APES

Catch share system

After determining total fish available for harvest, it divides it up equally.

Maximum sustainable yield

Half the carrying capacity gives us the amount of fish to take in total.

Precautionary Principle

If fishery is struggling, close it off and stop all impact just in case there is a serious problem.

Wetlands Banks

For every acre taken away, create or restore at least as much.

Comanagement

Fisherman, residents, and government working together to care for a fishery.

Tragedy of the commons

Fisheries ultimately are hard to manage as so many different group have access and need without a way to make laws to stop them directly.

Marine stewardship council

Certifies which fish are sustainable with “fish forever” label.

Mitigation banking

Investors restoration projects that projects that people can then buy to enable them to fill in other protected areas.

Comprehensive Everglades restoration Plan

Created many reservoirs and underground water storage areas and canal system.

Wild and Scenic rivers system

Doubled the length of rivers via 2009 law.

Fishery regulation

set low catch limits for fishing

Bycatch

Use nets and devices that allow turtles to escape.

Protection

Establishing marine protected areas (sanctuaries)

Economic approaches

Reduce or eliminate the 10billion/year government subsidies for fishing.

Aquaculture

Improve pollution control and loation for fish farms.

Nonnative invasions

filter or “clean/kill” ballast water

Consumer information

Label fish in market as sustainable or problematic

boiling salt water in your kitchen

Desalination - local option

large plants removing salt from water

desalination - big scale option

well in backyard, cistern

water supply - local option

dam in a river for reservoir next to treatment facility

water supply - big scale option

rain barrels, roof/cistern

rain catchment - local option

rain catchment - big scale option

Reservoir collecting stormwater for use.

drip irrigation/timers

irrigation - local option

center pivot irrigation

irrigation - big scale option

water purification tablets/life-straw

water treatment - local

water treatment facility

water treatment - big scale option

community cleanup days

stream/river care - local

project for restoration of banks of rivers

stream/river care - big scale

septic tanks, composting/incinerating toilets

sewage - local

wastewater treatment facilities

sewage - big scale

having a driveway with pebbles instead cement, plant vegetation

runoff management - local

storm water drains, zoning for impervious surfaces, buffer zones.

runoff management - big scale

restaurant donating leftover, refrigerator plan, buy smaller ammounts, buy local.

food waste - local

community gardens used daily, genetic engineering.

food waste - big scale

owning a front loading washings machine

appliances - local

subsidizing low flow urinals, two flow toilets, automatic turnoff faucets

appliances - big scale

potted plants on your balcony of 10 story condo

green roof - local

grass covering google headquarters

green roof - big scale

not leaving the water running when brushing your teeth, shorter showers, low flow showerheads

water conservation - local

limiting the number of days home can water law, dry farming, improved irrigation, using waste water for irrigation.

water conservation - big scale