Fisheries are supposed to be for the benefit of society, producing food, providing livelihoods and enabling cultural continuity. Biological productivity goals for fish stocks operationalised through Harvest Control Rules (HCRs) are central to contemporary fisheries management. While fisheries policies often state socio-economic objectives, such as enhancing the livelihoods of coastal communities, those are rarely, if ever, incorporated into operationalised management procedures. The lack of articulation of social objectives and lack of monitoring of social outcomes around HCRs amounts to poor public policy. In this article, we explore the potential for social HCRs (sHCRs) with reference points and agreed predefined actions to make the social dimensions of fisheries explicit. sHCRs cannot cover all social dimensions, so should be considered as one tool within a broader framework of fisheries governance. Moreover, successful sHCRs would require sound deliberative and participatory processes to generate legitimate social objectives, and monitoring and evaluation of fisheries management performance against those objectives. We introduce two potential types of sHCRs, one based on allocation of catch within biological limit reference points, and one for when fishing exceeds biological limit reference points. The application of sHCRs, we argue, can foster accountability and help avoid non-transparent negotiations on size and distribution of the catch. Our proposal is a call to action for policy makers and fisheries managers to properly integrate social criteria into fisheries governance, and for both biophysical fisheries scientists and social scientists to do better in practical collaboration for methods and knowledge development to support this integration.

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可持续渔业的社会收获控制规则

渔业应该造福社会，生产粮食，提供生计并实现文化连续性。通过收获控制规则（HCR）实现的鱼类种群生物生产力目标是当代渔业管理的核心。虽然渔业政策经常规定社会经济目标，例如提高沿海社区的生计，但这些目标很少（如果有的话）纳入可操作的管理程序。缺乏对社会目标的明确阐述以及缺乏对 HCR 社会成果的监测相当于糟糕的公共政策。在本文中，我们通过参考点和商定的预定义行动探讨了社会 HCR (sHCR) 的潜力，以使渔业的社会层面变得明确。sHCR 无法涵盖所有​​社会层面，因此应将其视为更广泛的渔业治理框架内的一项工具。此外，成功的 sHCR 需要健全的审议和参与过程来制定合法的社会目标，并根据这些目标监测和评估渔业管理绩效。我们介绍了两种潜在的 sHCR 类型，一种基于生物极限参考点内的渔获量分配，另一种基于捕捞量超过生物极限参考点时的分配。我们认为，sHCR 的应用可以促进问责制，并有助于避免有关渔获量规模和分配的不透明谈判。我们的提案呼吁政策制定者和渔业管理者采取行动，将社会标准适当纳入渔业治理，