The National Marine Fish/about/case-study/nmfseries Service’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center is using DLMtool to review data-limited methods and their application to tropical reef fish in the U.S. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, while the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council has used the Toolkit to inform management of black sea bass, blueline tilefish, and mackerel.
In collaboration with the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO), the DLMtool team has created a four-day workshop series to provide support to managers of tuna stocks inhabiting areas beyond national jurisdictions (high seas fisheries).
The California Department of Fish & Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the University of British Columbia are customizing DLMtool for California state-managed marine fisheries. The goal is to demonstrate the Toolkit’s utility through application to four fisheries: barred sand bass, CA halibut, sea cucumber, and red sea urchin, with the prospect of broad adoption to other state-managed fisheries in the years to come.
The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is using the DLMtool to increase the efficiency, transparency, and robustness of its catch advice for British Columbia groundfish.
The DLMtool team is working with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to develop and test a standardized approach to using MSE to guide proponents of seafood certification projects toward data-limited management strategies that can satisfy the MSC certification standard for sustainable stock status and rebuilding.