What is Management Strategy Evaluation?

November 23, 2024

AuthorShana Miller

Robust harvest strategies, before they are implemented, are tested through a scientific process called management strategy evaluation (MSE), used to simulate the workings of a fisheries system and test whether potential harvest strategies can achieve the pre-agreed management objectives. MSE helps to identify the harvest strategy likely to perform best, regardless of uncertainty, and balance trade-offs amid competing management objectives. Because MSE is so fundamental to harvest strategies, some consider the term to encompass the process of harvest strategy development itself. Explore our data visualization tools for MSE results, and check out our animation to learn more about MSE.

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The population of Northeast Atlantic mackerel is at a low. Governments are taking steps to develop a long-term management strategy that (if well implemented) would recover the species. Adopting an MSE-tested LTMS is the goal for 2026-27. Read the blog: https://tinyurl.com/374fef57

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Join for our next #webinar: "Exceptional Circumstances: Preparing for the Unexpected" - July 23 @ 14:00 ET! We'll discuss how RFMOs have defined/responded to ECs, including the role of EC protocols in identifying, reviewing, and adapting #MPs.

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We attended SENA in March & kicked off the All Tunas 2028 initiative with the @theGEF-funded #CommonOceansTunaProject.

#AllTunas2028 aims to give seafood markets a voice to promote adoption of MPs for tuna stocks by the end of 2028.

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