39 Ecosystem Approaches to Marine Fisheries Science and Management

Wednesday, September 15, 2010: 8:00 AM-5:20 PM
402 (Convention Center)
With the passage of the Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Act) in 1976, the United States Federal Government took on the responsibility to develop a comprehensive marine fisheries management system for United States waters in the Exclusive Economic Zone.  Under the Act, a system of marine Regional Fishery Management Councils (Councils) was created and charged with the responsibility to develop fishery management plans (FMPs) for important marine fisheries.  The Councils, under the guidance of the U.S. Department of Commerce, have over the past several decades, developed FMPs for numerous marine species.  The recent reauthorization of the Act in 2006 has required study on the state of science for integration of ecosystem considerations in regional fisheries management problems.  The symposium will build on the work of the recent studies and focus on reporting of progress with the Ecosystem Approach to Management (EAM) in order to provide a comprehensive review and analysis on the use of new approaches for Federal and Council marine fisheries programs.  An EAM is a critical approach to management and one that provides a comprehensive framework for marine and coastal decision making.  In contrast to individual species or single issue management, EAM considers a wider range of relevant ecological, environmental, and human factors bearing on societal choices regarding resource use and protection.  A critical element for a successful EAM strategy is integrated ecosystem assessments (IEAs).  An IEA is a formal synthesis and quantitative analysis of existing information on relevant natural and socio-economic factors in relation to specified ecosystem management objectivesSymposium participants will review recent work on the development and use of EAMs and IEAs, Ecosystem Based Modeling Theory (EBM), Ecosystem Comparisons and System Descriptions, Ecosystem Modeling, Ecosystem-level fisheries decision criteria, EBM Case Studies, and Implementation and Governance considerations.
Moderator:
Michael Fogarty, PhD
Organizers:
Michael Fogarty, PhD , Jason S. Link, PhD , William J. Overholtz, PjhD and Paul Perra
8:00 AM
Progress toward implementing marine ecosystem-based management in the United States
Steven A. Murawski, Ph.D, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
8:20 AM
Fisheries and ecosystem-based management: The role of marine spatial planning
Larry Crowder, PhD, Center for Marine Conservation
8:40 AM
Multi-model inference in support of marine ecosystem-based fisheries management
Jason S. Link, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; Robert J. Gamble, National Marine Fisheries Service; William J. Overholtz, PjhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA/NEFSC
9:00 AM
Ecosystem responses to changing time scales of environmental variability in climate change
Louis W. Botsford, PhD, University of California, Davis; Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis; Matthew Holland, University of California, Davis; Michael Fogarty, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service
9:40 AM
Strategic and tactical planning for ecosystem approaches to manage Chesapeake Bay fisheries
Edward D. Houde, PhD, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Shannon Green, Maryland Sea Grant College
10:00 AM
Break
10:40 AM
Ecosystem-based fishery management for the northeast U.S. Continental Shelf: Options for implementation
Michael Fogarty, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; William J. Overholtz, PjhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; Jason S. Link, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service
11:20 AM
Developing models, indicators, and visualizations for ecosystem assessments in Alaska
Kerim Y. Aydin, PhD, NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
11:40 AM
Simplifying fish population dynamics for ecosystem-based modeling
Sarah M. Glaser, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA/NEFSC; Les Kaufman, PhD, Boston University and Conservation International; Hui Liu, PhD, NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC; Andrew Rosenberg, Conservation International; George Sugihara, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD; Hao Ye, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
12:00 PM
Lunch Break On Your Own
1:20 PM
1:40 PM
Climate change and fisheries in the northeast U.S. shelf large marine ecosystem
Jonathan Hare, PhD, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center; Michael Fogarty, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; Kevin Friedland, PhD, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Jason S. Link, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; Janet Nye, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; William J. Overholtz, PjhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; David Richardson, PhD, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center
2:00 PM
Gearing up for fisheries as part of whole-system EBM
Les Kaufman, PhD, Boston University and Conservation International; Roel Boumans, PhD, University of Vermont
2:40 PM
Teleconnections to fisheries: A century-scale perspective on the linkages between climate, hydrography, fisheries recruitment in Chesapeake Bay, and Mid-Atlantic fisheries management
Robert J. Wood, PhD, NOAA-NOS-NCCOS; Edward J. Martino, PhD, JHT; Zhang Xinsheng, PhD, JHT; Jacqueline M. Johnson, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
3:00 PM
Break
3:20 PM
Informing ecosystem approaches to management: Land use and climate change in relation to fishable and swimmable expectations in Chesapeake Bay
J. Jacobs, NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/Oxford Laboratory; Ana Baya, JHT Inc., Contractor to NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/Oxford Laboratory; Julianna Brush, JHT Inc., Contractor to NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/Oxford Laboratory; James Councilman, JHT Inc., Contractor to NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/Oxford Laboratory; AK Leight, NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/Oxford Laboratory; Matt Rhodes, JHT Inc., Contractor to NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/Oxford Laboratory; Bob Wood, NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/Oxford Laboratory
3:40 PM
Multi-decadal analysis of phytoplankton biomass in the northeast U.S. continental shelf large marine ecosystem
Kimberly Hyde, PhD, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; John O'Reilly, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Watson Gregg, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center,; Jon Hare, PhD, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Kevin Friedland, PhD, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
3:50 PM
The effects of fishing effort and environmental variability on fish community dynamics on Georges Bank
Hui Liu, PhD, NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC; Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA/NEFSC; Laurel A. Col, NOAA/NEFSC
4:00 PM
Estimating species interactions in the Georges Bank fish community
Kiersten L. Curti, University of Rhode Island; Jeremy S. Collie, University of Rhode Island; Jason S. Link, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; Chris M. Legault, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service
4:10 PM
Shifting species assemblages within the northeast U.S. large marine ecosystem
Sean M. Lucey, National Marine Fisheries; Janet A. Nye, National Marine Fisheries
4:20 PM
ATLANTIS-NEUS: Exploring ecosystem dynamics, possible management actions, and climate scenarios in the northeast U.S. large marine ecosystem with ATLANTIS
Robert J. Gamble, National Marine Fisheries Service; Jason S. Link, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service; Elizabeth Fulton, PhD, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
4:30 PM
Trends in condition factors for 40 finfish stocks off the northeast U.S. continental shelf
Laurel A. Col, NOAA/NEFSC; Michael J. Fogarty, NOAA/NEFSC
4:40 PM
Panel discussion
Michael Fogarty, PhD, National Marine Fisheries Service
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