Evaluation of management systems for KSn fisheries and potential application to British Columbia's inshore rockfish fishery

Some fisheries target marine organisms that are benthic, late to mature, long-lived, sedentary, and those structured as geographically-isolated sub-populations which together form a larger metapopulation. In this study, such fisheries were defined as KSn fisheries. The life-history and spatial characteristics of species targeted in KSn fisheries leave them particularly susceptible to management and stock assessment challenges, resulting in a higher risk of overfishing and localized depletion. The inshore rockfish fishery in British Columbia, Canada, is a specific example of a KSn fishery. 13 KSn fisheries were examined in the context of a conceptual framework to determine methods of fishery sustainability/success, and through this management advice was provided for the inshore rockfish fishery. It was determined that the implementation of a territorial use rights fishery (TURF), an exclusive form of resource access, worked to increase fisher incentive for resource sustainability, the major obstacle to success in the inshore rockfish fishery.