![Fishermen in Sri Lanka returning from a three-week trip pull yellowfin tuna and swordfish from their icy holds to sell to middlemen.](https://environment.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/sri-lanka_yellowfin-tuna-375x281.jpg)
Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Chris Anderson and a team of scientists have developed a new assessment that looks at fisheries’ economic and community benefits, as well as ecological health. Anderson and his team created new ways of measuring three performance indicators – ecology, economics, and community – all of which can be applied across species, management approaches, and nations. To characterize a fishery, the authors drew on local experts’ knowledge, scoring each response and averaging them in each category. The result is a new set of Fishery Performance Indicators that are the most comprehensive, global tool considering social factors in addition to the more traditional biological measures when gauging a fishery’s health.
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