Assessing the welfare impacts of changes in recreational fisheries management: A modelling approach for European sea bass

Cevenini, Fabio; Andrews, Barnaby; Muench, Angela; Lamb, Philip D.; Ferrini, Silvia; Hyder, Kieran

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105408

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“…Such an approach already fails to consider social and non-harvestrelated economic aspects of sustainability, because the fishery objectives of the RF sector are often socio-economic and decoupled from retained catch. A continued focus on ecological sustainability in HSs, potentially at the expense of socio-economic considerations (Cevenini et al, 2023), is clear from the types of objectives specified for the RF sector in HSs considered in the current study (Table 3), although objectives regarding value for recreational and charter fishers were often included in numerous regions. The focus on ecological objectives for the RF sector likely mirrors a broader issue regarding limited implementation of the TBL to fishery HSs (Dowling et al, 2020), because articulating operational social objectives is challenging, as is relating economic objectives to the level of harvest.…”

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“…Such an approach already fails to consider social and non-harvest-related economic aspects of sustainability because the fishery objectives of the RF sector are often socioeconomic and decoupled from retained catch. A continued focus on ecological sustainability in HSs, potentially at the expense of socioeconomic considerations(Cevenini et al, 2023), is clear from the types of objectives specified for the RF sector in HSs considered in the current study (Table…”

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Toward sustainable harvest strategies for marine fisheries that include recreational fishing

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Recreational fishing (RF) is a large yet undervalued component of fisheries globally. While progress has been made in monitoring, assessing, and managing the sector in isolation, integration of RF into the management of multi‐sector fisheries has been limited, particularly relative to the commercial sector. This marginalises recreational fishers and reduces the likelihood of achieving the sector's objectives and, more broadly, achieving fisheries sustainability. We examined the nature and extent of RF inclusion in harvest strategies (HSs) for marine fisheries across 15 regions in 11 nations to define the gap in inclusion that has developed between sectors. We focused on high‐income nations with a high level of RF governance and used a questionnaire to elicit expert knowledge on HSs due to the paucity of published documents. In total, 339 HSs were considered. We found that RF inclusion in HSs was more similar to the small‐scale sector (i.e., artisanal, cultural, or subsistence) than the commercial sector, with explicit operational objectives, data collection, performance indicators, reference points, and management controls lacking in many regions. Where specified, RF objectives focused on sustainability, economic value and catch allocation rather than directly relating to the recreational fishing experience. Conflicts with other sectors included competition with the commercial sector for limited resources, highlighting the importance of equitable resource allocation policies alongside HSs. We propose that RF be explicitly incorporated into HSs to ensure fisheries are ecologically, economically, and socially sustainable, and we recommend that fisheries organisations urgently review HSs for marine fisheries with a recreational component to close the harvest strategy gap among sectors.

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