60057 Document Published / External 59949 Sedar 8 Review Workshop Project 2004 This paper develops and explores the use of five indices representing resiliency, yield productivity, yield constancy, capacity constancy, and ecosystem productivity to evaluate natural-resource management alternatives. Too frequently, managers and their scientific advisors have miscommunications because managers want simple answers to complicated questions and scientists are uncomfortable providing information that might seem value-laden. Indices can give managers a framework within which to ask for scientific advice and scientists a mechanism for presenting likely consequences of management decisions without favoring particular values. Five quantitative indices representing common fishery management objectives are developed, and their use is illustrated through tests of various control rules in simple simulated-population models. The results provide an example of how to meld societal values with scientific analyses in the policy arena. They also give insight into the effectiveness of various control rules and highlight better alternatives to current practices. The benefits of such an approach extend well beyond fisheries management. Many natural-resource policy processes share the characteristics that make the use of multiple performance indices valuable, including unpredictability, complexity, and diversity of opinion. Bull. Mar. Sci 74(3) 709-726 Theme Panulirus argus Theme growth Theme mortality Theme spiny lobster Spatial Caribbean Spatial Puerto Rico Acrobat Portable Document Format Final Distributor 2005 Organization SEDAR 4055 Faber Place North Charleston SC 29405 United States (843) 571-4366 http://sedarweb.org Homepage SouthEast Data Assessment and Review Online Resource https://sedarweb.org/docs/wsupp/SEDAR8%20RD26.pdf 2005 Organization SEDAR SEDAR8 RD26.pdf pdf PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format Uncompressed Chked Viruses Inapp Content https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/umrsmas/bullmar/2004/00000074/00000003/art00016 Online Resource Landing Page To Download Paper gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:60057 Lee Weinberger 2020-06-17T21:14:23 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2023-10-17T16:12:20 2020-06-18 Southeast Fisheries Science Center SEFSC 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA (305)361-5761 www.sefsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST 1001 Public No 2020-06-18 1 Year 2021-06-18