TY - JOUR
T1 - Food for thought: pretty good multispecies yield
AU - Rindorf, Anna
AU - Dichmont, C. M.
AU - Levin, P.S.
AU - Mace, Pamela
AU - Pascoe, S.
AU - Prellezo, Raul
AU - Punt, A.E.
AU - Reid, David G.
AU - Stephenson, Robert
AU - Ulrich, Clara
AU - Vinther, Morten
AU - Worsøe Clausen, Lotte
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - MSY principles for marine fisheries management reflect a focus on obtaining continued high catches to provide food and livelihoods for humanity, while not compromising ecosystems. However, maintaining healthy stocks to provide the maximum sustainable yield on a single-species basis does not ensure that broader ecosystem, economic, and social objectives are addressed. We investigate how the principles of a “pretty good yield” range of fishing mortalities assumed to provide >95% of the average yield for a single stock can be expanded to a pretty good multispecies yield (PGMY) space and further to pretty good multidimensional yield to accommodate situations where the yield from a stock affects the ecosystem, economic and social benefits, or sustainability. We demonstrate in a European example that PGMY is a practical concept. As PGMY provides a safe operating space for management that adheres to the principles of MSY, it allows the consideration of other aspects to be included in operational management advice in both data-rich and data-limited situations. PGMY furthermore provides a way to integrate advice across stocks, avoiding clearly infeasible management combinations, and thereby hopefully increasing confidence in scientific advice
AB - MSY principles for marine fisheries management reflect a focus on obtaining continued high catches to provide food and livelihoods for humanity, while not compromising ecosystems. However, maintaining healthy stocks to provide the maximum sustainable yield on a single-species basis does not ensure that broader ecosystem, economic, and social objectives are addressed. We investigate how the principles of a “pretty good yield” range of fishing mortalities assumed to provide >95% of the average yield for a single stock can be expanded to a pretty good multispecies yield (PGMY) space and further to pretty good multidimensional yield to accommodate situations where the yield from a stock affects the ecosystem, economic and social benefits, or sustainability. We demonstrate in a European example that PGMY is a practical concept. As PGMY provides a safe operating space for management that adheres to the principles of MSY, it allows the consideration of other aspects to be included in operational management advice in both data-rich and data-limited situations. PGMY furthermore provides a way to integrate advice across stocks, avoiding clearly infeasible management combinations, and thereby hopefully increasing confidence in scientific advice
U2 - 10.1093/icesjms/fsw071
DO - 10.1093/icesjms/fsw071
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1054-3139
VL - 74
SP - 475
EP - 486
JO - ICES Journal of Marine Science
JF - ICES Journal of Marine Science
IS - 2
ER -