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Setting objectives for evaluating management adaptation actions to address climate change impacts in south-eastern Australian fisheries
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Jennings, S and Pascoe, S and Hall-Aspland, S and Le Bouhellec, B and Norman-Lopez, A and Sullivan, A and Pecl, G, Setting objectives for evaluating management adaptation actions to address climate change impacts in south-eastern Australian fisheries, Fisheries Oceanography, 25, (suppl 1) pp. 29-44. ISSN 1054-6006 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Under likely climate change scenarios, changes to fisheries assessment, monitoring, management and governance, intended to reduce negative impacts and seize opportunities to improve performance, will form an important part of climate change adaptation responses for fisheries. Comprehensively and consistently assessing possible management adaptation options requires a clear definition of a multi-criteria evaluation framework incorporating information about the relative importance of often competing criteria or objectives. Such a framework is often missing from climate change adaptation evaluation, with adaptation priorities and plans often developed without direct reference to the key objectives of management. We used the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to develop a weighted hierarchy of objectives in four south-eastern Australian fisheries. The developed hierarchy included fisheries management objectives routinely articulated in policy and management documents, those that may underpin effective adaptation and adaptation planning, and objectives likely to contribute to ongoing adaptive capacity and resilience of fisheries and associated communities. Results of an interactive survey of managers, researchers and commercial and recreational fishers yielded average weightings of objectives that were quite consistent across the four fisheries, with a very strong preference for ensuring that adaptations support environmental and ecological values, particularly through sustaining the harvested population. However, differences between stakeholder groups were more marked, with economic objectives considered more important by commercial fishers, and social objectives by recreational fishers, than by other groups. This suggests the possibility of conflicts between groups when determining appropriate adaptation strategies, as alternative strategies will have different economic and social outcomes even if achieving comparable environmental outcomes.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Analytic Hierarchy Process, climate change adaptation, fisheries, management objectives, stakeholders |
Research Division: | Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences |
Research Group: | Fisheries sciences |
Research Field: | Fisheries sciences not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Animal Production and Animal Primary Products |
Objective Group: | Fisheries - wild caught |
Objective Field: | Fisheries - wild caught not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Jennings, S (Dr Sarah Jennings) |
UTAS Author: | Pascoe, S (Dr Sean Pascoe) |
UTAS Author: | Hall-Aspland, S (Ms Sophie Hall-Aspland) |
UTAS Author: | Pecl, G (Professor Gretta Pecl) |
ID Code: | 108498 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 21 |
Deposited By: | Fisheries and Aquaculture |
Deposited On: | 2016-04-20 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-03 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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