Selecting and assessing social objectives for Australian fisheries management

Kate Brooks, Jacki Schirmer, Sean Pascoe, Lianos Triantafillos, Eddie Jebreen, Toni Cannard and Cathy M. Dichmont

Marine Policy, 2015, vol. 53, issue C, 111-122

Abstract: This paper details Australian research that developed tools to assist fisheries managers and government agencies in engaging with the social dimension of industry and community welfare in fisheries management. These tools are in the form of objectives and indicators. These highlight the social dimensions and the effects of management plans and policy implementation on fishing industries and associated communities, while also taking into account the primacy of ecological imperatives. The deployment of these objectives and indicators initially provides a benchmark and, over the life of a management plan, can subsequently be used to identify trends in effects on a variety of social and economic elements that may be objectives in the management of a fishery. It is acknowledged that the degree to which factors can be monitored will be dependent upon resources of management agencies, however these frameworks provide a method for effectively monitoring and measuring change in the social dimension of fisheries management.

Keywords: Social objectives; Indicators; Fisheries policy; Management assessment; Performance measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2014.11.023

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