Management Science in Fisheries by Charles T.T. Edwards, Doro... - 9781138364202

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Management Science in FisheriesAn introduction to simulation-based methods\nAuthor(s): Charles T.T. Edwards, Dorothy J. Dankel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138364202, 978-1138364202\nSynopsis\nA key goal of fisheries management is to regulate extractive pressure on a resource so as to ensure social, economic and ecological sustainability. This text provides an accessible entry point for students and professionals to management science as developed in fisheries, in order to facilitate uptake of the latest ideas and methods. \n\nTraditional management approaches have relied upon a stock assessment based on existing understanding of resource status and dynamics, and a prediction of the likely future response to a static management proposal. However all such predictions include an inherent degree of uncertainty, and the last few decades have seen the emergence of an adaptive approach that uses feedback control t.