds that both telephone survey and onsite access components of the current monitoring systems have serious flaws in design or implementation. There are also several areas of miscommunication and mismatched criteria among designers of surveys, data collectors, and recreational fisheries. The report recommends that a comprehensive, universal sampling frame with national coverage should be established, and that improvements should be made in statistical analysis of the data collected and in the ways the data are communicated. A permanent and independent research group should be established and funded to evaluate the statistical design and adequacy of recreational fishery surveys and to guide necessary modifications or new initiatives.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9251072140

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The importance of recreational fisheries is increasing in many transitional economies. These guidelines focus on recreational fisheries and describe strategies to promote environmentally sustainable and socially responsible management of such fisheries. To this end, the document details policy, managerial and behavioural recommendations for sustainable recreational fisheries.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 1998-02-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309174406

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Ocean harvests have plateaued worldwide and many important commercial stocks have been depleted. This has caused great concern among scientists, fishery managers, the fishing community, and the public. This book evaluates the major models used for estimating the size and structure of marine fish populations (stock assessments) and changes in populations over time. It demonstrates how problems that may occur in fisheries dataâ€"for example underreporting or changes in the likelihood that fish can be caught with a given type of gearâ€"can seriously degrade the quality of stock assessments. The volume makes recommendations for means to improve stock assessments and their use in fishery management.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2000-12-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309070856

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Congress has promoted fisheries science for over a century and its involvement in fisheries management took a great leap forward with passage of the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976. In the past decade, Congress has requested advice from the National Research Council (NRC) on both national issues (e.g., individual fishing quotas and community development quotas) and the assessments related to specific fisheries (Northeast groundfish). This report was produced, in part, in response to another congressional request, this time related to the assessments of the summer flounder stocks along the East Coast of the United States. Following the initial request, the NRC, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and congressional staff agreed to broaden the study into a more comprehensive review of marine fisheries data collection, management, and use.

Author : Grati, F., Carlson, A., Carpentieri, P. & Cerri, J.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251346305

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Marine recreational fisheries are an integral part of Mediterranean and Black Sea coastal life and are commonly practiced throughout the region. Recreational fisheries also represent an important driver of coastal tourism, which constitutes one of the region’s most important maritime sectors in terms of gross value added and employment. However, despite their ubiquity and potential socio-economic contribution, recreational fisheries are a data-poor sector and can vary widely from one country to another, thus impairing proper consideration of the recreational fisheries sector in policy-making and undermining efforts towards sustainable fisheries management at the regional level. The main goal of this handbook is therefore to provide a clear methodological framework to allow Mediterranean and Black Sea countries to implement suitably harmonized sampling and survey monitoring schemes for recreational fisheries. This handbook establishes a minimum set of necessary information for monitoring recreational fisheries, while, at the same time, allowing for flexibility to accommodate national specificities and data collection needs. It also provide guidance on the data analysis process as well as advice to successfully engage stakeholders in the data collection process.

Author : Brian Cheuvront
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Coryphaena hippurus
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"Recreational catch estimates for dolphin and wahoo in the Comprehensive Annual Catch Limit (ACL) Amendment and its integrated Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) (SAFMC 2011a), which included Amendment 3 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Dolphin and Wahoo Fishery of the Atlantic (Dolphin Wahoo FMP) were computed using data generated by the Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (MRFSS). Following an independent review by the National Research Council and a mandate from Congress, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) replaced MRFSS with the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) to provide more accurate recreational catch estimates. The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (South Atlantic Council) stated in the Comprehensive ACL Amendment that they would take action as needed, via plan amendment or framework amendment, to revise the appropriate values, in 2012 and beyond. MRIP methods have been used to recalculate previous MRFSS estimates dating back to 2004, and will be the basis for all new estimates moving forward. Therefore, Amendment 5 to the Dolphin Wahoo FMP (Dolphin Wahoo Amendment 5) considers these revisions. The revisions are necessary because if the acceptable biological catch (ABC), ACL, and recreational annual catch target (ACT) values are not updated with the new MRIP estimates, ACLs would be based on MRFSS data while the landings being used to track the ACLs would be estimated using MRIP data. This would result in inconsistencies in the how ACLs are calculated versus how they are monitored. In addition to MRIP data, ACLs would be updated to include revisions to commercial and for-hire landings data. The changes in data impacts the allocations to the commercial and recreational sectors for dolphin and wahoo; however, because the underlying formula used to establish the allocations remains unchanged from what was implemented previously in the Comprehensive ACL Amendment, the magnitude of change is very small. Using MRIP values to estimate recreational landings, as well as updates to headboat and commercial landings represent the best available data and are therefore, in accordance with National Standard 2 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act)"--Summary.

Author : Government Accountability Office
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2017-07-29
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ISBN : 9781974030453

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Recreational fisheries management, the National Marine Fisheries Service should develop a comprehensive strategy to guide its data collection efforts : report to congressional requesters.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 1999-03-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309055261

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Fluctuations and declines in marine fish populations have caused growing concern among marine scientists, fisheries managers, commercial and recreational fishers, and the public. Sustaining Marine Fisheries explores the nature of marine ecosystems and the complex interacting factors that shape their productivity. The book documents the condition of marine fisheries today, highlighting species and geographic areas that are under particular stress. Challenges to achieving sustainability are discussed, and shortcomings of existing fisheries management and regulation are examined. The volume calls for fisheries management to adopt a broader ecosystem perspective that encompasses all relevant environmental and human influences. Sustaining Marine Fisheries offers new approaches to building workable fisheries management institutions, improving scientific data, and developing management tools. The book recommends ways to change current practices that encourage overexploitation of fish resources. It will be of special interest to marine policymakers and ecologists, fisheries regulators and managers, fisheries scientists and marine ecologists, fishers, and concerned individuals.