How do stakeholders contribute to developing a harvest strategy?

November 23, 2024

AuthorSara Pipernos
Program Associate, International Fisheries

Many Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) have created official working groups dedicated to discussions about harvest strategies, simultaneously providing an opportunity for education and capacity building and soliciting input and feedback. In this way, the working groups help to steer the development process. These groups typically meet intersessionally, including scientists, managers, industry stakeholders, and NGO representatives. These science-management dialogue (SMD) groups are an essential part of harvest strategy development, helping to facilitate a conversation focused on laying out objectives, timelines, management strategy evaluation (MSE) workplans, and educational materials that move the process toward adoption.

For more information, check out this journal article on stakeholder participation in MSE and our factsheet and infographic outlining how to put a management procedure together and the role of different stakeholder groups.