Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experience
China's 13th Five-Year Plan elevated the national mandate for environmental sustainability. Chinese fisheries are characterized by full retention of high diversity catch harvested using unselective gears, creating ecological risks. Therefore, China launched pilot projects in management by Total...
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| author | Jacob P. Kritzer Yi Tang Yong Chen Chris Costello Sarah Gaichas Tom Nies Ernesto Peñas Keith Sainsbury Changchun Shen Cody Szuwalski Wenbin Zhu |
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| description | China's 13th Five-Year Plan elevated the national mandate for environmental sustainability. Chinese fisheries are characterized by full retention of high diversity catch harvested using unselective gears, creating ecological risks. Therefore, China launched pilot projects in management by Total Allowable Catch (TAC) in five coastal provinces in 2017 and 2018 to build experience with output controls. Fujian province launched an important pilot in its swimming crab fishery, the first to adopt a multispecies approach. To guide Fujian and other provinces in multispecies management, a workshop in April 2018 shared international experience. The workshop considered 13 case studies spanning a wide range of underlying scientific models and types of harvest controls. Multispecies harvest controls based on simple survey- or index-based models that aggregate trends for many species are typically operationally easier for managers and fishers. However, inadequate management can cause declines of individual species, sometimes leading to adoption of species-specific models and then species-specific harvest controls. This transition often incurs economic costs through scientific and management demands, and constraints on harvest of co-occurring species. The lessons revealed by the case studies suggest multispecies TACs might be effective in the Fujian swimming crab fishery given the modest number of species with similar and productive life history traits, and the market demand for all species. Continued experimentation with different management approaches through pilot projects can enable China to maintain progress toward sustainable fisheries goals under the 14th Five-Year Plan. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5700212021e642179bf2a385251e834e2024-04-28T07:11:34ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Aquaculture and Fisheries2468-550X2023-05-0183351362Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experienceJacob P. Kritzer0Yi Tang1Yong Chen2Chris Costello3Sarah Gaichas4Tom Nies5Ernesto Peñas6Keith Sainsbury7Changchun Shen8Cody Szuwalski9Wenbin Zhu10Environmental Defense Fund, 18 Tremont St #850, Boston, MA, 02108, USA; Corresponding author. Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems, 195 New Hampshire Avenue #240, Portsmouth, NH, 03801, USA.College of Marine Culture and Law, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, 201306, ChinaSchool of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, 04469, USABren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California – Santa Barbara, 2400 Bren Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93117, USANortheast Fisheries Science Center, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USANew England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, , Mill 2, Newburyport, MA, 01950, USAEuropean Bureau of Conservation and Development, Rue de la Science 10, Brussels, 1000, BelgiumInstitute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, 20 Castray Esplanade, Battery Point, Tasmania, 7004, AustraliaFujian Fisheries Research Institute, Xiamen, 350025, ChinaAlaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Seattle, WA, 98115, USAZhejiang Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Zhoushan, 310024, ChinaChina's 13th Five-Year Plan elevated the national mandate for environmental sustainability. Chinese fisheries are characterized by full retention of high diversity catch harvested using unselective gears, creating ecological risks. Therefore, China launched pilot projects in management by Total Allowable Catch (TAC) in five coastal provinces in 2017 and 2018 to build experience with output controls. Fujian province launched an important pilot in its swimming crab fishery, the first to adopt a multispecies approach. To guide Fujian and other provinces in multispecies management, a workshop in April 2018 shared international experience. The workshop considered 13 case studies spanning a wide range of underlying scientific models and types of harvest controls. Multispecies harvest controls based on simple survey- or index-based models that aggregate trends for many species are typically operationally easier for managers and fishers. However, inadequate management can cause declines of individual species, sometimes leading to adoption of species-specific models and then species-specific harvest controls. This transition often incurs economic costs through scientific and management demands, and constraints on harvest of co-occurring species. The lessons revealed by the case studies suggest multispecies TACs might be effective in the Fujian swimming crab fishery given the modest number of species with similar and productive life history traits, and the market demand for all species. Continued experimentation with different management approaches through pilot projects can enable China to maintain progress toward sustainable fisheries goals under the 14th Five-Year Plan.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468550X21001532Multispecies fisheriesPilot projectsTotal allowable catchHarvest controlsInternational workshopFive-year plan |
| spellingShingle | Jacob P. Kritzer Yi Tang Yong Chen Chris Costello Sarah Gaichas Tom Nies Ernesto Peñas Keith Sainsbury Changchun Shen Cody Szuwalski Wenbin Zhu Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experience Aquaculture and Fisheries Multispecies fisheries Pilot projects Total allowable catch Harvest controls International workshop Five-year plan |
| title | Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experience |
| title_full | Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experience |
| title_fullStr | Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experience |
| title_short | Advancing multispecies fishery management in China: Lessons from international experience |
| title_sort | advancing multispecies fishery management in china lessons from international experience |
| topic | Multispecies fisheries Pilot projects Total allowable catch Harvest controls International workshop Five-year plan |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468550X21001532 |
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