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Operationalizing triple bottom line harvest strategies

Operationalizing triple bottom line harvest strategies

Authors :
Tom Roberts
Natalie A. Dowling
Catherine M. Dichmont
Sean Pascoe
Rachel Pears
Toni Cannard
Marc Mangel
Sian Breen
George M. Leigh
Source :
ICES Journal of Marine Science. 78:731-742
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020.

Abstract

Over the past 50 years, the diversity of fisheries types being actively managed has changed from mainly data-rich, industrial sectors to more socially, economically, and environmentally complex multispecies and multisector fisheries. Accompanying this change has been a broadening of management objectives to include social and economic considerations with traditional resource sustainability objectives, the so-called triple bottom line, and the need to include these considerations into harvest strategies. The case of a line fishery in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is used as a demonstration of the first steps in implementing triple bottom line harvest strategies. This fishery has several disparate sectors including commercial, tourism, and recreation; targets multiple but important reef species; and is undertaken in a World Heritage Site. This work highlights the need for a much-expanded set of objectives elicited from stakeholders that are either included in the trade-off analyses of the different harvest strategies or directly in an optimization. Both options demonstrated that a paradigm shift is required to emphasize representative participatory management systems that assemble teams from quite different backgrounds and viewpoints; use much broader set of objectives; and modify tools and (especially) the data collected within revised monitoring programmes to underpin these tools.

Details

ISSN :
10959289 and 10543139
Volume :
78
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........62861029b4ce7438e44dd66492197b8f
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa033