Fisheries Management

What is fisheries management? It’s the science of balancing the needs of aquatic animals with the changing state of the environment in order to establish an equilibrium that provides healthy fish, healthy habitat, healthy economics and healthy people.

How is it accomplished? State and Federal biologists use a cooperative, interdisciplinary approach to monitor and evaluate the status of fisheries and their habitat, identify concerns, and, when required, take actions to restore and conserve the resource.

Since many of these concerns come from the pressures and demands of a growing human population, it is important that fisheries management solutions consider the human dimension.

What does it look like? Examples of fisheries management activities are described below. It is just a convenience for fisheries biologists to categorize these activities by fish species. In reality, many of these activities overlap such that what is done to address the concerns for one species helps to conserve another. In this respect, fisheries management as a whole is essentially the same as ecosystem management.

Daily Fish Counts Historic Fish Counts Atlantic Salmon Management American Shad Management Shortnose Sturgeon Recovery Sea Lamprey Management River Herring Management American Eel Management Striped Bass Management Contaminants Assessment

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