FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI How to provide scientific advice for ecosystem-based management now BT AF TRENKEL, Verena AS 1:1; FF 1:PDG-RBE-EMH; C1 IFREMER, Nantes 3, France. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE SI NANTES SE PDG-RBE-EMH IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 IF 6.655 TC 9 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00416/52784/53851.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;EBFM;Fisheries management;fisheries yield;primary production AB 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. PY 2018 PD MAR SO Fish And Fisheries SN 1467-2960 PU Wiley VL 19 IS 2 UT 000426503000012 BP 390 EP 398 DI 10.1111/faf.12263 ID 52784 ER EF