Begrenzung des Fischereiaufwandes oder Erhöhung der Mindestmaschenöffnung – Ein Vergleich der Alternativen bei der Dorschfischerei in der Ostsee

• Main Author: Bethke, Eckhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Management; Fisheries; modelling; sustainable fishery; Gadus morhua; stock management; recruitment; technical measures; Baltic Sea; cod
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1834/20735; https://doi.org/10.3220/Infn53_13-22_2006

The basis for a long-term profitable fishery is a precautionary and environment-compatible use of fish stocks. The fishery management presently models the exploitation through the parameters of fishing mortality and the age at first capture. These two parameters are translated into the technical measures of fishing effort and mesh openings and quotas, which are then used in practice for controlling the fishery. Stock protection can be achieved by reducing the fishing effort, by assigning smaller quotas, by reducing the number of days at sea, or by increasing the mesh opening. The respective protection measures have different effects on the development of the stocks but also on the revenue obtained by the fishery. These alternatives have been examined taking as an example the cod stock in the western Baltic. The optimization goal was the maximization of profit observing at the same time the prerequisites for stock protection according to the precaution approach. For these calculations the same models and data have been used as are beeing used in the stock management of the ACFM of ICES. The response of altered technical measures to the recruitment of cod stock was considered, and a proposal to overcome overfishing of cod in the western Baltic Sea was derived. Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries began publishing the Informationen aus der Fischereiforschung - Information Fishery Research in 2010. Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, Institut für Seefischerei