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Spiny lobster fisheries exploited by 25 Caribbean countries, are subject to heterogeneous harvesting practices, with recurrent socioeconomic crisis in some of them. Therefore, a meta-data analysis was conducted with the purpose of evaluating the performance of the five main Caribbean lobster fisheries as well as the total production of the region aiming to provide general management recommendations. The associated costs, benefits and social values of a small fishery of the north western Caribbean were taken as reference. The stocks were assessed reconstructing the age structure of each population for the whole period, then the catch, the profits, direct jobs, and the profits per fisher were estimated under different ages of first catch (tc). From here, values related to the maximum sustainable yield (F_MSY) and the maximum economic yield (F_MEY) were selected as optimum harvesting options. Results show that the yield increases with tc and in three cases, at the F_MSY level are higher than at the F_MEY. The profits are higher at high tc values in three fisheries, being more profitable under the F_MEY levels. One fishery is not profitable under the F_MSY level at any age. The social value, as profits/fisher, is the highest at a tc = 2, and again, is higher on applying the F_MEY strategy. In one of the fisheries the social value at F_MSY is negative at any tc.

Palabras clave: Caribbean; optimum yield; Spiny lobster

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