The ubiquity of data-limited, data-absent, and unmanaged fisheries around the world illustrates a significant need for enhanced monitoring of living marine resources beyond conventional agency-led programs. While quantitative stock assessments represent the gold standard for fisheries management, simple length-based datasets alone can provide important insights into fishery status and can be collected by citizen and community...

The status of federally managed fisheries in the United States is well monitored, but the condition of other marine fisheries, whether state‐managed, territory‐managed or unmanaged, is less understood and often unknown. We used expert surveys to characterize the management systems of non‐federally managed fisheries in US coastal marine states and overseas territories. For 311 fisheries, we estimated an overall Fisheries Manage...