Fisheries Resource Monitoring and Assessment

Question 1

What does MSY stand for?

Answer 1

Maximum sustainable yield

Question 2

What does MEY stand for?

Answer 2

Maximum economic yield

Question 3

What are the objectives of fisheries management?

Answer 3

-Biological
-Financial
Goals that should be considered
-Recreational value
-Social value

Question 4

What is the definition of maximum sustainable yield?

Answer 4

For a given fish stock
-That the highest possible annual catch that can be sustained overtime-

Question 5

What does maximum economic yield mean?

Answer 5

Is the value of the largest positive difference between total revenues and total costs of fishing (including the cost of labour and capital)

Question 6

What are some issues facing fisheries management?

Answer 6

-Fisheries in common areas
-Open to exploitation from all
-Tendency is always towards over-exploitation
-All mature fisheries are over exploited

Question 7

What are some methods to reduce exploitation?

Answer 7

-Restrict access to fishery
-Reduce the catch rate
-Protect undersized and juvenile fish
-Quotas
-Controlled fishing seasons
-Licsencing

Question 8

How are fisheries restricted?

Answer 8

-By reducing the capacity of the fleet
-By reducing time spent fishing by the fleet

Question 9

How can catch rates be reduced?

Answer 9

Imposing TACs
Imposing quotas

Question 10

What is the first priority of fisheries management?

Answer 10

Restricting access to the fishery

Question 11

What is the second priority of fisheries management?

Answer 11

Reducing catch rates

Question 12

What is the third priority of fisheries managemnet?

Answer 12

Protecting undersized and juvenile fish by using Technical conservation measures (TCMs)

Question 13

How are Technical conservation measures benefical?

Answer 13

-Commercially important as small fish increase in size and value if not removed
-Biologically important as fish allowed to contribute to spawning stock

Question 14

What does MLS stand for?

Answer 14

Minimum landing sizes

Question 15

What are some EC technical measures?

Answer 15

-Minimum landing sizes and minimum conservation sizes
-Specifications for design and use of gears
-Minimum mesh sizes for nets
-Requirement of selective gears to reduce unwanted catches
-Closed areas and seasons (spawning/ nursery areas)
-Limits on by-catches
-Measures to limit environmental impacts

Question 16

How can taxes/fees reduce exploitation?

Answer 16

They provide income to manage the fishery
-Yields fluctuate, tax has to be flexible
-Taxes on an already depressed fishery causes problems

Question 17

What things must a fisheries manager consider?

Answer 17

-Economic efficiency- cost of enforcing regulations
-Biological effectiveness
-Reasonable distribution
-Political feasibility