FishPath Tool
The user’s “homepage” of the FishPath Tool
What is FishPath Tool Dashboard?
Catch limits aim to directly manage the fishing mortality of target species by setting a maximum for how many individual, or how much weight of, fish can be removed (including bans) by a fishery in a given time period and/or for specific areas
What is set catch by time?
It is an area where fishing is prohibited for some or all species for a long period of time, established to protect habitat, rebuild fish stocks, and protect against overfishing.
What is no-take zones or reserves?
In this case, the first measure taken can be to invoke a program that will continue until enough information is available to inform further harvest control rules.
What is data collection?
The FishPath Tool is designed to be navigated by a trained fisheries scientist who facilitates the use of the tool in a group setting with fishery stakeholders.
What is facilitated engagement process?
This option is commonly applied where there are spatial distinctions in the fishery that warrant spatially heterogeneous management.
What is set effort by area?
It prohibit fishing in designated areas for a fixed time each year. These closures aim to protect critical life history stages of target and/or bycatch species, such as during spawning seasons in areas with spawning grounds.
What is fixed seasonal closure (area-specific)?
If assessment outcomes indicate that the stock appears to be in stable good health, it may be maintained, with no changes to current management.
What is status quo?
data collection, data-limited assessment, and management measures
What are three major components of a harvest strategy?
Fishing effort limits may adjust effort to minimize interactions with threatened, endangered, or protected species or habitat. They are generally used to protect critical life history stages of species (e.g., spawning), to allow habitat to regenerate, or to mitigate against over-exploitation at times of high market demand.
What is set effort by time?
This form of gear management serves to control the selectivity of the fishery by requiring gear modifications such as trap escape rings, by regulating mesh size in a net fishery, or by determining the size of hooks in a line fishery.
What is gear restriction by selectivity?
Penalties that are applied in specific circumstances or contexts to achieve a desired outcome - typically, to avoid undesirable activity or behaviour.
What are tax incentives?
It flags questions for ease of later revisiting for reasons such as if the answer is unknown, it needs further consideration or input, is in dispute, or if the user feels the question is critical.
What is a Bookmark?
It seeks to restrict the total capacity of the fishery. This input control measure may involve limiting the number of participants in the fishery, the number and size of vessels, and/or conditions relating to the transfer of fishing rights.
What is limited entry?
It is often set above the length/size at maturity to allow for individuals to spawn before capture. Gear selectivity regulations may be helpful in achievingit.
What is minimum size limits?
This measure adds a penalty (“buffer”) to a recommended management adjustment. Where there is a high level of uncertainty in the assessment outcome, it should be added to mitigate risk. It is therefore used in combination with other harvest control rules.
What is precautionary adjustments?
Questions will not eliminate options, but rather invoke traffic light-colored warnings (red, yellow, orange), or positive attributes (green), against specific options.
What are caveats?
This option may also assign catch limits among fleets, such as by assigning a maximum catch for sectors that use different gear types.
What is gear-unit limit?
Individual fishers or vessels may be restricted temporally by having a set number of fishing days. The aim is to have the fishery open long enough to permit a sustainable level of catch.
What is fixed season length/duration?
This measure invokes temporary changes to existing harvest control rules or management measures
What is breakout rules or overrides?