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. 2021 May 29;32(1):101–121. doi: 10.1007/s11160-021-09663-x

Table 2.

Priority actions, their drivers and the multiple pathways they can support, with one example of a specific action to implement the key action, including timeframe, who will undertake the action and who will benefit

Key Actions Driver Pathways Specific actions Time frame to start action Who will do activity? Who will benefit?
Diversification of production and consumption

Ecosystem change

Influence of corporations

Output and efficiency

Consumer demand

Nutrition focus

1. Improve seafood access, availability & utilisation

3. Reduce impacts from production & consumption

Collaborative investment to increase diversity of mariculture species Short-term Seafood industry, government Consumers, industry, society
Policies to support domestic seafood sector Regulation of oceans

1. Improve seafood access, availability& utilisation

2. Sustainable management

4. Collaboration & cooperation

5. Reduced inequality

Policies/governance frameworks identifying sustainable pathways for supporting domestic fisheries and value chains supplying local markets Immediate Government, private sector Domestic seafood industry, consumers
Implementation of ecosystem-based management (EBM)

Ecosystem change

Regulation of oceans

2. Sustainable management

3. Reduce impacts from production & consumption

4. Collaboration & cooperation

Operationalise EBM and trade-off tools at national and regional scales Immediate Industry, government, research community Industry, consumers, environment
Supply chain transparency

Influence of corporations

Consumer demand

2. Sustainable management

3 Reduce impacts from production & consumption

4. Collaboration & cooperation

Wide implementation of regulations and technology to ensure supply chain transparency Short—medium Private sector, NGOs, Joint seafood industry/government initiatives Consumers, governments (through reduced enforcement requirements), environment
Cross-sectoral spatial planning

Ecosystem change

Regulation of oceans

2. Sustainable management

4. Collaboration & cooperation

5. Reduced inequality

Implementation of MSP frameworks with strategic planning across sectors Immediate Managers, supported by research community and Indigenous leaders Environment, seafood industry, community (including Indigenous groups)
Co-management of marine resources Regulation of oceans

2. Sustainable management Collaboration & cooperation

5. Reduced inequality

Build relationships between resource-user groups and government agency or NGOs to share management responsibilities and authority Immediate Government, NGOs, fishers Environment, fishers, community
Inclusion of small scale and non-market values Influence of corporations

4. Collaboration & cooperation

5. Reduced inequality

Establish agreements between small and large enterprise to share information, provide enterprise opportunities and ensure access rights Medium Private sector Small-enterprise, community
Knowledge co-production

Ecosystem change

Output and efficiency

4. Collaboration & cooperation

5. Reduced inequality

Targeted engagement with managers, fishers and coastal communities around strategies for responding to change Immediate Government and seafood industry, academia, Indigenous communities local communities (including Indigenous) and seafood industry

More detailed information on all actions identified is available in Table S3 and Figure S1