Optimum Yield for Recreational Fisheries Management

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Optimum yield (OY) calls for fishery professionals to deliberately and meaningfully incorporate biological, economic, and social values into fishery management decision making. This invitation eventually will require a large, multidisciplinary database for a fishery, but that reality is in the distant future. For now, OY compels us to consider a paradigm shift. The new paradigm would require decision makers to choose a list of essential variables that would be examined and weighed in concert before developing management plans. Here, we present four OY management accounts (biological, sociocultural, economic, and human health) as the conceptual framework for this OY data-gathering. Depending on the mix of user groups, each management account would generate several important variables that should be considered as a starting point for OY decision making for a fishery. The suggested data can be obtained easily through routine creel surveys. Our reconceptualization of OY is intended to shift the conte...

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