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Fisheries Management

Fisheries management is the integrated process of regulating and conserving fish and other aquatic populations to sustain their ecological viability while supporting human uses such as food production, livelihoods, and recreation. It combines biological assessment of stock status, reproduction, and mortality with th…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 5× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2691-6622 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Fisheries management is the integrated process of regulating and conserving fish and other aquatic populations to sustain their ecological viability while supporting human uses such as food production, livelihoods, and recreation. It combines biological assessment of stock status, reproduction, and mortality with the design and enforcement of controls on fishing effort, catch limits, gear, seasons, and protected areas. Effective management increasingly adopts an ecosystem-based approach, which considers not only target species but also their prey, predators, habitats, and the wider food web, recognizing that harvesting one population affects others. This is illustrated by ecosystem-based management of Antarctic krill, where harvest strategies must account for the needs of dependent predators such as baleen whales and adapt to potential climate-change effects. Management also addresses the diverse pressures that degrade fish populations, including habitat alteration, pollution, and environmental change, as seen in efforts to understand factors adversely affecting wild salmon in river systems. In aquaculture and inland fisheries, management extends to the obstacles facing fish culture and to optimizing growth and feed efficiency in farmed species. Sound fisheries management relies on monitoring data, adaptive decision-making, and stakeholder cooperation, often spanning jurisdictions and requiring regulatory and cooperative arrangements. Its overarching aim is to balance exploitation with conservation so that aquatic resources remain productive and resilient over the long term.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 5 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Aquaculture Research and Development (ISSN 2691-6622).

Journal editorial board
Mariana Hinzmann · Portugal Miklas Scholz · United Kingdom

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