Abstract

Many contemporary fisheries management issues concentrate on controlling, and often reducing, effort. However, there exist those examples where the acceptable biological catch of a recreationally and commercially important species is not harvested annually, with this trend occasionally persisting for several years. Concurrently, the allocation of the accepta-ble biological catch between recreational and commercial fishing sectors can often prove contentious, regardless of whether the combined harvest of a species from both sectors reaches the acceptable biological catch. Reallocation between fishing sectors may be requested of resource managers when there exists foregone yield in a fishery, especially if one sector is catching its portion of the acceptable biological catch while another is not. We explore new methods of sharing allocation between fishing sectors when foregone yield may exist in a fishery. These methods prevent overfishing from occurring while simultaneously increasing fishing opportunities on a year-to-year basis.

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