FCRR
Publication
Fisheries Centre Research Reports, Vol. 4 No. 2 Pages: 84pp
1996
1996
Edited by Tony J. Pitcher
Note: This report was scanned from a hard copy.
ABSTRACT
Reinventing Fisheries Management: the Symposium
From February 21st-24th 1996 over 100 fishery researchers gathered at the Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver, to discuss the reinvention of fisheries management. This Fisheries Centre Research Report volume provides the abstracts of papers presented that meeting, together with edited reports of discussion concerning the questions and issues raised.
Revised symposium papers (with some others that have been solicted) have been submitted for a peer-reviewed book entitled Reinventing Fisheries Management in the Chapman & Hall Fish & Fisheries Series edited by Tony Pitcher, Paul Hart and Daniel Pauly. The volume is scheduled to appear in 1997.
Judged by its recent track record, fisheries management certainly seems to need reinventing. Recently, the reputation of fisheries scientists has suffered a serious downturn. It seems that, despite our best efforts, fisheries world-wide have become severely depleted and, along with reductions in the size of fish harvested, fish communities shift towards small rapid growing species. These symptoms have been accompanied by a series of fisheries collapses that have not only been largely unforeseen even by our most advanced assessment methods, but have also brought about disastrous economic consequences. Such things have even occurred in Canada, a nation with probably more top-rate fishery scientists per capita than any other. Confidence in our discipline has been eroded at the very time when we need it most if we are to do anything to make fish harvests sustainable in the overpopulated world of the coming century.
So fisheries science is in now a state of flux and many feel that we are at a cross-roads where new paradigms compete for attention and evidence of their utility. Some of the world leaders in our subject have expressed the pessimistic view that no fishery has ever been properly understood or managed. Some consider that we have to conduct experiments with our fishery resources in order to hope to do any better. Some see a solution in quantifying our ignorance. Others look to the social sciences to bring salvation by trying to understand people as well as manage fish. This symposium seeks the new paradigm that will place these ideas in perspective and make them work.
New ways of looking at things entail interdisciplinary synergy between biological, ecological, social, and economic foci. This is a most difficult thing to achieve not least because exponents of these disciplines find it difficult to step outside of their walls are they are invariably rewarded in their careers only for staying securely within them.
- Understanding of the production base and the ecological impact of harvesting in freshwater and marine ecosystems. (Dr Jim Kitchell)
- Assessing fisheries intelligently, quant-ifying risk and learning to make management adaptive. (Dr Keith Sainsbury)
- Shaping policy to make fishing responsible and fit both the sustainable limits of the resource and the ambitions of humans (Dr Kevern Cochrane).
- Reducing conflict and fostering consensus by understanding fishing communities (Dr David Policansky)
- Mitigating resource depletion through innovative and appropriate economic instruments (Dr Rognvaldur Hannesson)
- Fostering sustainable development and the key research by encouraging the right kind of institutions. (Dr Meryl Williams)
By attempting to integrate across these multidisciplinary themes, our ambitious objective is to help create a fresh synthesis and a new paradigm for the management of fisheries.
In addition, the symposium included the second Larkin Lecture, covering the same broad 'Reinventing' theme, delivered by Dr John Caddy.
This report gives three overviews of the symposium from participants. An abstract the Larkin Lecture abstract appears next. (The full Larkin Lecture is to be published after peer review in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.)
The major section of the report comprises abstracts of the papers presented each followed by discussion collated by rapporteurs and edited. Rapporteurs, who worked in pairs, were chosen from among the Fisheries Centre graduate students. The pairs of rapporteurs have had the opportunity to submit synopses of the main points raised in discussion of their sessions as Points of View for the Reinventing Fisheries Management Book, co-authored with the Chairs of their session
Each of the six symposium themes opens with an abstract of the Keynote Address, followed by questions and discussion of the paper. Points of View papers appear next, each with its associated questions. Most theme end with a general discussion.
The report concludes with brief biographies of the keynote speakers, the programme of the symposium, and addresses for the registered participants.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements and Dedication | iii |
| Overviews of Reinventing Fisheries Management | |
Reinventing Fisheries Management: the Symposium (Tony Pitcher) | 1 |
Synopsis of the Symposium (Craig Harris) | 2 |
New contexts, New tools (Nigel Haggan) | 10 |
Reinventing the Tree (Nigel Haggan) | 11 |
| The Larkin Lecture | |
Fisheries management after 2000: will new paradigms apply? (John Caddy) | 15 |
| Abstracts and Discussion | |
Theme 1: The Production Base and Ecosystem Management | |
Keynote Address: The trophic cascade and food web management (James Kitchell) | 16 |
Points of View -Theme 1 | |
The control of undesirable introduced species in small freshwater lakes: what we should learn from past experiments (Pierre Magnan) | 21 |
Constraints on the intensity of trophic linkages in lake food webs (Bill Neill) | 22 |
Ecosystem management: the next step (Daniel Pauly & Villy Christensen) | 23 |
The understanding and prediction of marine production: considerations for the future (James Scandol) | 24 |
A new method to identify individual natal stream sources of salmonids and migration patterns of fish (Sam Wang & R.Brown) | 25 |
Using mass-balance (Ecopath) food web models to structure dynamic (Ecosim) simulation models (Carl Walters, Villy Christensen & Daniel Pauly) | 26 |
General Discussion of Theme 1 (Kathy Heise & Alida Bundy) | 26 |
Theme 2: Assessment, Risk and Adaptive Management | |
Keynote Address: Rediscovering adaptive management: a framework linking science and decision making in a reinvented fisheries management (Keith Sainsbury) | 30 |
Points of View - Theme 2 | |
An overview of tuna assessment and management world wide (Alain Fonteneau) | 33 |
Predictive models of growth, survival and reproduction. (Jarl Giske) | 35 |
Benefits of taking uncertainties into account when making decisions in fisheries management: example applications of Bayesian decision analysis. (Randall Peterman | 36 |
Intelligent fisheries assessment in an uncertain world (Laura Richards) | 37 |
Fixed exploitation rate strategies for coping with effects of climate change (Carl Walters & Ana Parma) | 38 |
General Discussion of Theme 2 (Alida Bundy & Kathy Heise) | 38 |
Theme 3: The Role of Policy in Responsible Fishing | |
Keynote Address: People, purses and power - some features of the debate surrounding a developing fisheries policy for South Africa (Kevern Cochrane | 41 |
Points of View - Theme 3 | |
Regime formation and community participation in fisheries management (Craig K.Harris) | 44 |
Measuring the unmeasurable: multivariate interdisciplinary method for determining the health of fisheries (Tony Pitcher, David Preikshot, Daniel Pauly & Alida Bundy) | 45 |
Politics and fisheries (Gert van Santen) | 46 |
Modifications of Scotian Fundy groundfish management for sustainable use (Michael Sinclair) | 47 |
A new paradigm for managing marine fisheries in the next millennium (Michael Sutton) | 48 |
First world foreign fishing and third world fisheries: impact on resources, economy and society (Alida Bundy & Tony Pitcher) | 49 |
General Discussion of Theme 3 (Dave Preikshot & Steven Mackinson) | 50 |
Theme 4: The Role of the Interface between the Social and Natural Sciences | |
Keynote Address: Fisheries management: science and decision making (David Policansky) | 51 |
Points of View - Theme 4 | |
For fishers or fishes?: a comment on the development of an interdisciplinary science of fisheries and fisheries management (Tony Davis) | 53 |
A bridge over troubling waters? Strategies for integrating natural and social science for sustainable fisheries (Lawrence Felt) | 53 |
Enlarging the shadow of the future - avoiding conflict and conserving fish in a novel management regime off South Devon, UK (Paul Hart) | 54 |
Fisheries management: a role for social science? (Svein Jentoft) | 55 |
Observations on the social science of fleet dynamics and local knowledge (Thomas McGuire) | 56 |
General Discussion of Theme 4 (Steven Mackinson & Dave Preikshot) | 57 |
Theme 5: The Role of Economic Tools in Reinventing Fisheries Management | |
Keynote Address: Fisheries management, politics and markets (Rogenvaldur Hannesson) | 58 |
Points of View - Theme 5 | |
New directions in fishery management: lessons from the collapse of Atlantic Canada's groundfish fishery (Anthony Charles) | 59 |
Natural assets and national wealth (Philip Neher) | 60 |
Cooperation and Quotas (Anthony Scott) | 61 |
Linking fish price and fishery practice through eco-certification, labelling and crediting (John Sproul) | 62 |
Uncertainty and the role of economics in reinventing fisheries management (Rashid Sumaila) | 63 |
General Discussion of Theme 5 (Dave Preikshot & Steven Mackinson) | 63 |
Theme 6: The Role of institutions and Partnerships | |
Keynote Address: Aquatic resources education for developing world needs (Meryl Williams) | 64 |
Points of View - Theme 6 | |
A fisheries agreement with the Nisga's people: the first step towards a sustainable fishery and fishery management system (Michael Link) | 65 |
Reinventing salmon management: changing the burden and nature of proof in salmon conservation programs to support a new management paradigm (Nancy Mundy) | 66 |
Science and the establishment of marine protected areas (Richard Paisley) | 67 |
Fostering sustainable development & research by encouraging the right kind of institutions (Jake Rice) | 68 |
The need for partnerships in reinventing fisheries management (Indrani Lutchman) | 69 |
A Point of View from Mexico (Antonio Diaz de Leon) | 69 |
General Discussion of Theme 6 (Peter Tyedmyers & Richard Porter) | 70 |
| Biographies of Keynote Speakers | 71 |
| Symposium Programme | 76 |
| List of Symposium Participants and their Addresses | 80 |
