This symposium will examine approaches to integrate ecosystem considerations into fisheries management and discuss the successes and challenges of integration. By discussing critical issues like how we define system level changes, such as regime shifts, and stock-level changes in productivity (growth, mortality, recruitment) and their association with ecosystem indicators, we can begin to assess the best approaches to revise status quo management approaches.
Presentations will emphasize:
- Examples of ecosystem information products utilized in fisheries assessment and management
- Defining ecosystem indicators and ecosystem-stock relationships to inform management
- Approaches to account for ecosystem changes in assessment and management
- Accounting for regime shifts and productivity changes in biological reference points
- Lessons learned from integration of ecosystem information into the assessment and management process
Organizer: Laurel Smith, NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center, [email protected]
Co-organizers: Lisa Kerr, Jerelle Jesse
Supported by: NOAA Fisheries, University of Maine Gulf of Maine Research Institute