Initial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheries

dc.contributor.authorGeromont, Helena F
dc.contributor.authorButterworth, Doug S
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-15T13:15:15Z
dc.date.available2016-03-15T13:15:15Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2016-03-15T13:09:24Z
dc.description.abstractThe vast majority of fish stocks in South Africa are not managed quantitatively as there is not sufficient data (such as an index of abundance) on which to base a resource assessment. In addition, these stocks are relatively “low-value”, which renders dedicated scientific management too costly, and a generic approach is therefore required. The aim of this work is to design and test some very simple “off-the-shelf” management procedures (MPs) that can be applied to groups of data-poor fisheries that share some key characteristics in terms of demographic parameters. For this initial investigation, a selection of empirical MPs is simulation tested on a wide range of operating models (OMs) representing the underlying dynamics of the resource in order to ascertain how well the different MPs perform. While the data-rich MPs perform somewhat better than the data-poor ones, as would be expected, it seems that the very simple data-poor MPs are surprisingly robust to a wide range of uncertainty for key parameters and could well be candidates to manage the South African data-poor stocks, ensuring perhaps not optimum, but at least relatively stable sustainable future catches.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationGeromont, H. F., & Butterworth, D. S. (2010). <i>Initial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheries</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17822en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationGeromont, Helena F, and Doug S Butterworth <i>Initial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheries.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Marine Resource Assessment and Management Group, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17822en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationGeromont, H. F., & Butterworth, D. S. (2010). Initial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheries. Marine Resource Assessment and Management group.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Geromont, Helena F AU - Butterworth, Doug S AB - The vast majority of fish stocks in South Africa are not managed quantitatively as there is not sufficient data (such as an index of abundance) on which to base a resource assessment. In addition, these stocks are relatively “low-value”, which renders dedicated scientific management too costly, and a generic approach is therefore required. The aim of this work is to design and test some very simple “off-the-shelf” management procedures (MPs) that can be applied to groups of data-poor fisheries that share some key characteristics in terms of demographic parameters. For this initial investigation, a selection of empirical MPs is simulation tested on a wide range of operating models (OMs) representing the underlying dynamics of the resource in order to ascertain how well the different MPs perform. While the data-rich MPs perform somewhat better than the data-poor ones, as would be expected, it seems that the very simple data-poor MPs are surprisingly robust to a wide range of uncertainty for key parameters and could well be candidates to manage the South African data-poor stocks, ensuring perhaps not optimum, but at least relatively stable sustainable future catches. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Initial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheries TI - Initial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheries UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17822 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/17822
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.mth.uct.ac.za/maram/pub/2010/MARAM_IWS_DEC10_DPA_P2.pdf
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationGeromont HF, Butterworth DS. Initial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheries. 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17822en_ZA
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dc.publisher.departmentMarine Resource Assessment and Management Groupen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherInitial investigation
dc.subject.otherGeneric management procedures
dc.subject.otherData-poor fisheries
dc.titleInitial investigation of generic management procedures for data-poor fisheriesen_ZA
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uct.subject.keywordsInitial investigation; Generic management procedures; Data-poor fisheriesen_ZA
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