Critically assessing stock enhancement: an introduction to the mote symposium

摘要

Stock enhancement represents a potential component of an economically viable and ecologically sound management strategy for many marine fisheries in danger of collapse. Stock enhancement is appealing because of its straightforward logic: by raising large Numbers of larvae or juveniles and then releasing them into the marine environment, we Can compensate for the enormous natural mortality in these stages and thereby increase The stock size in the late juvenile and early adult stages of the life cycle, which in turn will Compensate for the fishing mortality that depleted the stock.