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Creating a Community Context for the Fishery Stock Sustainability Index
Author(s) -
Jacob Steve,
Jepson Michael
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446-34.5.228
Subject(s) - fishing , sustainability , stock (firearms) , business , fishery , index (typography) , fish stock , fisheries management , environmental resource management , stock assessment , economics , geography , ecology , computer science , biology , archaeology , world wide web
Federal fisheries managers are required by National Standard 8 of the Magnuson‐Stevens Act to consider the social and economic impacts of their proposed regulations on fishing communities. For social impacts, this is often achieved by intensive qualitative research techniques. Efforts have been underway to utilize more quantitative measures that rely on secondary data. Secondary data relies upon information that has already been collected; usually for another purpose. Unfortunately, this often means that direct measures of variables of interest to fisheries managers are often unavailable. Utilizing the Fishery Stock Status Index, this research develops two new indicators from a manipulation that directly measures the sustainability of the fish species a community relies upon for income. These two new measures could be of great assistance to fisheries managers as they assess the impacts of regulatory change.