evidence: 2. WHAT IS FISHERIES MANAGEMENT? [...] No. 3 Integration of Fisheries into Coastal Area Management [...] The integrated process of information gathering, analysis, planning, consultation, decision-making, allocation of resources and formulation and implementation, with enforcement as necessary, of regulations or rules which govern fisheries activities in order to ensure the continued productivity of the resources and the accomplishment of other fisheries objectives.From this description, it can be seen that fisheries management involves a complex and wide-ranging set of tasks, which collectively have the achievement of sustained optimal benefits from the resources as the underlying goal. These tasks are also summarised in Figure 1.