Ding Qi, Shan Xiujuan, Jin Xianshi, Gorfine Harry, Sun Jiting
Key Laboratory of Sustainable Development of Marine Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Fishery Resources and Ecological Environment, Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Qingdao, 266071 China.
National Observation and Research Station for Fishery Resources in Changdao, Yantai, 265800 China.
Mar Life Sci Technol. 2024 Oct 2;6(4):713-721. doi: 10.1007/s42995-024-00251-z. eCollection 2024 Nov.
Fisheries are social-ecological systems. Evaluating the sustainability of fisheries requires methods to measure performance from ecological, economic, social, and governance aspects. Whereas a number of multi-dimensional evaluation tools such as fishery performance indicators (FPIs) have been used for assessing fishery management systems, fishery management practices and data availability are likely to differ substantially among fisheries in different countries. This makes it at least somewhat problematic to precisely adapt this methodology to fisheries within a given country. This study constructed a practical tool to evaluate and compare fishery systems in China. On the basis of an established indicator library and the FPIs tool, indicators in the newly developed tool for comprehensive fisheries evaluation were selected according to the management objectives, data availability, and the authority of relevant indicators. The sustainability assessment tool for Chinese fisheries (SAT-fish) provides a three-tier hierarchical framework covering 60 indicators, of which 48 indicators were extracted from the FPIs tool and 12 indicators were associated with policy statements. Applicability and comprehensiveness of this tool in comparison with six other well-established frameworks were investigated. This tool offers a promising new method to assess the sustainability of fishery systems in China, with great potential to guide Chinese fisheries towards a higher level of sustainability.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s42995-024-00251-z.
渔业是社会生态系统。评估渔业的可持续性需要从生态、经济、社会和治理等方面衡量绩效的方法。虽然已经使用了一些多维评估工具，如渔业绩效指标（FPI）来评估渔业管理系统，但不同国家的渔业管理实践和数据可用性可能存在很大差异。这使得将这种方法精确地应用于特定国家的渔业至少存在一定问题。本研究构建了一个实用工具来评估和比较中国的渔业系统。在已建立的指标库和FPI工具的基础上，根据管理目标、数据可用性和相关指标的权威性，选择了新开发的综合渔业评估工具中的指标。中国渔业可持续性评估工具（SAT-fish）提供了一个涵盖60个指标的三层层次框架，其中48个指标从FPI工具中提取，12个指标与政策声明相关。研究了该工具与其他六个成熟框架相比的适用性和全面性。该工具为评估中国渔业系统的可持续性提供了一种有前景的新方法，具有引导中国渔业实现更高水平可持续性的巨大潜力。
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