SOCIO-ECOLOGY IN FISHERIES SCIENCES
(CFRN; CANADIAN FISHERIES RESEARCH NETWORK)
Managers and harvesters response to stock abundance
Managers and harvesters response to stock abundance
Quotas, commercial effort and catch were entrained by contemporaneous estimates of stock abundance. Recreational effort and harvest were not; they had better tracked abundance, as better estimated today, than did the commercial fishery. (Turgeon et al. submitted).
Supply & demand can result in dysfunctional fisheries
Harvest and price statistics, that are commonly available for commercial fisheries, can be used to diagnose the degree to which a given fishery has been overharvested and to identify plausible targets for fishery rehabilitation and evaluate the effectiveness of alternative policy options to achieve those goals (Fryxell et al. 2017).
Enhancing fisheries education in Canada
We compared the value of the CFRN students’ learning experience to that offered in traditional fisheries programs at Canadian universities in training post-graduate students to tackle complex fisheries problems. We reviewed the current state of fisheries education across Canada and offered reflections on our training within the CFRN, and challenges to implementing its innovative approach to fisheries education. (Turgeon et al. 2018).