Type |
Article |
Date |
2018-03 |
Language |
English |
Author(s) |
Trenkel Verena1 |
Affiliation(s) |
1 : IFREMER, Nantes 3, France. |
Source |
Fish And Fisheries (1467-2960) (Wiley), 2018-03 , Vol. 19 , N. 2 , P. 390-398 |
DOI |
10.1111/faf.12263 |
WOS© Times Cited |
9 |
Note |
Ghoti papers
Ghoti aims to serve as a forum for stimulating and pertinent ideas. Ghoti publishes succinct commentary and opinion that addresses important areas in fish and fisheries science. Ghoti contributions will be innovative and have a perspective that may lead to fresh and productive insight of concepts, issues and research agendas. All Ghoti contributions will be selected by the editors and peer reviewed.
Etymology of Ghoti
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), polymath, playwright, Nobel prize winner and the most prolific letter writer in history, was an advocate of English spelling reform. He was reportedly fond of pointing out its absurdities by proving that “fish” could be spelt “ghoti”. That is, “gh” as in “rough,” “o” as in “women” and “ti” as in palatial. |
Keyword(s) |
EBFM, Fisheries management, fisheries yield, primary production |
Abstract |
n this paper, I argue that we have at hand what is needed to provide scientific advice for ecosystem-based management of small pelagics and other species groups now. The ingredients for this advice are (i) large marine ecosystems as spatial management units; (ii) maintaining ecosystem productivity and exploiting at multispecies maximum yield as overarching management objectives; (iii) assessment of ecosystems by evaluating changes in primary productivity; (iv) an operational management procedure in which single-species catch proposals are adjusted to ecosystem productivity using a set of control rules. Inspection of historic landings for small pelagics and other small species in the Northeast Atlantic (ICES area) reveals that most likely fisheries exploitation does not, and never did, exceed system productivity in most LMEs and is therefore overall sustainable, although not necessarily for individual stocks. |
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