The Ocean Foundation (TOF) and UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have launched a new website in support of sustainable fisheries management around the world. HarvestStrategies.org provides a clearinghouse of the latest information on the development and implementation of harvest strategies, also known as management procedures.

The question of how many fish should be taken in a fishery has been challenging scientists, decision-makers and stakeholders for decades. Harvest strategies, where management measures, such as catch limits, are based on real time environmental and human-impact indicators, can answer this important question.

These strategies have been implemented in some of the most important fisheries in the world. Yet, as a scientifically rigorous process, developing harvest strategies requires knowledge in theory, tools, and resources that can be challenging for even experts to digest.

This is where HarvestStrategies.org comes in. Developed jointly by TOF’s International Fisheries Conservation project and FAO’s Common Oceans Tuna Project, it is a groundbreaking knowledge hub that can help scientists, fisheries managers and other stakeholders make sense of this essential and quickly emerging topic for sustainable fisheries.

The website is part of a suite of communications products to be undertaken under a new five-year partnership as part the Common Oceans Tuna project. This collaboration will include the participation of the five regional fishery management organizations for tuna (tRFMOs), as well as the industry-affiliated International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF), to leverage this valuable new resource for developing, advocating for, and implementing harvest strategies for fisheries around the world.