NCEAS Working Groups
Limited-information fisheries management
Project Description
Effective and efficient fisheries management is often limited by available information and the high cost of collecting detailed fisheries data. Information gaps and management challenges often exist, for example, with regard to assessing stock size and dynamics, the spatial distribution of harvest given particular policies, and monitoring and enforcement of bycatch standards. This workshop, organized by the Sustainable Fisheries Group at UCSB, seeks to develop analytical innovations to deal with these challenges, with the goals of improving fishery value, compliance, accountability, and sustainability and minimizing management costs. Workshop participants will aim to identify theoretical and analytical advances in fishery management, including limited-information fisheries, with particular emphasis on: 1) spatial management approaches, 2) incentive-based management, 3) stock assessment and management under uncertainty, and 4) multi-species management. Participants will discuss the conditions under which these theoretical innovations could be practically useful in fisheries management, the benefits from applying them, and opportunities for further advances. The workshop organizers will work with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a leading conservation organization, to ensure that the results from this workshop are shared widely and utilized to improve on-the-ground fisheries reform.
Principal Investigator(s)
Christopher Costello
Project Dates
Start: June 8, 2009
End: June 10, 2009
completed
Participants
- Richard B. Allen
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Ragnar Arnason
- University of Iceland
- Kristin Carden
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Christopher Costello
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Robert Deacon
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Patty Debenham
- Environmental Defense Center
- Rod M. Fujita
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Steven D. Gaines
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Corbett A. Grainger
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Theodore Groves
- University of California, San Diego
- Ray Hilborn
- University of Washington
- Kristen T. Honey
- Stanford University
- Larry Karp
- University of California, Berkeley
- Brian P. Kinlan
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Hunter S. Lenihan
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Sarah E. Lester
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- John Lynham
- University of Hawaii, Mānoa
- Alec D. MacCall
- NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
- John M. Melack
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Frank Merry
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Lars J. Olson
- University of Maryland, College Park
- Ana Maria Parma
- Centro Nacional Patagónico (CENPAT)
- Jeremy Prince
- Murdoch University
- Diane Regas
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Wolfram Schlenker
- Columbia University
- Andrew Solow
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- George Sugihara
- University of California, San Diego
- Gil Sylvia
- Oregon State University
- Quinn Weninger
- Iowa State University
- Kate Wing
- Natural Resources Defense Council
Products
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Journal Article / 2010
Marine Reserves Special Feature: The value of spatial information in MPA network design