Guiding Principles for Development of Effective Commercial Fishery Monitoring Programs

Monitoring of fishing activities is an essential component of successful fisheries management that can provide verifiable fishery-dependent data on fishing activities and help assess performance and success of fisheries management plans. Fishery managers and stakeholders have often struggled in deve...

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Published in:Fisheries 2015-01, Vol.40 (1), p.20-25
Main Authors: Zollett, Erika A, Trumble, Robert J, Swasey, Jill H, Stebbins, Shawn B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Experts
Fisheries
Fisheries management
Fishery data
Fishery development
Fishery management
Fishing
funding
learning
managers
Monitoring
stakeholders
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Summary:Monitoring of fishing activities is an essential component of successful fisheries management that can provide verifiable fishery-dependent data on fishing activities and help assess performance and success of fisheries management plans. Fishery managers and stakeholders have often struggled in developing and implementing effective monitoring programs due to lack of information, funding, and peer-to-peer learning from existing monitoring programs. This article draws on the experience of over 25 national and international monitoring experts and reflects the most important lessons learned from commercial fisheries regarding the development and implementation of effective monitoring programs. The article discusses a set of “guiding principles,” developed in consultation with the monitoring experts, which provide fishery managers and stakeholders with cumulative knowledge and references to more easily develop comprehensive, appropriate, and effective monitoring approaches.
ISSN:1548-8446
0363-2415
1548-8446
1548-8675
DOI:10.1080/03632415.2015.989124