Management strategy evaluation (MSE) involves using simulation to compare the relative
effectiveness for achieving management objectives of different combinations of data …

Evidence of the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on marine ecosystems is
accumulating, but must be evaluated in the context of the “normal” climate cycles and …

Abstract Kell, LT, Mosqueira, I., Grosjean, P., Fromentin, JM., Garcia, D., Hillary, R., Jardim,
E., Mardle, S., Pastoors, MA, Poos, JJ, Scott, F., and Scott, RD 2007. FLR: an open-source …

This essay explores shifting scientific understandings of fish and the evolution of fisheries
science, and it grapples with colonialism as a system of power. We trace the rise of fisheries …

Abstract The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) has provided
scientific stock advice based on reference points to manage fisheries in the North Atlantic …

The recent overexploitation of East Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna stock has been
well documented in the media where it has become the archetype of overfishing and …

Fisheries management is complicated in nearly all cases by a high degree of uncertainty
about the current state and expected growth of fish stocks and about the economic and …

Abstract Butterworth, DS, Bentley, N., De Oliveira, JAA, Donovan, GP, Kell, LT, Parma, AM,
Punt, AE, Sainsbury, KJ, Smith, ADM, and Stokes, TK 2010. Purported flaws in management …

Ignoring spatial population structure in the development of fisheries management advice
can affect population resilience and yield. However, the resources required to develop …

Pretty good yield (PGY) is a sustainable fish yield corresponding to obtaining no less than a
specified large percentage of the maximum sustainable yield (MSY). We investigated 19 …