In fisheries management, socio-economic demand should be adapted as closely as possible to ecological feasibilities. The objectives of fisheries management may be conservation, compensation of damage caused by changes in the natural environment, diversification of the stocks and increasing the value, level and stability of the catch. Stocking is not an objective in itself. It is a strategic choice.
Most frequently the purposes of coregonid stockings are compensation, maintenance, enhancement, repopulation and conservation (Appendix I).
The strategy chosen to achieve fisheries management objectives can be based on environmental improvements (habitat conservation, restoration and development, mass removal), regulation of fisheries and stocking, alone or in combination. It is noteworthy that stocking is only one possible means to achieve the objectives set and is seldom, if ever, the only one.
