Key Resources
Developed by The Nature Conservancy’s FishKit team, this handbook is a practical guide for coastal communities and practitioners working to sustain small-scale fisheries. It introduces key concepts in fisheries science and management, blending traditional knowledge with modern tools to support data-driven, community-led decision-making. With accessible modules, visual aids, and interactive tools like the FishKit platform, the handbook empowers users to assess fishery health, design effective management strategies, and ensure long-term sustainability of marine resources.
Quick Start Guides
Stock Health Tracker
This quick start guide will walk you through the basic steps to get started evaluating length data with the FishKit Stock Health Tracker. The Stock Health Tracker leans on the power of length data to provide simple metrics, proven to be indicative of fishery health.
Size Limit Builder
This quick start guide will take you through the basic steps to get started creating size limit options with the FishKit Size Limit Builder. The Size Limit Builder can help users to evaluate tradeoffs between sustainability and catch associated with different size limit options
Entering a Life History
This guide will walk through the steps to enter a life history in the FishKit Data Repository, which allows you to use your life history for analysis in the Size Limit Builder and Stock Health Tracker.
Length Based Spawning Potential Ratio
(LBSPR)
This quick start guide will walk you through the steps to run a Length-Based Spawning Potential Ratio (LBSPR) analysis within the FishKit Stock Health Tracker.
Educational Materials
Spatial Management for the Pacific
These are resources designed to provide general guidance on implementing spatial management for fisheries in the Pacific. The four slide decks summarize best practices and design principles to aid communities as they design spatial management strategies to enhance and maintain coral reef fisheries.
Fisheries Science Learning Modules
These are resources designed to teach the concepts of YPR (yield-per-recruit) and SPR (spawning potential ratio) and their applications to fishery management. The goal of this module is to provide an overview of the general concepts of YPR and SPR and how they can be used in fishery management. It is not designed to be an exhaustive description of YPR and SPR. Rather, it is aimed at audiences who lack formal fisheries science training, but are interested in better understanding the complicated fisheries concepts of YPR and SPR.
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