ICES Symposium on Fisheries Management Strategies

The ICES Symposium on Fisheries Management Strategies took place at Radisson SAS Hotel, Galway, Ireland from 27th – 30th June 2006.

Fisheries agencies worldwide are committed to substantial reforms in management practices in the face of collapses of important fish stocks and over capacity of fishing fleets. The reforms attempt to respond to past failures in many parts of the overall fisheries system; failure to address effectively the uncertainties and interactions among the resource, the environment, scientific advice, management decision making and user behaviour.

New practices are based on several components with sweeping implications, including:

• Precautionary Approach
• Ecosystem Approach
• Adaptive Management
• Harvest Control Rules

These components are being introduced to a variety of management regimes including:

• Top down quota or effort management
• Area based management
• Rights based management
• Stewardship and co-management

The study of management strategies as a way to bring order to the diverse opportunities available when these new components of management are implemented in the new management regimes. The Symposium on Fisheries Management Strategies aimed to review and consolidate the experiences being accumulated in this rapidly evolving field. The Symposium highlighted case studies and theoretical developments with contributions from key fisheries systems around the world.

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Book of Abstracts for the Symposium available to download (pdf 449kb).

PowerPoint presentations now available from the Symposium - click here