Marine capture fisheries face major and complex challenges: habitat degradation, poor economic returns, social hardships from depleted stocks, illegal fishing, and climate change, among others. The key factors that prevent the transition to sustainable fisheries are information failures,...

Unpredictable environmental fluctuations are a major problem in fisheries. To mitigate these uncertainties, reserves are advocated to help ensure population persistence, reduce population and harvest variance, provide a 'hedge' against management failures and increase resilience. Using recent...

The paper develops a benchmarking framework to improve fisheries governance and promote resilient ecosystems and profitable fisheries. The benchmarking includes five key components: accountability, transparency, incentives, risk assessment and management; and adaptability. Collectively, these...

The purpose of this rejoinder is to respond to and question the many assertions made by Pinkerton et al. in the recently published Marine Policy article entitled: "The elephant in the room: The hidden costs of leasing individual transferable fishing quotas". Particular attention is paid to the...

The precarious state of many of the world's important commercial fisheries have called into question the ability of government agencies to carry out mandates related to stock conservation and sustainability. This paper argues that the prominent role of government agencies in building fisheries...

The traditional fisheries management objectives of maximizing yield and employment lead to heavily exploited stocks. Many current high-profile disputes arise from conflicting objectives, and the proposed solutions to "the fisheries problem" are primarily particular stakeholders' efforts to have...

In the British Columbia groundfish fishery (BC fishery), full observer coverage and the accounting of discard mortality of marketable fish in landing limits resulted in low discard fractions. When individual transferable quotas (ITQs) were additionally introduced, total discard fractions...

In 1994 Marine Policy published an article on "Chaos, complexity and community management of fisheries" by J A Wilson, J Acheson and P Kleban. It has given rise to a lively discourse in the journal and the editor is pleased to provide space for this further contribution to the debate.

Movements of skipjack and yellowfin tuna are reassessed in this article and it is shown that long-distance movements are the exception rather than the rule for these species and that for countries with large economic zones, stocks may be considered resident. Under current economic conditions,...