Broken into three categories for improvement, the first chapter looks at the biological, economic, and social makeup of the fishery. Goals are then set to either solve the purported problems, or maintain positive aspects of the fishery. Overfishing is most often a problem to be addressed, as are diminishing profits for the historical users. At the same time, these historical users may also wish to maintain the structure of the fleet and current participants.
While this may seem like a simple place to start, a main focus of the chapter was tradeoffs that must be made in order to preserve aspects that are most important. For example, it is not always possible to preserve the makeup of the fleet while at the same time maximizing profits. The underlying issue could be that too much effort is being applied, in which case the fleet’s structure may have to be drastically altered in order to meet the paramount biological goals and the secondary profit-maximizing goal.
How will the manager determine what course of action to take? We must read on…
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