Fisheries Performance Assessment Toolkit
Introduction
Welcome to the Fisheries Performance Assessment Toolkit (FPAT)
FPAT includes two tools: the Fisheries Performance Indicators: a tool designed to determine how fisheries management systems are performing in order to achieve community, economic, and ecological sustainability, and openMSE: an open-source framework for evaluating the performance of alternative modes of management for a fishery.
The FPAT process uses the two tools for several purposes:
Characterize the current state of the fishery using the Fishery Performance Indicators;
Compare the FPI scores to baselines from other fisheries and regions;
Evaluate the expected performance of alternative management approaches with respect to fishery management objectives;
Implement changes to management and other interventions and use the FPIs to quantitatively evaluate the fishery improvements.