{"id":2301,"date":"2010-10-19T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2010-10-22T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:37:41","slug":"catch-share-design-manual-and-online-design-center-provide-guidance-for-fishery-managers-and-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2010\/10\/19\/catch-share-design-manual-and-online-design-center-provide-guidance-for-fishery-managers-and-fishermen\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Share Design Manual and Online Design Center Provide Guidance for Fishery Managers and Fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kate Bonzon, EDF Director of Design Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kate Bonzon<\/strong><\/a> leads Catch Share Design Services at EDF and authored the Catch Share Design Manual<\/a><\/strong> along with her team, Karly McIlwain, Kent C. Strauss, and Tonya Van Leuvan. <\/em><\/p>\n

Overfishing is the biggest driver of declining fisheries globally, and conventional fishery management approaches have failed to correct this. Conventional management has led to unsafe derby-style fishing, increasingly shrinking fishing seasons, and low market prices all while fish populations in the ocean continue to decline.<\/p>\n

We need a different approach.<\/p>\n

Catch share management is a solution to overfishing that keeps fishermen on the water and fishing as fish resources recover. Under catch share management, managers establish a scientifically-set, fishery-wide catch limit; assign portions of the catch, or shares, to individuals or groups of fishermen; and hold them directly accountable to stay within the catch limit.<\/p>\n

Increasingly, fishery managers and fishermen are looking to catch shares as a locally-designed solution to failed fisheries management (about 275 programs already exist worldwide in fisheries large and small). Identifying the biological, economic and social goals of a fishery and incorporating design elements to meet these goals is critical to the program\u2019s success for fishermen, fishing communities and the resource. As fishery managers and fishermen go through the design process, they have a flexible array of options from which to choose.<\/p>\n

But, understanding what options exist and what process works for catch share design has been a key challenge in program development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s a dynamic new tool and guide to help improve understanding of catch share programs around the world: the Catch Share Design Center<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 The Design Center includes several new tools and resources:<\/p>\n