Abstract
Adaptive management directly addresses uncertainty and risk. It implicitly and explicitly aims to increase knowledge. However, its practical, as opposed to theoretical, application in fisheries has been limited. Some reasons for this are discussed. They include a lack of understanding of the methodology, unwillingness to risk livelihoods, unwillingness to be in a non-optimal fishing situation, and the high economic and social costs of adaptive management. Adaptive management policies may range from a passive approach where a system’s response to a policy is monitored, to an actively experimental approach where policies are designed to probe and produce definitive feedback information. It is the latter which is commonly associated with adaptive management. Adaptive management is a very valuable and useful methodological approach as it can provide a framework for all other fisheries methods. Attempts should be made to make it more accessible.
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