Distributed Graduate Seminar: Finding common ground in marine conservation and management
Principal Investigators:
Ray Hilborn, and Boris Worm
There is increasing concern among scientists, resource managers, and the general public about the current state of marine fisheries and their supporting ecosystems. Recent scientific progress on this topic has been partly overshadowed by significant controversy on how to assess marine resources and how to address current problems in ocean management. Marine ecologists and fisheries scientists often tend to favor contrasting approaches, and we observe that these schools of thought have polarized over time. We now recognize this situation as counterproductive... more
There is increasing concern among scientists, resource managers, and the general public about the current state of marine fisheries and their supporting ecosystems. Recent scientific progress on this topic has been partly overshadowed by significant controversy on how to assess marine resources and how to address current problems in ocean management. Marine ecologists and fisheries scientists often tend to favor contrasting approaches, and we observe that these schools of thought have polarized over time. We now recognize this situation as counterproductive and propose to address this controversy where possible. To help address this concern, the National Center for Ecological analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) is supporting a Working Group to define common ground among marine ecologists and fishery scientists by (1) developing a unifying terminology and a common analytical framework for assessing marine fisheries and ecosystem change, (2) applying this framework to a number of representative marine ecosystems around the globe, and (3) assessing management successes and failures in order to identify a set of tools that have been proven to reverse trends of degradation in marine fish stocks and ecosystems. This process should also identify areas of continued disagreement, important for focusing future research. The central question we are trying to answer is: how can we merge contrasting objectives, tools, and scientific criteria among marine ecology, fisheries science, and management into a unifying framework. We envision that this group will be acting as a catalyst for joining scientific forces in a quest to sustain and restore valuable marine resources. Clearly, one of the solutions to integrating the interests and efforts of fisheries biologists and ecologists is to expose young scientists to the goals and approaches of the various interested parties dealing with these issues. Accordingly, NCEAS will coordinate a Distributed Graduate Seminar (DGS) to involve graduate students and mentors from six universities.
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Participants and Meetings
Activity | Dates | Further Information |
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Meeting | 2nd—4th May 2009 | Participant List |
Participant Contact Information
Ricardo O. Amoroso | ricardoamoroso@yahoo.com | Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT) |
Sean C. Anderson | sandrsn@uw.edu | Dalhousie University |
Richard Bell | brell@gso.uri.edu | University of Rhode Island |
Trevor A. Branch | tbranch@uw.edu | University of Washington |
Jeremy Collie | jcollie@gso.uri.edu | University of Rhode Island, Narragansett |
Kiersten Curti | kcurti@gso.uri.edu | University of Rhode Island, Narragansett |
Maria Lourdes Estalles | mariluestalles@gmail.com | Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT) |
Gavin Fay | gfay@u.washington.edu | University of Washington |
Ray Hilborn | hilbornr@gmail.com | University of Washington |
Jason Krumholz | jkrumholz@gso.uri.edu | University of Rhode Island, Narragansett |
Coilin Minto | coilin.minto@gmit.ie | Dalhousie University |
Ana Maria Parma | parma@cenpat.edu.ar | Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT) |
Gabriela E. Penaloza | gescati@cenpat.edu.ar | Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT) |
Malin L. Pinsky | pinsky@princeton.edu | Stanford University |
Daniel Ricard | ricardd@mathstat.dal.ca | Dalhousie University |
Suresh Sethi | sasethi@u.washington.edu | University of Washington |
Katyana Vert-Pre | katyana.vertpre@hotmail.fr | University of Washington |
William Whitmore | wwhitmore@mail.uri.edu | University of Rhode Island, Narragansett |
Boris Worm | bworm@dal.ca | Dalhousie University |
Products: Publications, Reports, Datasets, Presentations, Visualizations
Type | Products of NCEAS Research |
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Journal Article | Branch, Trevor A.; Watson, Reg; Fulton, Elizabeth A.; Jennings, Simon; McGilliard, Carey R.; Pablico, Grace T.; Ricard, Daniel; Tracey, Sean R. 2010. The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries. Nature. Vol: 468. Pages 431-435. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Branch, Trevor A.; Jensen, Olaf P.; Ricard, Daniel; Ye, Yimin; Hilborn, Ray. 2011. Contrasting global trends in marine fishery status obtained from catches and from stock assessments. Conservation Biology. Vol: 25(4). Pages 777-786. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Collie, Jeremy; Minto, Coilin; Worm, Boris; Bell, Richard. 2013. Predation on prerecruits can delay rebuilding of depleted cod stocks. Bulletin of Marine Science. Vol: 89(1). Pages 107-122. |
Journal Article | Cope, Jason M.; Punt, Andre. 2009. Length-based reference points for data-limited situations: Applications and restrictions. Marine and Coastal Fisheries-Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science. Vol: 1. Pages 169-186. |
Journal Article | Hutchings, Jeffrey A.; Minto, Coilin; Ricard, Daniel; Baum, Julia K.; Jensen, Olaf P. 2010. Trends in the abundance of marine fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Vol: 67(8). Pages 1205-1210. |
Journal Article | Pinsky, Malin L.; Jensen, Olaf P.; Ricard, Daniel; Palumbi, Stephen R. 2011. Unexpected patterns of fisheries collapse in the world's oceans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 108. Pages 8317-8322. (Online version) |
Journal Article | Ricard, Daniel; Branton, R. M.; Clark, Donald W.; Hurley, Peter. 2010. Extracting groundfish survey indices from the ocean biogeographic information system (OBIS): An example from Fisheries and Oceans Canada. ICES Journal of Marine Science. Vol: 67(4). Pages 638-645. |
Journal Article | Sethi, Suresh; Branch, Trevor A.; Watson, Reg. 2010. Global fishery development patterns are driven by profit but not trophic level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol: 107(27). Pages 12163-12167. |
Journal Article | Worm, Boris; Hilborn, Ray; Baum, Julia K.; Branch, Trevor A.; Collie, Jeremy; Costello, Christopher; Fogarty, Michael J.; Fulton, Elizabeth A.; Hutchings, Jeffrey A.; Jennings, Simon; Jensen, Olaf P.; Lotze, Heike K.; Mace, Pamela M.; McClanahan, Timothy R.; Minto, Coilin; Palumbi, Stephen R.; Parma, Ana Maria; Ricard, Daniel; Rosenberg, Andrew A.; Watson, Reg; Zeller, Dirk. 2009. Rebuilding Global Fisheries. Science. Vol: 325. Pages 578-585. |
"Distributed Graduate Seminar: Finding common ground in marine conservation and management " is project ID: 12307