Key Resources
FishKit Coastal Fisheries Science and Management Handbook
This handbook provides a practical guide for learning about core fisheries science and management concepts. It includes clear modules and sections on FishKit tools, it supports community‑led, data‑driven decisions to sustain marine resources.
Science and Technical Documentation
FishKit Science Summary
Learn about the science behind the FishKit Tools in this short summary.
Technical Documentation
Explore the full technical documentation of all scientific methods and workings behind the FishKit tools.
Scoring Life History Parameter Quality
This guidance document provides an overview of how to explore and score uncertainty in life history parameters.
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.
Additional Fisheries Management Process Resources
Data Cleaning and Exploration Process Overview
This process contains steps for inventorying data, identifying outliers and cleaning data, as well as conducting basic explorations.
Example Fisheries Management Plan (FMP) Template
This example fisheries management plan (FMP) provides a template that can be tailored to unique fishery contexts.
Training others in FishKit
"Train the Trainers" Key Resources
This list of resources is designed to be used by those delivering FishKit trainings. These materials may be tailored and incorporated into trainings as appropriate.
"Train the Trainers" Overview
This covers the basic concepts of expanding the use of FishKit through a “Train the Trainers” model, and an overview of FishKit.
Sample FishKit Workshop Agenda
An example agenda for training and use of FishKit that may be adapted to meet each unique context.