Authors

Heather Welch, Elliott Hazen, and Kylie Scales

Description

EcoCast is a real-time data tool to help fishers and managers allocate fishing effort to optimize the harvest of target fish while minimizing bycatch of protected species. The EcoCast Map product combines the predicted distributions of target catch species and bycatch species into a single map that suggests better and poorer locations to fish off the US West Coast. The repository linked is to operationalize the tool.

References

• Welch, H., Hazen, E. L., Bograd, S. J., Jacox, M. G., Brodie, S., Robinson, D., Scales, K. L., Dewitt, L., & Lewison, R. (2018). Practical considerations for operationalizing dynamic management tools. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(2), 459–469. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13281
• Welch, H., Brodie, S., Jacox, M. G., Bograd, S. J., & Hazen, E. L. (2019). Decision‐support tools for dynamic management. Conservation Biology, 34(3), 589–599. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13417
• Welch, H., Brodie, S., Jacox, M. G., Robinson, D., Wilson, C., Bograd, S. J., Oliver, M. J., & Hazen, E. L. (2020). Considerations for transferring an operational dynamic ocean management tool between ocean color products. Remote Sensing of Environment, 242, 111753. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111753

Citation

Hazen, E. L., Scales, K. L., Maxwell, S. M., Briscoe, D. K., Welch, H., Bograd, S. J., Bailey, H., Benson, S. R., Eguchi, T., Dewar, H., Kohin, S., Costa, D. P., Crowder, L. B., & Lewison, R. L. (2018). A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries. Science Advances, 4(5). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar3001

Keywords

• Bycatch
• Decision Support Tool
• Marine Mammals
• North Pacific
• Web App

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