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Optimum Yield for Recreational Fisheries Management
Author(s) -
Malvestuto Stephen P.,
Hudgins Michael D.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446(1996)021<0006:oyfrfm>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - recreational fishing , fishery , yield (engineering) , recreation , fisheries management , environmental science , business , fishing , biology , ecology , materials science , metallurgy
Optimum yield (OY) calls for fishery professionals to deliberately and meaningfully incorporate biological, economic, and social values into fishery management decision making. This invitation eventually will require a large, multidisciplinary database for a fishery, but that reality is in the distant future. For now, OY compels us to consider a paradigm shift. The new paradigm would require decision makers to choose a list of essential variables that would be examined and weighed in concert before developing management plans. Here, we present four OY management accounts (biological, sociocultural, economic, and human health) as the conceptual framework for this OY data‐gathering. Depending on the mix of user groups, each management account would generate several important variables that should be considered as a starting point for OY decision making for a fishery. The suggested data can be obtained easily through routine creel surveys. Our reconceptualization of OY is intended to shift the content and focus of recreational fishery management plans toward evaluating and promoting diverse sociocultural benefits to anglers and communities.