West Coast Forum

Co-Management and Cooperative Research

September 4-5, 2014 • Coronado, CA

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The purpose of the 2014 West Coast Forum was to explore the roles of co-management and cooperative research in advancing management objectives, and promoting innovation and efficiency through sharing responsibility.

Forum objectives

  • Enhance participants’ understanding of co-management and cooperative research approaches

  • Explore examples of co-management and cooperative research in practice and draw lessons from those experiences

  • Consider the legal authorities, procedural mechanisms, analytical requirements, and tradeoffs associated with co-management arrangements

  • Discuss how cooperative research can be leveraged to support council decision-making

  • Examine the roles and responsibilities of councils, NOAA Fisheries, and stakeholders in engaging in formal and informal partnerships

  • Reflect on the role of leadership and relationship building in supporting innovative management and research arrangements

Day 1 • Thursday, September 4th

Introduction and origins

Cooperative research and co-management

Heather Sagar, Senior Policy Advisor, NOAA Fisheries Office of Policy

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Origins of co-management: Northwest Indian Treaty Tribes

Craig Bowhay, Fisheries Policy Analyst, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

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Private-private partnerships in co-management

Bycatch risk pools in Pacific groundfish fisheries

Bob Dooley, Trawl Fisherman, Half Moon Bay, CA

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Bycatch avoidance networks in New England and Mid-Atlantic Fisheries

Cate O’Keefe, Research Associate, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology

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Public-private partnerships in co-management

Salmon bycatch in the North Pacific pollock fishery

Sally Bibb, Deputy Assistant Regional Administrator, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office

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Sector management in the New England groundfish fishery

Tom Nies, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council

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Community co-management

The American Samoa community-based fisheries management program

Domingo Ochavillo, Chief Fisheries Biologist, American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources

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Lessons from community co-management in the Western Pacific

Arielle Levine, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, San Diego State University

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Day 2 • Friday, September 5th

Innovation and proof of concept through exempted fishing permits

Electronic monitoring in the Pacific groundfish ITQ fishery

Dorothy Lowman, Chair, Pacific Fishery Management Council

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Halibut bycatch handling in the North Pacific flatfish fishery

John Gauvin, Fisheries Research Projects Director, Alaska Seafood Cooperative

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Cooperative research in practice

Cooperative research overview and NOAA’s Cooperative Research Working Group

Suzanne Kohin, NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center

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Blueline tilefish exempted fishing permit

Brian Cheuvront, Fishery Economist, South Atlantic Fishery Management Council

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The success of industry collaboration in U.S. sea scallop research

Cate O’Keefe, Research Associate, University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth, School for Marine Science and Technology

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