Normative considerations for recreational fishery management: a bioeconomic framework for linking positive science and normative fisheries policy decisions

Abstract Fishery science and management are concerned with both positive, what happens in a fishery system, and normative, what management should do, questions. Rarely are normative criteria discussed as openly and transparently as the positive techniques and assumptions. Instead, normative criteria are often held implicitly, and often goals, and objectives are defined without careful thought abou…