Three Working Groups were established by APFIC for capture fishery data collection, food safety from fish products and rural aquaculture.
Some have argued that the creation of fisheries closures will make fisheries management harder, because the underlying dynamics of fisher behavior and opportunities for fisheries-dependent data collection will be altered [74].
Elizabeth Havice, a political economist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who is not an author, calls the classification "a very useful idea conceptually because it draws attention to often invisible connections between 'capture' and 'culture' fisheries," although she thinks data collection could be a significant challenge.
The principal responsibility for fisheries, agriculture and forestry data collection and analysis lies with the Ministry of Fisheries, Agriculture and Marine Resources MOFAMRR).
This paper presents the design of an integrated sample survey system in Greece for the collection of multiple fisheries data, required for fisheries management.
Our case study of the Foveaux Strait dredge oyster fishery in New Zealand shows LEK can also make a significant contribution to the management of data-rich fisheries, but highlights the importance of appropriate data collection design and interpretation and presentation of LEK.
To help cut data collection costs, NOAA has identified twofers, such as having fisheries research vessels also collect data used in creating navigation charts.
"They have significantly strengthened fisheries management," Mr. Knigge said, pointing to the increased funding for data collection, control and enforcement.
These challenges include a lack of resources directed toward data collection, the distant and dispersed nature of the fisheries [22], [23], disparities among data sources, limited data availability in some areas, and a scarcity of spatial information.
These findings fill a fundamentally important gap in our knowledge of the ecosystem effects of artisanal fisheries in developing nations, and provide support for multiple approaches to data collection where they are commonly unavailable.
Strengthening local organizations, rebuilding fisheries through local co-management plans, securing access rights, involving fishers in data collection and analysis, developing complementary livelihoods and addressing the broad socio-economic rights of communities were identified as necessary to address vulnerabilities.
