It is almost ten years since the FAO Technical Consultation on the Precautionary Approach
to Capture Fisheries took place in Lysekil, Sweden. One outcome from this Technical …

Abstract Punt, AE and Donovan, GP 2007. Develo** management procedures that are
robust to uncertainty: lessons from the International Whaling Commission.–ICES Journal of …

Fisheries management is complicated in nearly all cases by a high degree of uncertainty
about the current state and expected growth of fish stocks and about the economic and …

The commercial fishery for Jasus lalandii, the South Africa West Coast rock lobster, began in
the late 1800s and at its peak in the early 1950s yielded an annual catch of 18 000 t …

Despite consistent and extensive efforts over the past 50 years by regional management
bodies and national governments to regulate fisheries, fishing capacity has often remained …

Abstract The Southern Zone rock lobster fishery of South Australia has been managed by
individual transferable quotas since 1993, with annual catch limits set using harvest strategy …

In Australian fisheries, explicit harvest control rules are increasingly applied to achieve
bioeconomic objectives. Enhancing economic return, an objective valued by both regional …

We describe a multi‐stock, length‐based Bayesian assessment model for New Zealand
spiny lobster (Jasus edwardsii) fisheries. This model allows simultaneous modelling of two …

Fisheries management science currently places a strong emphasis on computer-based
simulation, in which the relevant components of the system are represented by one or more …

The aim of stock assessment is to provide managers with an understanding of the biomass
and age-/size-composition of a stock, stock status (ideally relative to target and reference …