Effective Fisheries Management under Attack
April 13, 2017
4/11/17 – A fisheries management tool called “catch shares,” described and recommended by a trio of ocean analysts in Issues nearly a decade ago, has gained advocates and opponents alike as it has been applied in various US waters and elsewhere. Now, a new study summarized here provides what the researchers call the “first systematic evidence” that the approach works, just as pressures are increasing within the federal government and some states to revise or reject the use of catch shares.