How robust and resilient are alternative management strategies under varying environmental and ecological conditions?
This is an avenue of research that has not yet been well-examined in the context of current regulatory structures, let alone in the context of EBFM. Research topics that could be explored include questions about whether entitlement and tenure-based management regimes increase or decrease the resilience of social and economic institutions when the abundance, value, and distribution of target and non-target species vary in response to changes in the biophysical system. Included within this area of research are questions about how spatial and temporal dimensions of fishing effort respond to changes in relative abundance or relative value of target species, incidental catches of bycatch species, and changes in the relative abundance of species that might compete for target or incidental catches of overlapping or non-overlapping size-classes of the same species (e.g., sea birds, marine mammals, sharks).
