Testing the ecosystem service cascade framework for Atlantic salmon

• Main Authors: Worthington, Thomas A., Worthington, Ian, Vaughan, Ian P., Ormerod, Steve J., Durance, Isabelle
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041620301388

Aligning nature protection with human well-being for the UN Sustainable Development Goals implies that conservation monitoring should indicate the sustainability of ecosystem services (ES). Here we test the value of the ES cascade framework using national, multi-decadal data for an iconic freshwater fish, the Atlantic salmon Salmo salar. For the first time, we assemble all long-term monitoring data for England and Wales along the ES cascade for this species from resource to benefit: juvenile density to measure the biological resource, returning adult numbers to measure potential ES use, and rod catches and angling effort as measures of actual ES use. We aimed to understand how the ES cascade framework reconciled conservation with ES sustainability targets. Angling effort; Atlantic salmon; Cultural ecosystem services; Juvenile density; Rod catches; Environmental policy;