UNIT 2: Fisheries management

2 Purpose of management Activity 2.1: Class views on what is fisheries management? What is fisheries management? “The application of fisheries management tools to achieve fisheries management objectives” Why? – without management, fish stocks will be depleted Management objectives Ecological Economic Social Cultural

3 Purpose of management Example management objectives: Ensure that traditional resource use is preserved and promoted Maximise the economic and social benefits of the fishery Minimise bycatch Minimise damage to fishery habitats Ensure the fishery stock is at or near maximum sustainable economic yield Good management – will balance competing objectives while maintaining fisheries sustainability.

4 Management tools Input controls – tools that indirectly control catch using fishing effort restrictions. Limiting the number of fishers and/or boats (by licences or other means). Gear restrictions. Limits on the number of fishing days. Temporal (e.g. seasonal closures) or spatial closures.

5 Management tools Output controls – tools that directly restrict catch. Total allowable catch restrictions (TACs). Individual transferable quotas (ITQs). Bag and size limits. PNG lobster fishery PNG live reef fish fishery

6 Input/output controls Input controls: Mesh size restrictions Bycatch reduction devices Hook number limits Vessel size restrictions Vessel and fisher number limits Fishing day restrictions Night spearfishing restrictions Spawning closures No-take areas Number of licenses Output controls: Total Allowable Catch Individual Transferable Quota Bag limits Size limits

7 Management tools in action

8 Local management Activity 2.2: Spend ~10 mins reading local fisheries management plans provided and identify input and output control measures. Write them down on separate sticky note paper and place on the flip chart under each heading: Input controls & Output controls.

9 Unit review Fisheries management goal is to avoid depleting stocks. Fisheries management uses tools to achieve different management objectives. Input controls – control fishing effort. Output controls – directly control what can be caught.

10 Local management 15 minute personal review: unit review, students to review main concepts of unit in the course notes, contribute any new words (new to them) to their own personal glossary in the back of their notebook (local language equivalent terms should also be recorded where possible)