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Temporarily closing fisheries during breeding or spawning seasons. Conservation Benefits: Protects vulnerable life stages, ensures reproduction success, and contributes to stock replenishment.

EBM considers the interconnections within an ecosystem, including humans, rather than focusing on a single species, habitat, or issue. Conservation Benefits: Preserves full ecosystems, maintains ecological balance, and ensures long-term viability of fisheries.

A partnership between fishery managers and stakeholders to share responsibility and authority for sustainable management. Conservation Benefits: Promotes community engagement, improves compliance, and adapts to local ecological conditions.

MPAs are regions of the ocean where human activity is restricted to conserve the natural environment. Conservation Benefits: Safeguards biodiversity, replenishes fish stocks, and allows marine ecosystems to recover and thrive.

Developing and using fishing gear designed to target specific species and sizes. Conservation Benefits: Reduces bycatch, minimizes habitat impact, and allows non-target species to thrive.

Efforts to locate and remove lost or discarded fishing gear from marine environments. Conservation Benefits: Reduces habitat damage, prevents unintentional wildlife capture, and decreases marine pollution.

Limits set on the amount of fish that can be caught over a specific period. Conservation Benefits: Controls fishing rates, prevents overexploitation, and helps maintain fish populations at sustainable levels.

Regulations that dictate the minimum and/or maximum size of fish that can be legally harvested. Conservation Benefits: Allows fish to reach reproductive maturity, reduces juvenile fish catch, and promotes sustainable stock levels.

Strategies for recovering fish populations that are below sustainable levels. Conservation Benefits: Aims to restore depleted stocks, ensures long-term fishery productivity, and stabilizes marine ecosystems.

Prohibition of trawling, a method that drags fishing nets along the sea floor. Conservation Benefits: Protects bottom habitats, reduces bycatch, and maintains the integrity of marine ecosystems.

A system where individual or groups are allotted a percentage of the total allowed catch for a fishery. Conservation Benefits: Encourages sustainable fishing practices, prevents overfishing, and promotes accountability.

Tools and techniques designed to minimize the capture of non-target species during fishing. Conservation Benefits: Reduces ecological damage, saves endangered species, and improves target catch efficiency.

Regulations on the type of fishing gear used, aiming to reduce environmental impact. Conservation Benefits: Limits habitat destruction, decreases bycatch, and ensures selective fishing practices.

Actions to repair and enhance marine environments that have been damaged or degraded. Conservation Benefits: Supports a diverse range of marine species, promotes healthy fish populations, and sustains fishery resources.

Using satellite technology to monitor fishing activities and detect illegal practices. Conservation Benefits: Enhances enforcement of regulations, deters illegal fishing, and enables real-time management.

Involving fishers and other stakeholders in fishery research and data collection. Conservation Benefits: Increases scientific knowledge, fosters stakeholder ownership, and informs effective management.

Digital tools and platforms for recording and submitting fishery catch data. Conservation Benefits: Ensures accuracy of data, supports sustainable quota management, and aids in monitoring compliance.

A system where allocated catch limits can be bought, sold, or leased among fishers. Conservation Benefits: Promotes market-driven conservation efforts, incentivizes individual compliance, and allows efficient use of resources.

Certifying and labeling fishery products based on sustainability criteria to inform consumer choices. Conservation Benefits: Drives demand for sustainable fisheries, promotes environmentally responsible fishing, and increases market access for sustainable products.