Contribution to the Themed Section: ‘Plugging spatial ecology into sustainable fisheries and EBM’ Quo Vadimus The ocean’s movescape: fisheries management in the bio-logging decade (2018–2028) Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri 1,2 *, Roland Kays 3,4 , James T. Thorson 5‡ , and Martin Wikelski 6,7 1 Fisheries and Aquatic Science Program, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, 7922 NW 71st Street, Gainesville, FL 32653, USA 2 Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, 100 8th Ave. SE, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA 3 North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones St, Raleigh, NC 2601, USA 4 Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, 2820 Faucette Dr., Campus Box 8001, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA 5 Fisheries Resource Assessment and Monitoring Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA, Seattle, WA 98112, USA 6 Department of Migration and Immunoecology, Max-Planck Institute of Ornithology, Radolfzell 78315, Germany 7 Department of Biology, Konstanz University, Konstanz 78457, Germany *Corresponding author: tel: þ (727) 502 4930; e-mail: Susan.Barbieri@myfwc.com. ‡ Present address: Habitat and Ecosystem Process Research program, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA, Seattle, WA 98115, USA Lowerre-Barbieri, S. K., Kays, R., Thorson, J. T., and Wikelski, M. The ocean’s movescape: fisheries management in the bio-logging decade (2018–2028). – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 76: 477–488. Received 9 October 2018; revised 19 December 2018; accepted 22 December 2018; advance access publication 5 February 2019. Although movement has always played an important role in fisheries science, movement patterns are changing with changing ocean conditions. This affects availability to capture, the spatial scale of needed governance, and our food supply. Technological advances make it possible to track marine fish (and fishermen) in ways not previously possible and tracking data is expected to grow exponentially over the next ten years – the bio- logging decade. In this article, we identify fisheries management data needs that tracking data can help fill, ranging from: improved estimates of natural mortality and abundance to providing the basis for short-term fisheries closures (i.e. dynamic closures) and conservation of biodiversity hot- spots and migratory corridors. However, the sheer size of the oceans, lack of GPS capability, and aspects of marine fish life history traits (e.g., adult/ offspring size ratios, high mortality rates) create challenges to obtaining this data. We address these challenges and forecast how they will be met in the next 10 years through increased use of drones and sensor networks, decreasing tag size with increased sensor capacity trends, the ICARUS initia- tive to increase satellite tracking capacity, and improved connectivity between marine and terrestrial movement researchers and databases. Keywords: Keywords: bio-logging, fisheries, ICARUS, movement ecology, telemetry, tracking. Introduction Fisheries science has long acknowledged the importance of move- ment (Moulton, 1939; Harden Jones, 1968) but has not yet inte- grated advances in tracking technology and ecological theory regarding movement processes into fisheries management (Secor, 2015; Allen and Singh, 2016; Crossin et al., 2017). The movement ecology paradigm (Nathan, 2008) defines an individual’s move- ment as a function of internal state, motion and navigation capacity, and external factors. By focussing on individual lifetime tracks, it links movement with fitness and builds the conceptual foundation for movement patterns to be considered part of an animal’s life history. However, this needs to be contextualized within temporal and biological scales to identify key processes important to conservation and fisheries management (Table 1). Short-term movements are associated with feeding and breeding events and drive real-time encounter rates between individuals V C International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 2019. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com ICES Journal of Marine Science (2019), 76(2), 477–488. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsy211 Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/76/2/477/5307415 by guest on 05 June 2022