Researchers consider the management of Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) as a case study of the challenges in transitioning to ecosystem approach to or ecosystem based fisheries management and develop a tool to facilitate the transition.
Menhaden is an abundant and important clupeid fish show a large variety in number of fish that survive to enter a fishery (recruitment). The underlying drivers and spatial patterns of variability are not well understood but researched in this study.