Making decisions for fisheries conservation and management requires consideration of multiple, potentially competing objectives, accounting for and potentially reducing uncertainty that might hinder the decision, and using the best available science. Decision analysis (i.e., structured decision making and adaptive management) provides a framework for decision makers to work with stakeholders and rightsholders to collaboratively define a decision problem, identify their values and objectives, determine a potential list of actions to implement, predict the effect of actions on the suite of objectives, and evaluate the tradeoffs and risks associated with implementing particular actions. The purpose of this session is to bring together researchers and managers who are conducting decision analysis for fisheries problems to share their case studies, discuss methodological advances and needs, and describe opportunities for further inclusion of a diversity of values and knowledge systems.
Organizer: Kelly Robinson, USGS, Georgia Coop Unit, UGA, [email protected]
Co-organizer: Shane Flinn