Enhanced Status Report (ESR)

A revised approach to Status of the Fisheries Reports. ESRs are proposed to have sections on the history and socioeconomics of the fishery, the biology and status of target stocks, ecosystem aspects of the fishery, past and current conservation and management measures, essential fisheries information, monitoring and future research and management needs. This revised format would help ensure a basic standard of MLMA-based management is applied across all fisheries in a consistent and transparent fashion. It would summarize all the available essential fisheries information for each fishery and make it readily apparent what is not available. This structure is envisioned to assist the Department in planning both short and long-term research activities and inform external parties about research opportunities that may benefit management through a dynamic web-based platform.