Projects
| Title | Climate Variability and Tropical Tuna: Management Challenges for Highly Migratory Fish Stocks |
| Type | Research Project |
| URL | dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2006.05.006 |
| Abstract | The 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement facilitates the creation of regional fishery management organizations (RFMOs) to govern harvests of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. The stability and success of these organizations will depend, in part, on how effectively they can maintain member nations’ incentives to cooperate despite the uncertainties and shifting opportunities that may result from climate-driven changes in the productivity, migratory behavior, or catchability of the fish stocks governed by the RFMO. Such climatic impacts may intensify incentives for opportunism, and create other management challenges for the RFMOs now governing tropical tuna fisheries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. |
| Participants | Kathleen A. Miller |
| Start Date | 2006 |
| Funders | NSF |
| Keywords | International fishery cooperation Climate variability Fish stock dynamics |
| Research Themes | Assessment Methods, Products and Tools Use of Scientific Information in Decision Processes Climate-Ecosystem-Human Interactions |
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| "Because the pathway to sustainability cannot be
charted in advance, it will have to be navigated through trial and error and conscious experimentation. The urgent need is to
design strategies and institutions that can better integrate incomplete knowledge with experimental action into programs of
adaptive management and social learning." |
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