Alaska’s fisheries regulatory regime, one of the strongest,
most science-based fisheries management systems in the world,
is often held up as an example of fisheries management “done
right” (Worm et al. 2011). Faced with a barrage of oncoming
threats, ranging from budget cuts to climate change, will this
system prove to be truly resilient? To answer this question, we
examined the results of the research pertaining to governance
from a larger 5-year social-ecological study of the Alaska
Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research’s
(AK-EPSCoR) Alaska Adapting to Changing Environments
series.
