1.0. Introduction: 1.1. Background to the fishery -- 1.2. History of decision rules -- 1.3. Current intiatives -- 1.4. Taking account of uncertainty -- 1.5. Indicators, reference values and performance. -- 2.0. Managment objectives: 2.1. Sustainability objective -- 2.2. Economic objective. -- 3.0. Indicators: 3.1. Egg production measures -- 3.2. Harvest rate measures. -- 4.0. Reference values: 4.1. Egg production -- 4.2. Harvest rate. -- 5.0. Performance : 5.1. Egg production -- 5.2. Harvest rates. -- 6.0. Decision rules framework: 6.1. Management guidelines -- 6.2. Proposed guidelines for decision rules. -- 7.0. Future directions: 7.1. Bio-economic modelling -- 7.2. Stock assessment model improvements -- 7.3. Stock and recruitment relationship and environment effects -- 7.3. Integrated fisheries management: recreational sector. -- 8.0. References. -- 9.0. Appendices
Summary
This paper is designed to encourage public involvement in making changes to harvest strategy and decision rules that are used for the management of the west coast rock lobster resource
