During the first phase of the management component, we will begin building a coalition to advance domestic striped marlin management measures that address the US relative impact on the overfished stock and to secure international support for a striped marlin rebuilding plan. The second phase of the plan is to monitor the domestic and international rebuilding plans for improvement, identify measures to improve the plans, and extend similar protections as needed to other Pacific billfish stocks, such as blue marlin. The third phase is to apply information learned from our research to improve domestic and international management of billfish.

We will produce a comprehensive web-based platform for information on Pacific marlin stock status, current domestic management, conservation measures and threats, current research and research needs. We will use this as a means of communicating with constituents, coalition partners and fishery managers (domestic and international). We will update this platform throughout the project. Phase two will focus on earned media, editorials, letters to the editor, op-eds discussing the additional management needed to rebuild billfish stocks and explaining our research and how it may help protect billfish. The final phase will focus on explaining the findings of the research to our constituents and fishery managers and linking the findings to additional management measures that can be taken domestically and internationally, to protect billfish.