How can stakeholders be included in an ecosystem-based approach to management?
In addition to ethnic, cultural and environmental drivers, the social and economic structure of Alaska’s fisheries and fishery-dependent communities have evolved to their present form, partly in response to the various single species management regimes that have governed access to fishery resources. While the social and economic attributes of open access, limited entry, spatial use rights, and IFQ and pooled quota share managed fisheries have been studied extensively, the design of regulatory structures to support EBFM and the likely social and economic impacts the transition to and implementation of EBFM have not been well-explored. There is a need for research to examine the magnitude and distribution of costs and benefits under alternative EBFM management structures; to anticipate how EBFM might affect net benefits to fishermen, crew, processors, wholesalers, etc.; to anticipate how EBFM might impact direct, indirect, and induced benefits (costs) to communities and industry sectors;
