1. Start-up Meeting
Presentations
Before and after WP meeting
INCOFISH WP 7

2. Simple Indicators for
Sustainable Fisheries
Project Objectives
INCOFISH WP 7

3. 3
Outline
• WP Goal
• List of WP members
• Brief introduction to indicators concept
• WP objectives and deliverables
• WP milestones and time table
• Open discussion

4. 4
WP 7 Goal
Identify, apply, and evaluate the use of
indicators that have the potential to
end overfishing

5. 5
WP 7 Members are:
• Joe Ryan
• Mauricio Castrejón
• Graham Watkins
• Birane Samb
• Rainer Froese
• Amanda Stern-Pirlot
• Michael Ballón
• Carlos Benites-Rodriguez
• Lynne Shannon
• Vachira Lheknim
• Graham Pierce
• Cristina Pita
CABAL S.A., Nicaragua
CDF
CDF
CRODT, Senegal
IfM-GEOMAR
IfM-GEOMAR
IMARPE, Peru
IMARPE
MCM DEAT, So. Africa
PSU, Thailand
UNIABDN, Scotland
UNIABDN

6. 6
Simple indicators
Fisheries management is not working:
• Top-down control
• Informed solely by info. from fisheries biology
• Complex, costly, largely incomprehensible
Simple indicators:
• Reflect condition of fishery
• Rely on low-cost observations
• Can be accepted and applied by stakeholders and public
• Conform to “Pressure, State, Response” framework

7. 7
“Let them spawn!”
• Indicator: Percentage of mature fish in catch
(target = 100%)
• Response: Fish ruler demarcating minimum
length for mature fish

8. 8
PSR Framework
PRESSURE
Recruitment
Overfishing
(the taking of
immature fish)
STATE
Percent mature
fish in catch
tool: fish-ruler
RESPONSE
“Let Them
Spawn!”
awareness
campaign
Tool: fish-ruler

9. 9
WP 7 Objectives
• Identify suitable indicators
• Establish parameters needed for indicators for
all relevant species/fisheries
• Test management by indicators with
stakeholders and public
• Analyze progress and problems

10. 10
WP 7 Deliverables
• Review of existing indicators and selection of
suitable, simple indicators (Month 7)
• Database to make available the parameters
needed for application of indicators (Month 13)
• Web-tool to assist in the application of indicators
(Month 19)
• Test of indicators with real-world fisheries and
stakeholders—final report (Month 34)
• The Big 5

11. 11
WP 7 Milestones
• 1st Workshop (now)
• 2nd Workshop (Month 20)

12. WP7 Meeting Outcomes

13. 13
In attendance:
Mauricio Castrejón, CDF
Vachira Lheknim, PSU
Christina Pita, UNIABDN
Graham Pierce, UNIABDN
Henn Ojaveer, MEI
Carlos Benites, IMARPE
Michael Ballón, IMARPE
Rainer Froese, IfM-GEOMAR
Amanda Stern-Pirlot, IfM-GEOMAR

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Agreed-upon criteria
Indicators should be:
1. Observable by stakeholders, either directly or
through a transparent process
2. Understandable
3. Acceptable by fishers and public at large
4. Efficient and within economic resources for
research on a sustained basis
5. Related to management and have responding
management measures (PSR framework)
6. Valid—e.g. accurately reflecting the state of the
resource

15. 15
Selected Indicators:
Indicator Required Data Possible responses
1
% of mature fish in catch
(goal 100%)
Mean length in pop. or mixed
fishery
Lm (also eventually length
where 90-100% are mature)
length frequency of catch
Promote capture of
mature fish
through Fish ruler
and info sheet for
fish traders
2
% of ‘optimum’ size in catch
(goal 100%)
Length-frequencies from catch
or surveys
Length-weight relationship for
species
Same as above
3
% “mega spawners” in catch
(% size above optimum
length plus 10%) (goal 0%)
Mean max. length in pop or
mixed fishery
Length-frequencies from catch
and surveys
MPAs
Campaign “Let
Megaspawners live”
Only catch cohorts
after 1st and before 2nd
spawning
4
% Bycatch in total catch
Possibly “charismatic” spp.
in bycatch
Bycatch biomass by fishery
Awareness/
“propaganda”
campaign

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Probable target fisheries:
Galapagos: Lobsters, Sea Cucumbers
Peru Hake, Lumptail Searobin, Peruvian
Rock Seabass, Peruvian Banded
Croaker
Scotland Haddock, Whiting, Nephrops,
Squid,
Some Portuguese species?
Thailand Prawns, some fish
Nicaragua Littoral demersals, Lobsters?
Baltic Maybe Zander, Perch, Herring?

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Next Steps:
• Each member to assemble data necessary to
apply indicators to his/her fisheries for web
portal
(L-F, maturity, bycatch)
Deadline: Month 13 (Next March/April)
• Start thinking about response implementation
• Keep in touch with other WPs re their
indicators—can we draw correlations?

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General Remarks
Easy part is first: The harder part is in implementation–
most of the concerns among WP members and others
concerned approaches to using indicators in mgmt.
We will mostly collaborate with other WP indicator-
related objectives in relation to and combination with
our selected indicators and overfishing– we’re not an
indicator clearinghouse.