Although many countries have formally committed to Ecosystem-Based Fisheries
Management (EBFM), actual progress toward these goals has been slow. This paper …

The implementation of ecosystem management requires ecosystem modelling within the
context of a natural resource management process. Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is the most …

Modeling has become the most commonly used method in fisheries science, with numerous
types of models and approaches available today. The large variety of models and the …

Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a simulation approach that serves as a “light on
the hill” to test options for marine management, monitoring, and assessment against …

The rate of change in marine ecosystems and the speed with which pressure on those
systems is escalating are much faster than rates of institutional change or management …

Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is an increasingly popular tool for developing,
testing, and implementing fisheries management regimes, oftentimes utilizing participatory …

Multispecies, multigear fisheries occur in most ecosystems in the world, but are typical in
tropical ecosystems and especially in emerging economies. However, much of fishery …

Stock assessment models often assume natural mortality rates (M) are constant and attribute
the variability in a stock's overall mortality rate to variability in fishing mortality and …

Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a simulation-based approach to examine the
efficacy of management options in achieving fishery-, ecosystem-, and socioeconomic …

The discipline and practice of fisheries science and management have had an useful,
successful, and interesting history. The discipline has developed over the past century and a …