60058 Document Published / External 59949 Sedar 8 Review Workshop Project 2002 Years of scientific inquiry have developed sophisticated methods for setting fishing quotas. Unfortunately, these methods tend to be information intensive and can lead to population crashes if information is wrong. Previous work has illustrated that highly responsive quota systems, which curb fishing decisively when stocks drop below target abundance levels, promote optimum average yields in varying environments and when parameters are uncertain. These policies have generally been rejected, though, because they make fishing yields uncertain and create the potential for temporary closures. They have also been criticized because the managed population can crash if abundance is overestimated. We performed analyses to reexamine the performance of highly responsive management systems. Our analyses show that these systems outperform less-responsive alternatives at maintaining healthy stocks and productive fish catches when managers misestimate parameters. Although these systems can cause populations to crash under the circumstances previously identified, we were able to show that they are less prone to do so under all circumstances than less-responsive constant-fishing-mortality systems. We discuss the implications of this work for fisheries management and highlight methods for achieving highly responsive management systems that are both precautionary and ecosystem-oriented. Bull. Mar. Sci 70(2):715-731 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%20RD27.pdf 2005 Organization SEDAR SEDAR8 RD27.pdf pdf PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format Uncompressed Chked Viruses Inapp Content https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/2002/00000070/00000002/art00022 Online Resource Landing Page To Download Paper gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:60058 Lee Weinberger 2020-06-17T22:00:21 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