What are the key components of a harvest strategy?

November 23, 2024

AuthorSara Pipernos
Program Associate, International Fisheries ✉

Although management bodies name and define them slightly differently, all harvest strategies include these basic elements: management objectives; a monitoring program; indicators of the fishery’s status and population health, with associated reference points; a method to assess those indicators; and harvest control rules that set fishing opportunities, which could include catch and size limits, depending on the value of key indicators relative to the reference points.

 

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