Start-up Meeting Presentations

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Start-up Meeting Presentations
INCOFISH WP 7

• Before and after WP meeting

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Simple Indicators for Sustainable Fisheries
INCOFISH WP 7

• Project Objectives

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Outline

• WP Goal
• List of WP members
• Brief introduction to indicators concept
• WP objectives and deliverables
• WP milestones and time table
• Open discussion

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WP 7 Goal

• Identify, apply, and evaluate the use of
  indicators that have the potential to end
  overfishing

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WP 7 Members are

• Joe Ryan
• Mauricio Castrejón
• Graham Watkins
• Birane Samb
• Rainer Froese
• Amanda Stern-Pirlot
• Michael Ballón
• Carlos Benites-Rodriguez
• Lynne Shannon
• Vachira Lheknim
• Graham Pierce
• Cristina Pita

CABAL S.A., Nicaragua CDF CDF CRODT,
Senegal IfM-GEOMAR IfM-GEOMAR IMARPE,
Peru IMARPE MCM DEAT, So. Africa PSU,
Thailand UNIABDN, Scotland UNIABDN
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Simple indicators

• Fisheries management is not working
• Top-down control
• Informed solely by info. from fisheries biology
• Complex, costly, largely incomprehensible
• Simple indicators
• Reflect condition of fishery
• Rely on low-cost observations
• Can be accepted and applied by stakeholders and
  public
• Conform to Pressure, State, Response framework

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Let them spawn!

• Indicator Percentage of mature fish in catch
  (target 100)
• Response Fish ruler demarcating minimum length
  for mature fish

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PSR Framework
PRESSURE Recruitment Overfishing (the taking of
immature fish)
STATE Percent mature fish in catch tool
fish-ruler
RESPONSE Let Them Spawn! awareness
campaign Tool fish-ruler
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WP 7 Objectives

• Identify suitable indicators
• Establish parameters needed for indicators for
  all relevant species/fisheries
• Test management by indicators with stakeholders
  and public
• Analyze progress and problems

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WP 7 Deliverables

• Review of existing indicators and selection of
  suitable, simple indicators (Month 7)
• Database to make available the parameters needed
  for application of indicators (Month 13)
• Web-tool to assist in the application of
  indicators
• (Month 19)
• Test of indicators with real-world fisheries and
  stakeholdersfinal report (Month 34)
• The Big 5

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WP 7 Milestones

• 1st Workshop (now)
• 2nd Workshop (Month 20)

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WP7 Meeting Outcomes
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In attendance

• Mauricio Castrejón, CDF
• Vachira Lheknim, PSU
• Christina Pita, UNIABDN
• Graham Pierce, UNIABDN
• Henn Ojaveer, MEI
• Carlos Benites, IMARPE
• Michael Ballón, IMARPE
• Rainer Froese, IfM-GEOMAR
• Amanda Stern-Pirlot, IfM-GEOMAR

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Agreed-upon criteria

• Indicators should be
• Observable by stakeholders, either directly or
  through a transparent process
• Understandable
• Acceptable by fishers and public at large
• Efficient and within economic resources for
  research on a sustained basis
• Related to management and have responding
  management measures (PSR framework)
• Valide.g. accurately reflecting the state of the
  resource

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Selected Indicators
Indicator Indicator Required Data Possible responses
1 of mature fish in catch (goal 100) Mean length in pop. or mixed fishery Lm (also eventually length where 90-100 are mature) length frequency of catch Promote capture of mature fish through Fish ruler and info sheet for fish traders
2 of optimum size in catch (goal 100) Length-frequencies from catch or surveys Length-weight relationship for species Same as above
3 mega spawners in catch ( size above optimum length plus 10) (goal 0) Mean max. length in pop or mixed fishery Length-frequencies from catch and surveys MPAs Campaign Let Megaspawners live Only catch cohorts after 1st and before 2nd spawning
4 Bycatch in total catch Possibly charismatic spp. in bycatch Bycatch biomass by fishery Awareness/ propaganda campaign
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Probable target fisheries
Galapagos Lobsters, Sea Cucumbers
Peru Hake, Lumptail Searobin, Peruvian Rock Seabass, Peruvian Banded Croaker
Scotland Haddock, Whiting, Nephrops, Squid, Some Portuguese species?
Thailand Prawns, some fish
Nicaragua Littoral demersals, Lobsters?
Baltic Maybe Zander, Perch, Herring?
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Next Steps

• Each member to assemble data necessary to apply
  indicators to his/her fisheries for web portal
• (L-F, maturity, bycatch)
• Deadline Month 13 (Next March/April)
• Start thinking about response implementation
• Keep in touch with other WPs re their
  indicatorscan we draw correlations?

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General Remarks
Easy part is first The harder part is in
implementation most of the concerns among WP
members and others concerned approaches to using
indicators in mgmt.
We will mostly collaborate with other WP
indicator-related objectives in relation to and
combination with our selected indicators and
overfishing were not an indicator clearinghouse.