Mid-Atlantic Catch Shares Workshop
Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council • March 16-18, 2010 • Williamsburg, VA
The Mid-Atlantic Catch Shares Workshop was planned by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council and the Fisheries Forum, in cooperation with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and NOAA Fisheries, as an educational opportunity for Council and Commission members and staff.
Workshop Objectives
- To learn from and interact with a diverse group of panelists with experience in catch share programs
- To gain an understanding for the management potential of catch share programs as a management tool as well as the range of concerns associated with their design and use in management
- To anticipate future management challenges and opportunities associated with catch share programs at the Council, ASMFC, and state levels
Workshop context and leadership remarks
Background and context
Overview of Mid-Atlantic Council Fisheries
Dan Furlong, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council
Introduction to catch share programs
Mark Holliday, Director, NOAA Fisheries Office of Policy
Closing remarks
Where do we go from here?
Rick Robins, Chair, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council
Rotating breakout sessions
Economic outcomes of catch share fisheries: Sustaining fishing communities
Alaska’s crab dependent communities and the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands catch share program
Steve Minor, Executive Director, North Pacific Crab Association
A history of the commercial red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico
David Krebs, President, Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance
Catch Shares: The Alaskan experience
Jessica Gharrett, Restricted Access Management Program, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region
Catch shares as a biological management tool: Intersections between fisheries
Supporting accountability in British Columbia’s groundfish fishery
Howard McElderry, Archipelago Marine Research
Balancing catch share optimization with bycatch minimization
John Henderschedt, Council Member, North Pacific Fishery Management Council
British Columbia’s multispecies groundfish fishery: A fisherman’s perspective
Wes Erikson, Fisherman, British Columbia
Allocation
History of South Atlantic catch shares development process
Kate Quigley, Economist, South Atlantic Fishery Management Council
Allocation and North Pacific catch share programs
Joe Childers, President, United Fishermen of Alaska
Allocation and Gulf of Mexico catch share programs
Bob Gill, Vice Chair, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
Markets and long term distribution of shares
Effects on communities of catch shares: It’s all in the design
Ed Backus, Vice President, Ecotrust
Markets for catch shares
Corbett Grainger, Doctoral Candidate, University of California Santa Barbara
New Zealand’s catch share program
Mike Arbuckle, Senior Fisheries Specialist, World Bank
Plenary sessions
Regional case studies
Alaska halibut and sablefish IFQ program
Jane DiCosimo, Senior Plan Coordinator, North Pacific Fishery Management Council
Gulf of Mexico red snapper IFQ program
Bob Gill, Vice Chair, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
Australia’s catch share programs
David Galeano, Senior Economist, Australian Fisheries Management Authority
Catch shares and recreational fisheries
Proposed catch share plans for the Pacific Halibut charter sector in Alaska
Jane DiCosimo, Senior Plan Coordinator, North Pacific Fishery Management Council
Perspectives on the intersection between recreational fisheries and commercial catch share program
Greg Sutter, Alaska halibut charter captain
Rick Bellavance, Rhode Island charter captain and President, Rhode Island Charter and Party Boat Association
Dick Brame, Atlantic States Fisheries Director, Coastal Conservation Association
Data collection and monitoring: The lynchpin for accountability and credibility
NMFS catch share accounting and quota management for Alaska fisheries
Jessica Gharrett, Restricted Access Management Program, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region
Catch monitoring systems in British Columbia groundfish fisheries
Howard McElderry, Archipelago Marine Research
Catch shares, governance, and interjurisdictional fisheries
Virginia’s black seabass catch share program
Jack Travelstead, Chief of Fisheries Management, Virginia Marine Resources Commission
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