Caribbean Workshop Briefing Materials

Tab 1: Workshop Agenda
Tab 2: Bios and Contact Information

• Invited Speakers
• Fisheries Forum Staff

Tab 3: Managing Uncertainty

• Magnuson-Stevens Act | Guidelines excerpt
• Setting ACLs

Tab 4: Fisheries Science

• Fisheries Stock Assessments

Tab 5: Case Study Panel

• Solutions From Around the World
• New England Scallop Fishery (Available at workshop)
• California Nearshore Finfish Fishery:
  • Transition from low to high data richness
  • From paper to practice

Tab 6: Current Effort in the US Caribbean

• Background on US Caribbean Data Collection (Available at workshop)
• Commercial Data Improvement Project
• St. Croix Fishery Independent Pilot Project (Available at workshop)

Tab 7: Data-Poor Approaches

• Marine Reserve Strategies: Decision trees
• Spawning Potential Ratio (Available at workshop)
• Monitoring Reserves: Density Ratio Control Rule
  • How useful is the ratio of fish density outside versus inside no-take marine reserves as a metric for fishery management control rules?
  • Can information from marine protected areas be used to inform control-rule-based management of small-scale, data-poor stocks?
• Ecological Risk Assessment for the Effects of Fishing
• General Data-Poor Information
  • Assessment methods for data-poor stocks
  • From Rags to Fishes: Data-poor methods for fishery managers

Tab 8: Other Documents

• Supplemental Disk (Available at workshop)