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Harvest control rules used in US federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience

Christopher M. Free ORCID Tracey Mangin ORCID John Wiedenmann ORCID Conner Smith Halley McVeigh Steven D. Gaines ORCID
Fish and Fisheries Vol. 24 No. 2 pp. 248-262 · Wiley
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Abstract
AbstractClimate change is altering the productivity of marine fisheries and challenging the effectiveness of historical fisheries management. Harvest control rules, which describe the process for determining catch limits in fisheries, represent one pathway for promoting climate resilience. In the USA, flexibility in how regional management councils specify harvest control rules has spawned diverse approaches for reducing catch limits to precautionarily buffer against scientific and management uncertainty, some of which may be more or less resilient to climate change. Here, we synthesize the control rules used to manage all 507 US federally managed fish stocks and stock complexes. We classified these rules into seven typologies: (1) catch‐based; (2) constant catch; (3) constant escapement; (4) constant F; (5) stepped F; (6) ramped F and (7) both stepped and ramped F. We also recorded whether the control rules included a biomass limit (‘cut‐off’) value or were environmentally linked as well as the type and size of the buffers used to protect against scientific and/or management uncertainty. Finally, we review the advantages and disadvantages of each typology for managing fisheries under climate change and provide seven recommendations for updating harvest control rules to improve the resilience of US federally managed fisheries to climate change.
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Published
Dec 16, 2022
Vol/Issue
24(2)
Pages
248-262
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Authors
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Christopher M. Free

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California USA; Marine Science Institute University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California USA

T
Tracey Mangin

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California USA; Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) University of California Santa Barbara California USA

J
John Wiedenmann

Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey New Brunswick New Jersey USA

C
Conner Smith

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California USA

H
Halley McVeigh

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California USA

S
Steven D. Gaines

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California USA; Marine Science Institute University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara California USA

Funding
Walton Family Foundation
Cite This Article
Christopher M. Free, Tracey Mangin, John Wiedenmann, et al. (2022). Harvest control rules used in US federal fisheries management and implications for climate resilience. Fish and Fisheries, 24(2), 248-262. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12724
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