Towards a precautionary approach to managing Canada's commercial harp seal hunt
<qd> Leaper, R., Lavigne, D. M., Corkeron, P., and Johnston, D. W. 2010. Towards a precautionary approach to managing Canada's commercial harp seal hunt. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 316–320. </qd>The Canadian government's approach to the management of its commercial h...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:icesjms:67/2/316 2023-05-15T16:33:41+02:00 Towards a precautionary approach to managing Canada's commercial harp seal hunt Leaper, Russell Lavigne, David M. Corkeron, Peter Johnston, David W. 2010-03-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/67/2/316 https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp232 en eng Oxford University Press http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/67/2/316 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp232 Copyright (C) 2010, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer Short Communication TEXT 2010 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp232 2010-02-28T08:04:38Z <qd> Leaper, R., Lavigne, D. M., Corkeron, P., and Johnston, D. W. 2010. Towards a precautionary approach to managing Canada's commercial harp seal hunt. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 316–320. </qd>The Canadian government's approach to the management of its commercial harp seal hunt is compared with other precautionary approaches developed for setting anthropogenic removal limits for marine mammal populations. For Canada's harp seal hunt, the current management strategy has not been fully specified or tested, and its robustness to changes in biological parameters, uncertainty in input data and environmental variability, remains unknown. As such, the management approach cannot be considered precautionary and there is a substantial, but not quantified, probability that it will not meet its objectives. There is an urgent need for a fully specified and rigorously tested management procedure, and steps towards this are suggested that should reduce the risks associated with the current approach. Text Harp Seal HighWire Press (Stanford University) ICES Journal of Marine Science 67 2 316 320 |
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<qd> Leaper, R., Lavigne, D. M., Corkeron, P., and Johnston, D. W. 2010. Towards a precautionary approach to managing Canada's commercial harp seal hunt. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 316–320. </qd>The Canadian government's approach to the management of its commercial harp seal hunt is compared with other precautionary approaches developed for setting anthropogenic removal limits for marine mammal populations. For Canada's harp seal hunt, the current management strategy has not been fully specified or tested, and its robustness to changes in biological parameters, uncertainty in input data and environmental variability, remains unknown. As such, the management approach cannot be considered precautionary and there is a substantial, but not quantified, probability that it will not meet its objectives. There is an urgent need for a fully specified and rigorously tested management procedure, and steps towards this are suggested that should reduce the risks associated with the current approach. |
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