Fisheries Extension Network… · Web viewThe first national Fisheries Extension meeting was held at the Sea Turtle Inn in Jacksonville Beach, Florida from October 15‐18, 2006

2013

Fisheries Extension Network

WELCOME TO THE MEETING!

The first national Fisheries Extension meeting was held at the Sea Turtle Inn in Jacksonville Beach, Florida from October 15‐18, 2006. The goal of that meeting was for seafood‐related extension agents from all regions to gather together, to get to know each other, to share experience and skills, to learn from each other, and to identify opportunities and mechanisms to support collaborations that allow Sea Grant to make a bigger difference in fisheries and seafood. As we approach the seven‐year mark since that meeting, it is important that we come together to discuss our progress towards achieving the national goals and to identify new opportunities or future directions for extension programs.

We all make use of our seas and oceans. Traditional uses; transport, fishing and tourism now sit alongside more recent uses such as aquaculture, tidal, current and wind energy production. These emerging uses are continuing to expand and it is becoming increasingly challenging to effectively coordinate sometimes competing uses through current management approaches. Understanding the influence of land-use on marine and coastal habitats continues to emerge as a vital component of sustaining marine and coastal resources, as does the potential impacts of a changing climate. Traditional barriers between marine ecologists, fisheries biologists, social scientists and economists are beginning to break down, and the distinction between applied and basic research is changing. These ongoing trends arise, in part, from an increasing awareness of the deep influence of people on the functioning of all marine ecosystems, an increased focus on spatial and temporal scale, and a renewed assessment of the role of biodiversity in the sustainability of ecosystem goods and services upon which we all depend. Fisheries Extension will continue to play a significant role.

The sustainable management, protection and restoration of the fragile marine and coastal ecosystem will be achieved through focused research, public education and outreach that holistically consider environmental, anthropogenic and societal goals. We, as extension agents are ideally situated to convene decision-makers and provide those that depend on and manage our marine resources research-based information that supports sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.

I look forward to a productive meeting and continued networking with my extension colleagues.

Kind regards,

Dr. Ken La ValleyChair, 2013 Fisheries Extension Network Meeting

2013 FISHERIES EXTENSION NETWORK MEETING- 2

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Kenneth J. La Valley Gabriela Bradt Erik Chapman NH Sea Grant NH Sea Grant NH Sea [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Michael Chambers Carrie Pomeroy Sara MirabilioNH Sea Grant CA Sea Grant NC Sea [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Torie Baker Sunny Rice Flaxen ConwayAK Sea Grant AK Sea Grant OR Sea [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Julie Anderson Carrie Culver Rochelle SturtevantLS Sea Grant CA Sea Grant National Sea Grant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Peter Granger Dana Morse Bob BaconWA Sea Grant ME Sea Grant SC Sea [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Rebecca Arenson Gene Kim Wan Jean LeeNational Sea Grant Office National Sea Grant Office National Sea Grant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

FISHEERIES EXTENSION NETWORK MEETING LOGO DESIGN

The logo for the meeting was developed and donated by Riley Young-Morse. Riley manages the Ocean Data Products group at the Gulf of ME Research Institute (GMRI) and also serves as an individual contributor to the team as project manager and UI designer. Prior to joining GMRI, Riley was the Product Development Manager for the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS). At GoMOOS, Riley was a key member of the development staff; designing user interfaces and working with scientists, web designers and IT staff to produce web-delivered information products as well as maintaining content on GoMOOS.org and other partner websites.


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KEY OBJECTIVES

Meeting Objectives

To increase awareness and understanding of emerging fisheries issues;

To have a dialogue about the common and critical issues all regions face; and

To identify opportunities, approaches, and incentives to create and maintain network collaborations.

AGENDA

Monday, April 29, 2013

6:30 - 8:00 pm Registration and Reception (Del Mar Room)

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

7:30 - 8:30 am Quick Start Breakfast (provided)8:30 - 9:00 am Opening Remarks: K. La Valley, NH Sea Grant

9:00 - 10:00 amPlenary Session- Setting the Landscape: Developing and Delivering Extension Programs in Modern Times(Paul Anderson & Chris Dewees)

10:00 - 10:30 am Break

10:30 - 12:30 pmChallenges and Changing Landscape of Fisheries Extension and Valuation of Our Work (C. Pomeroy, M. Hall-Arber & P. Granger)

12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch (provided)

1:30 - 2:30 pm Keynote Speaker: Paul Greenberg, author of “Four Fish”

2:30 - 5:00 pmConcurrent Breakout Sessions (breaks as needed)a) Recreational Fisheries (S. Mirabilio)b) Direct Marketing (E. Chapman)c) Marine Debris and Invasive Species (G. Bradt)

6:30 - 8:00 pm Dinner (Shell Room)Wednesday, May 1, 2013

7:00 - 8:15 am Quick Start Breakfast (provided)


8:15 - 8:45 am Opening Remarks: K. La Valley & C. Pomeroy9:00 - 12:00 pm Field Trip12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch (provided)

1:00 - 2:30 pmConcurrent Breakout Session 1 (breaks as needed) Aquaculture (M. Chambers, G. Kim) Climate Change and Fisheries (T. Johnson, E. Chapman) Seafood Market Maker (B. Bacon)

2:30 - 4:00 pmConcurrent Breakout Session 2 (breaks as needed) Fuel and Operational Efficiency (T. Johnson) FishBiz (S. Rice)

4:00 - 4:30 pm Wrap-up and Next Steps: K. La Valley

FIELD TRIP INFORMATION

We will be touring the Shelter Island area. We will start at the San Diego Yacht Club, where we will meet up with three (and ideally four) community members with a mix of knowledge and experience in local recreational and commercial fisheries and related research. We will split in to 3-4 groups (one led by each of those folks), and will spend time hearing from them on local fisheries and/or fisheries research at three sites within a 10- to 15-minute walk of the Yacht Club: the Yacht Club itself, Fishermen's Landing, an area that primarily hosts charter and other recreational fishing/boating operations and Driscoll's Wharf, where several commercial fishermen tie up and/or deliver their catch.

Our local hosts include:

Louie Zimm, who has been involved in commercial and recreational fisheries and serves on the Pacific Fishery Management Council, has served as captain and mate of research vessels for UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and is very active in the San Diego boating community.

Lyall Bellquist, an SIO doctoral student and biologist, is engaged in a very successful collaborative fisheries research project with sport fishermen in the region to tag and monitor those species' growth and movement patterns and help determine their stock status.

Dave Rudie, owner of Catalina Offshore Products and a former commercial fisherman, also is actively involved in fisheries research and policy processes.

Pete Halmay may also join us in the Shelter Island area. Pete is a commercial fisherman from the region.


Details on the following Sessions and Activities for the FEN meeting are below:

Marine Debris and Invasive Species Fish Biz - Working with Fishermen in Business Management Improving Engagement with the Recreational Fishing Community Sea Grant Programming to Improving Fishing Vessel Fuel Efficiency Fishing Communities, Observations and Planning for Climate Change Sea Grant and Direct Marketing Lessons Learned and Best Practices for Sea Grant Extension Programming

Related to Marketing Maker Sea Grant and Aquaculture Challenges for Today’s Fisheries Extension Specialist

MARINE DEBRIS AND INVASIVE SPECIES

Session organizers: Gabby Bradt ([email protected]), NH Sea Grant/UNH Cooperative Extension and Julie Anderson, Louisiana Sea Grant

Challenges:Marine Debris and Invasive species issues are coming to a forefront in many Sea Grant programs across the country. The extent of the Marine Debris problem- specifically derelict fishing gear (DFG)- and its economic and environmental impacts is not fully known. Significant challenges in dealing with DFG include legal hurdles, ghost fishing, economic losses to the fishermen as well as education, awareness and acceptance that a problem exists. Marine debris in the form of derelict fishing gear (DFG) is particularly challenging with regard to removal efforts as each state has different laws and regulations pertaining how, when and who can legally touch abandoned gear. In order to get a better understanding of what the different states are doing and how they are engaging the fishing communities in prevention and removal efforts this session will address:

Marine Debris Session content: ● Legal concerns● Acceptance by user groups (commercial guys)● Disaster debris (tsunamis, hurricanes)● Sharing by attendees their experience and questions.

Invasive Session content: This session will address:● Collaborating with state and regional invasive panels● Sharing by attendees their experience and

questions


FISHBIZ: WORKING WITH FISHERMEN IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Session Organizers: Sunny Rice, AK Sea Grant ([email protected]), and Flaxen Conway, OR Sea Grant

Challenge: Commercial fishermen around the nation face new financial challenges in managing and planning for the business success of their operations. These challenges include fisheries management systems changes, product competition on a global scale, and limited access to capital. In many cases, the old ways of financial management of a fishing business are no longer adequate.

Extension Challenge: Sea Grant agents are often called upon to assist producers as an ongoing service to individuals, through organized programs like Trade Adjustment Assistance, or in response to entire fleets facing environmental or economic crises.

Solution: There are many “FishBiz” tools and techniques that have already been tried with varying degrees of success throughout the Sea Grant network, but many agents are unaware of what other programs have accomplished. This meeting presents an opportunity to share resources, experiences, and techniques and to explore the possibilities of creating additional tools with nationwide applicability.

Session Objectives: ● Learn what Sea Grant programs around the country are currently doing in this area● Understand how other agents approach the subject, both with individual clients and

programmatically● Get inspired for how our respective programs could be instigated or improved● Acquaint ourselves with other programs and tools outside the realm of commercial

fishing ● Lay the groundwork for creating a consolidated list of fishing business management

tools available within Sea Grant ● Explore partnerships for creating additional business tools with nationwide applicability

IMPROVING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE RECREATIONAL FISHING COMMUNITY

Session Organizer: Sara Mirabilio, North Carolina Sea Grant ([email protected])

The Challenge - All the state programs come at the issue of recreational fishing from many different directions. In the Great Lakes, fishing is about 90 percent recreational and on lake species. In contrast, following the commercial net ban implementation in 1995, Florida Sea Grant also does significant extension programming related to recreational fishing issues but on marine reef species. And yet further, there are programs, such as North Carolina, that are just beginning to increase their focus on recreational fishing, having largely been commercial fishing focused. Common Ground - Species vary, but a lot of the overarching issues probably are similar. As a network we need to back up and start with the basics of a national fisheries extension conversation on the subject. NOAA Fisheries held their first real meeting on the subject only in


April 2010. Through professionally facilitated dialogue, their summit participants brought focus to the issues of greatest concern – data, allocation, representation and trust. These same issues cross-cut all stage Sea Grant programs. Solution - Formulate an “action agenda.” The current Safe & Sustainable Seafood Supply focus team plan does not even mention the word recreational. The break-out objective would be to develop a white paper that details how to integrate the value of recreational fishing into the National Sea Grant Office implementation strategy. The paper would recognize the uniqueness of recreational fisheries as compared to commercial, even charter / head boat, and suggest how extension agents could work to leverage those unique aspects to the industry’s best economic advantage. Before the close of the break-out session, the goal would be to flesh out an outline for a white paper, emphasizing overarching action strategies. Post meeting, a writing team would finish up the white paper. A side appendix might also include a summary of the “important recreational issues” broken out by region. Session speakers would address a couple of key topics:

1 Ways state programs have improved data collection, particularly social and economic data.

2 Ways state programs have fostered better representation of recreational anglers on SG advisory bodies and as project partners.

3 Ways state programs have engaged the recreational community in cooperative research opportunities.

4 Lessons learned from state programs having gone through the transition from commercial to recreational extension program dominance.

FISHING VESSEL FUEL EFFICIENCY

Session Organizers – Terry Johnson, AK Sea Grant ([email protected])and Erik Chapman, NH Sea Grant.

Challenge: Improving fuel efficiency continues to be an important area of interest for fishermen who work to reduce their costs in the face of rising fuel prices. In many cases, there are few sources of accurate and reliable information on what works and what doesn’t work for fishermen to save money on fuel. Sea Grant can play an important role in providing this information to fishing communities.

Session Overview:This session will outline recent work that has been done y network members on methods, technology and approaches to improving fishing vessel fuel efficiency. It will also include some discussion of and sharing of materials about ways that vessel owners can improve efficiency through operation and maintenance of existing vessels without extensive refit. Speakers currently committed are Erik Chapman reporting on the NH Sea Grant GreenFit project, and Terry Johnson with some thoughts on operations and maintenance and the fishing vessel energy self-audit project.


CLIMATE CHANGE AND FISHERIES

Session Organizers – Erik Chapman NH Sea Grant ([email protected]), Terry Johnson, AK SG.

Challenge: Adaptation to the effects of climate change remains a focus for NOAA and other government agencies. Fishermen are observing changes in their catch in response to observed changes in water temperature, yet there is little discussion about ways to adapt to these changes.

The concept originated with a small paper Terry Johnson wrote on the subject from an Alaska perspective. He had difficulty finding work on the topic by others in the network and Erik suggested that those who work with the problem come together to share their results and outline ways to work cooperatively. Discussion will center around climate related changes reported by fishermen, adaptation measures and strategies fishermen already are employing, and approaches to ensuring fishermen understand the problem and start planning for more dramatic changes to come.

DIRECT MARKETING

Session Organizers – Sunny Rice, AK SG ([email protected]), Peter Granger, WA SG, Erik Chapman NH Sea Grant, Stephanie Showalter-Otts, SG Law Center.

Challenges: Fishermen and fishing communities are adapting to and participating in management measures that target ambitious goals for conservation and sustainability of fish stocks. One way fishermen can adapt to these new measures is to seek alternative, value-added markets for their products outside traditional value-chains. Alternative marketing, such as community supported fisheries (CSFs), off-the-dock sales, and online sales, among others, are an approach that fishermen are exploring to direct more money to boats.. Alternative marketing has also helped fishermen organize, enabling them to participate in cooperative research and management and produce fine scale economic data that has not been readily available before. These efforts have gained traction in fishing communities as they also achieve a range of other social and environmental goals. As a result, interest in these forms of marketing from fishermen, fishery scientists, managers and fishing communities has been widespread. Despite its potential, there are a variety of technical barriers, risks, and overarching questions about the long-term viability of alternative marketing. In particular, these business models require that fishing communities develop skills and expertise in new areas such as processing, distribution, handling, pricing, and marketing of seafood. In many cases, permits, licenses, insurance and careful business planning are required. For fishermen and others in fishing communities, this is often a brand new skill-set and business setting, and developing businesses without these capacities runs the risk of losing money and missing business opportunities; an outcome that many fishing communities simply.


Session Overview

Efforts from the Sea Grant Network related to Direct Marketing will be highlighted, followed by a discussion on candidate projects that the Network could move forward.

Objective: Familiarize each other with efforts around the nation

● Sea Grant and Direct Marketing - Overview (Erik Chapman) ● Web-based tools - Louisiana Sea Grant (Rusty Gaude)● A Broader look at Community Supported Fisheries (Carrie Pomeroy)● Community Supported Fisheries - Summary of Recommendations From the National

Summit, 2012 (Erik Chapman)● Direct Marketing manual - (Terry Johnson or Sunny Rice)● A San Diego Direct Marketing Example - (Pete Halmay)

Objective: Discussion of potential projects and organizing work groups

A discussion of proposed projects will be facilitated and work groups formed based on the interest within the group. Possible projects that have emerged from previous discussions include:

● Revise Alaska Direct Marketing Handbook - make more broadly relevant.

● Set up an annual meeting for those involved with direct marketing efforts that link to improving resiliency of fishing operations and fishing communities

● Set-up Network of CSF Organizers that is linked to a network of Extension Specialists and other groups that provide resources for CSFs and direct marketers.

● Presentation of SG role in fishing communities -importance of DM to fishing community sustainability...the important Role SG is playing....Video?

MARKET MAKER

Session Organizer – Robert H. Bacon SC SG ([email protected] ) , Darlene Knipe, Chuck Adams, FL SG

Challenge: Many Sea Grant Extension workers are involved with helping stakeholders leverage Market Maker for the benefit of their seafood businesses. Increased communication, and sharing of expertise, lessons-learned and best practices could improve our programming in this area.

Session Overview: The general plan is to invite one of the Market Maker principals, hopefully Darlene Knipe, to make a presentation on Market Maker and engage in discussion with us. I will be engaging Chuck Adams, Fl Sea Grant, who has been working on Seafood Market Maker, and some of the other Sea Grant folks who represent Market Maker states, to set-up a discussion aimed at getting to how we (Sea Grant) and they (Market Maker) can work in collaboration to improve Market Maker has a platform for seafood sales. For example, one complaint I’ve heard is that Market Maker is great at getting seafood sellers on the web, but not so great at attracting buyers. How can that be improved?


AQUACULTURE

Session Organizers – Dana Morse, ME SG ([email protected]), Michael Chambers, NH Sea Grant

Challenge: Supporting sustainable aquaculture practices continues to be a priority for Sea Grant funding and programming. However, many challenges are presented to developing programing in this area that are shared throughout the network.

Session Overview: In this session, organizers hope to discuss common issues and challenges and to promote improved networking and sharing of resources that will improve the Sea Grant capacity to serve communities interested in developing sustainable aquaculture practices


CHALLENGES AND CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF FISHERIES EXTENSION AND VALUATION OF OUR WORK

Session organizer: Pete Granger, Washington Sea Grant; Carrie Pomeroy, California Sea Grant; Madeline Hall-Arber, MIT Sea Grant; Chuck Adams, Florida Sea Grant; Paula Cullenberg, Alaska Sea Grant; and Gabe Dunham, NSGO

Challenge: Across the country, Sea Grant programs are heavily involved in fisheries issues and problems to be solved. These various programs enhance the economy, improve quality of life, and sustain the environment in our nation’s coastal and Great Lakes states. A climate of increasing fiscal pressure on the state and federal level means it is more important than ever to quantify economic and social impacts associated with these Sea Grant activities.Return on investment measures and economic benefits for Sea Grant activities are now incorporated into national reporting requirements. Sea Grant program managers are wrestling with how best to approach measuring these impacts in the fisheries area as well as other program elements. Fisheries agents, at the delivery end of programs, are ill-equipped to assess and quantify their impacts.

Resources: recently completed “Report on the Economic Impact Assessment Methods Inventory for the Sea Grant Network”, commissioned by the National Sea Grant Office.


KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Paul Greenberg

Paul Greenberg is the author of the James Beard Award winning New York Times bestseller Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Book Review, and Opinion Page. He has also written for National Geographic Magazine, GQ, The Times (of London), Vogue, and many other publications. In the last five years he has been both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow.

A guest and commentator on public radio programs including Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Mr. Greenberg is also a fiction writer. His 2002 novel, Leaving Katya, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Greenberg also lectures

widely on issues of ocean sustainability at venues that range from The United States Supreme Court to The Monterey Bay Aquarium to The Culinary Institute of America. He has lectured and reported extensively overseas with assignments in Russia, Ukraine, France, the Caucasus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, the West Bank/Gaza, and many other locations around the world.


PLENARY SPEAKERS

Paul Anderson – Maine Sea Grant Director/Marine Extension Program Leader

Before Paul joined Sea Grant in 1999, he spent 10 years working for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, first as the chief microbiologist and then as the director of the Public Health Division. He has been involved in all aspects of seafood safety and environmental monitoring. At Sea Grant, he is the director of the program, and leader of the Marine Extension Team, a group of nine Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension staff members who are based all

along the Maine coast. He is also serving as interim research coordinator in 2009-2010. Paul is involved in seve+++ral state-wide initiatives including alternative ocean energy, climate change adaptation, and restoration of Atlantic salmon. Paul and his wife Jan live in Winterport, Maine where they enjoy their six children, organic gardening, at “Harmony Farm.” In his free time, Paul plays guitar and mandolin in the Maine-based band, Blue Northern.

Christopher M. Dewees - Marine Fisheries Specialist Emeritus

Dr. Christopher M. Dewees served as the statewide Marine Fisheries Specialist from 1972–2007. He was also the Sea Grant Associate Director for Extension from 1992-2001.

Dewees focused his research and education activities on fisheries management topics including restricted access, individual transferable quotas (ITQs), technology transfer, salmon restoration and issues related to specific fisheries.

During his career, many of the 36 peer-reviewed articles and over 70 reports he has authored or co-authored were on studies of commercial and recreational fisheries in California, Alaska, British Columbia and New Zealand. Dewees helped the state implement the Marine Life Management Act by conducting the peer-review process and co-editing the 2001 publication, California's Living Marine Resources: A Status Report.

He spent three sabbatical leaves in New Zealand, the most recent being in 2006 when he organized a study tour for 20 fishing community leaders from the United States.


SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)Northeast Cooperative Research Partners ProgramThe Northeast Regional Office and the Northeast Fisheries Science Center of NOAA Fisheries developed the Cooperative Research Partners Program to formalize and expand collaborative research among New England’s commercial fishing industry, marine science, and fishery management communities. The goal of this initiative is to enhance the data upon which fishery management decisions

are made, as well as to facilitate communication and collaboration. Through this initiative, partners are collaborating with the New England Fishery Management Council in setting research priorities to meet management and fishing industry needs.

NOAA Fisheries │ Northeast Fisheries Science Center166 Water St. │ Woods Hole, MA USA 02543

www.nefsc.noaa.gov

New Hampshire Sea Grant College ProgramOperating under the guidelines of, and in partnership with, the National Sea Grant Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NH Sea Grant is a federally funded program of marine research, education and extension. These programs help provide the knowledge base for the wise use, development, and conservation of marine and coastal resources of New Hampshire, northern New England, and the nation.

New Hampshire Sea Grant College ProgramChase Ocean Engineering Laboratory │ University of New Hampshire

24 Colovos Rd. │ Durham, NH 03824 USAwww.seagrant.unh.edu

National Sea Grant College ProgramNOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program is located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The National Sea Grant College Program works closely with the 32 state Sea Grant programs located in every coastal and Great Lakes state and Puerto Rico. These programs serve as the core of a dynamic, national university-based network of over 300 institutions involving more than 3,000 scientists, engineers, educators, students and outreach experts. This network

works on a variety of topics vital to human and environmental health—topics such as water quality coastal hazards and biotechnology. Through their research, education and outreach activities, Sea Grant has helped position the United States as the world leader in marine research and the sustainable development of coastal resources. Sea Grant activities exist at the nexus of local, state, national and sometimes international interests. In this way, local needs receive national attention, and national commitments are fulfilled at the local level.

National Sea Grant College Program1315 East-West Hwy │ Silver Spring, MD 20910

http://www.seagrant.noaa.gov/index.html


http://www.seagrant.noaa.gov/index.html

http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/

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