Workshop
The EcoFish approach to fisheries advice
Workshop arranged by the project Ecosystem and Fish Stock Dynamics (EcoFish)
May 15th and 16th 2006
Villa Skjoldnes, Sundtsveg 57, Nesttun, Bergen ( tel: 55 13 73 60)
The objective of the workshop is to get a clear perspective of what is done elsewhere in the world before we establish the research direction of the EcoFish program. We therefore arrange a workshop among program participants and invite some external contributors. Mike Sinclair will give a talk on What are the expected gains of the ecosystem approach to fisheries? The Canadian perspective. We will have other guests as well both from inside and outside the Institute of Marine Research.
Topics:
This is part of the EcoFish strategy to
· establish a common understanding of the problems and the challenges,
· establish a sound scientific fundament with basis in the international literature, and
· set priorities and initiate interaction among program scientists with different background.
The overriding questions we want to clarify are: What are the benefits from an ecosystem approach? And what approaches are available to reach the goal? To open our perspective we want external experts to help us answer these key questions as well as supporting the strategic issues listed above. Further, we will have talks and open for discussions on a series of issues:
i) What do indicators tell (stock, ecosystem, early warning, regime shifts)?
ii) Ecosystem effects on recruitment (plankton, skipped spawning, environmental factors).
iii) Are ecological processes relevant in an ecosystem approach to fisheries management?
iv) How to handle uncertainty (inadequate data, lack of knowledge about processes, precautionary approach, modeling vs. observations).
Welcomme
AGENDA
DAY 1, Monday, May 15th
Arrival 09:00 hrs/coffee
Start of meeting, 9:30 hrs
Lunch 12:30 hrs
Reconvene 13:30 hrs
Coffe 15:30 hrs
Reconvene 16:00 hrs
End of meeting, Day 1, 18:00 hrs
Dinner 19:00 hrs
DAY 2, Tuesday, May 16th
Start of meeting, 09:00 hrs
Coffee, 11:00
Reconvene, 11:30
Lunch 13:00 hrs
Reconvene 14:00
Departure 16:00 hrs
Our plan for the workshop is also to arrange group discussions and plenary discussions on interesting ideas and topics that pop up during the workshop. Therefore we have decided on a more flexible time schedule.
PROGRAM
DAY 1 |
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Kjellrun Hiis Hauge |
Welcome, and an introduction to EcoFish and the workshop |
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Mike Sinclair |
What are the expected gains of the ecosystem approach to the fisheries? The Canadian perspective |
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Observational and modeling approaches to detecting change in ecosystems |
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Svein Sundby |
Ecosystem based advice in a climate perspective |
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Richard Nash |
What can indicators on different ecosystem levels tell us? |
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Webjørn Melle |
How do plankton influence fish stock dynamics? |
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Frode Vikebø |
How sensitive is drift and settlement patterns of NEA cod larvae to vertical distribution? |
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Sigurd Tjelmeland |
What can we take into account in fisheries advice? |
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Howard Browman |
The ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management is missing the ecology… |
DAY 2 |
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Poul Degnbol |
The precautionary approach from the perspective of ecosystem-based management or the other way around… |
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Per Sandberg |
Perspectives on the ecosystem approach from a fishery manager |
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Are Dommasnes |
Indicators, the challenge of making them operational. |
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Einar Svendsen and Olav Rune Godø |
Modeling and observing the ecosystem – the challenge of integration |
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Sam Subbey |
Indicators and fish stock assessment |
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Sondre Aanes |
Indicators and uncertainty, the challenge of separating signals from noise |
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Mike Sinclair |
Concluding remarks |
For questions or registration: Olav S. Kjesbu and Svein A. Iversen | 
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