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2018 Master Plan for Fisheries: a Guide for Implementing the Marine 2018 Master Plan for Fisheries A Guide for Implementation of the Marine Life Management Act June 2018 State of California The Natural Resources Agency Department of Fish and Wildlife Acknowledgements The Marine Life Management Act (Appendix A) emphasizes the importance of stakeholder engagement in all areas of management, including the development and revision of the Master Plan. The Department thanks and acknowledges Tribes and tribal communities, and stakeholders for the thoughtful input that has been provided in a range of venues and formats throughout the two-year development of this 2018 Master Plan. The Department also appreciates the generous funding from the Ocean Protection Council and the Resources Legacy Fund, and the numerous partners who provided background material and tools for consideration as part of the preparation of the 2018 Master Plan. See Appendix B for a complete list of these partnerships and engagement efforts. Executive summary The Marine Life Management Act (MLMA) is California’s primary fisheries management law. It directs the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (Department) to develop a Master Plan to guide its implementation. The original Master Plan, adopted in 2001, is being updated to reflect new priorities and emerging management strategies for achieving the MLMA’s goals, and to better describe the Department’s inclusion of MLMA principles in management decisions. The 2018 Master Plan (Master Plan) replaces the original and is re-structured to better meet the specific management objectives identified in the MLMA. It is intended to be both a roadmap and a toolbox for implementation, providing guidance and direction in the following areas: Prioritization of management efforts The Master Plan includes an interim list of prioritized species for management action based on the results of a Productivity and Susceptibility Analysis (PSA). It also describes a more comprehensive approach to prioritization within a framework for MLMA-based management (framework) that includes an assessment of the risks fishing poses to a given stock and to the ecosystem, the extent to which current management is addressing those risks, and the socioeconomic and community opportunities. The goal is to allow the Department to focus limited management resources on the fisheries with the greatest need and opportunities for resource and ecosystem benefits to the state of California. Meeting stock sustainability objectives The MLMA identifies the sustainability of fish stocks and the fisheries that depend on them as its primary fishery management goal as stated in Fish and Game Code Section (§) 7056. There are new tools and approaches available to help consider and identify the most appropriate management strategies for achieving sustainability. Even when limited information is available, it is possible to be explicit about potential benefits and costs of different management strategies. The Master Plan identifies some of these approaches and provides guidance regarding their use. Meeting ecosystem objectives The MLMA also emphasizes the importance of conserving the health of marine ecosystems (§7050(b)(1)), and specifically, the need to consider impacts to habitat and bycatch species when prioritizing and managing fisheries (§7056(b) and §7085). The Master Plan provides a step-wise approach to consider and address these issues. Integrating Marine Protected Areas into fisheries management California has an extensive network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) that affect fisheries management and stakeholders. Accounting for these MPAs when considering how to meet stock and ecosystem-related objectives is a key aspect of MLMA implementation. If successful, integration of the MPA network into fisheries management is expected to provide significant benefits to fisheries and resources alike. Adapting to climate change The effects of climate change can pose challenges to fisheries management and underscore the need for adaptive and responsive management that can adjust to changing species distribution and abundance, habitat alteration, and impacts to port infrastructure. Targeted research, consideration of multiple indicators, and collaborations with stakeholders can help to make management better able to adapt to these shifts. Climate change considerations factor into species prioritization, scaled management, identification of appropriate management strategies, adaptive management structures, and understanding the effects of management on fishery economics and communities. 2018 Master Plan for Fisheries Executive Summary i Engaging stakeholders Engaging the public in management, research, and decision-making is a central tenet of the MLMA. Ensuring that engagement is meaningful, cost-effective, and leads to well-supported management requires strategies for tailoring efforts to the needs of specific situations. The Master Plan provides guidance on considering and crafting potential engagements. Collaborating with partners California is home to a diverse suite of academic and research institutions, Tribes and tribal communities, engaged stakeholders, cooperating agencies, and a range of supplemental public and private funding sources. Well-designed collaborations can be an important means of increasing the Department’s limited capacity and allowing for enhanced management. The Master Plan seeks to identify a range of areas where collaboration may be beneficial and the conditions necessary to ensure collaborations can achieve their objectives. Advancing socioeconomic and community objectives The MLMA has sustainability as its primary goal, but it also seeks to promote healthy fisheries (§7056). Understanding the range of stakeholders’ economic and community interests is critical to identifying opportunities to enhance profitability during prioritization and create management measures that have the support of those affected. The Master Plan describes key socioeconomic questions and identifies strategies for obtaining related information as part of Master Plan implementation. Making management adaptive The ocean is a highly variable environment and climate change may amplify that variability. Adaptive management can help to ensure that harvest strategies reflect current population levels and ocean conditions and are able to effectively respond to future changes to the fishery or resources. Targeted data collection, strategically selected indicators, and responsive decision frameworks can help management be as adaptive and flexible as possible. The Master Plan identifies a range of structures, strategies, and recommendations for meeting the adaptive management objectives of the MLMA. Using the best available scientific information The MLMA stipulates that decisions shall be based on the best available scientific information and other relevant information (§7050(b)(6) and §7056(g)) and places significant emphasis on the role of scientific peer review in the development of Fishery Management Plans (FMPs), research protocols, and other documents that have a scientific basis (§7062(a)). The appropriate scope, scale, and timing of scientific peer review, however, needs clarification and guidance to ensure that it is carried out in a consistent way. The Master Plan identifies tiers of potential review and considerations for identifying when each may be appropriate. Enhancing and scaling Marine Life Management Act-based management The state’s fisheries vary dramatically in terms of their complexity, geographic scope, value, level of participation, and management needs. A comprehensive and complex FMP may not be appropriate for all fisheries. The ability to scale management efforts to the needs and characteristics of a specific fishery is critical to optimizing the use of management resources. While FMPs remain an important tool for achieving the objectives of the MLMA, other tools such as Enhanced Status Reports (ESRs), targeted rulemakings, and more streamlined FMPs can also be used. The Master Plan describes a continuum of management intensity and identifies criteria for determining where a given fishery may fall along the continuum. The goal is to make more efficient and effective use of available tools and resources to implement the MLMA across a wider range of California’s fisheries. 2018 Master Plan for Fisheries Executive Summary ii Ensuring the Master Plan is an effective resource and guide The MLMA emphasizes the need for transparency in management and the importance of communicating management decisions and the condition of fisheries to the public (§7056(h)). However, planning documents like the Master Plan can become outdated over time. The Master Plan describes the use of a new, online, publicly-accessible and user-friendly “living” library for California’s state-managed fisheries information and the policies and tools of the Master Plan called the California Fisheries Portal. The goal is to organize and share the considerable research and management efforts of the Department and its partners, provide management resources and tools, and implement the new strategies described in the Master Plan. 2018 Master Plan for Fisheries Executive Summary iii This page is intentionally left blank. 2018 Master Plan for Fisheries iv Table of contents Executive summary ...................................................................................................................................... i List of acronyms ........................................................................................................................................
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