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The Global Fisheries Crisis: Ecological, Economic, and Social Dimensions

The Global Fisheries Crisis: Ecological, Economic, and Social Dimensions. Nicolas Gutierrez, Olaf Jensen, Michael Melnychuk, & Suresh Sethi with Trevor Branch and Daniel Schindler UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Outline. Status of global fisheries Drivers of fishery development

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The Global Fisheries Crisis: Ecological, Economic, and Social Dimensions

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  1. The Global Fisheries Crisis: Ecological, Economic, and Social Dimensions Nicolas Gutierrez, Olaf Jensen, Michael Melnychuk, & Suresh Sethi with Trevor Branch and Daniel Schindler UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

  2. Outline Status of global fisheries Drivers of fishery development Management options for sustainable fisheries: Catch Shares Co-Management

  3. Impacts of fishing NEW TARGET OLD TARGET

  4. Current status

  5. Trends in fishery indicators

  6. Fishery development 1950-2004 development year = catch first reaches 25% of max annual catch No trend

  7. Harvest better opportunities first Fishing deeper Fishing smaller

  8. Fishing is a mature industry

  9. Effects of catch share systems Essington 2010, PNAS

  10. Europe South Africa Argentina New Zealand Australia US SE coast/Gulf of Mexico US NE coast Canada east coast Canada west coast US west coast US Alaska TAC with catch shares (n=35) Exploitation under different management types TAC only (n=71) Frequency Effort control (n=15) ± s.e. TAC with catch shares TAC only Effort control log of F : Fmsy ratio log of F : Fmsy ratio

  11. Catch shares align incentives of individual fishermen with management goals • Generally work with developed regulatory agencies • At the community level, how might incentives of a group of resource users be aligned with management objectives ? Giving stakeholders a lasting stake

  12. Fisheries Co-Management • Institutional arrangement where responsibility for resource management is shared between the government and user groups Modified from Ostrom 2009 Science

  13. Global Review • Success Score (SS): • ΣOutcomes = 8 • ~ 50% with SS ≥ 6 mean ± SE n = 121

  14. Keys for co-management success

  15. Conclusions • Many fisheries are overfished or collapsed, but many are healthy or recovered. • Pattern of profit-driven fishing evident at a global scale. Commercial fishing is now a mature industry. • We can achieve sustainable fisheries with appropriate management including catch shares and co-management.

  16. Acknowledgments Co-authors on Worm et al. 2009: Boris Worm, Ray Hilborn, Julia Baum, Trevor Branch, Jeremy Collie, Chris Costello, Mike Fogarty, Beth Fulton, Jeff Hutchings, Simon Jennings, Heike Lotze, Pamela Mace, Tim McClanahan, Coilin Minto, Steve Palumbi, Ana Parma, Dan Ricard, Andy Rosenberg, Reg Watson, Dirk Zeller Global fishery development data are from the Sea Around Us Project and the Fisheries Economics Research Unit of the University of British Columbia Funding: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Lenfest Oceans Program, David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

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