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See attached notes on:
1. Minutes of the meeting
2. Topics we're putting on Website
3. Topics for PDF (and basically RESEARCH topics)

Todd's Notes

Discussion of management

  • Could be expanded
  • More EBFM, problem focus
  • Effect of fishing on fish population—other than making fish population smaller

Aquaculture

  • Genetics—not enough evidence, must get better research
  • Sources must be improved
  • Establish how proposal could work in the United States
  • More thorough discussion of problems
  • Compare aquaculture with other food sources

Climate Change

  • Need more focus on how it impacts rest of plan
  • Need more focus on fish
  • Do our own projections?

Avoid producing non-new recommendations
Read Pew Oceans Commission report

  • U.S. laws are also good—Magnuson-Stevens, environmental laws

Environment

  • Expand into deep ocean
  • Industrial pollution
  • More case studies
  • Oil drilling effects? Governance?
  • Oil spills?
  • Cruise ship pollution?
  • Split up section

Disproportionate attention issue—look more into technology/economics to counterbalance environment

Economics

  • Can be quantified
  • Tax ideas?
  • People interested in label concept
    • UROP idea
    • Talk to grocery stores/restaurants
  • Effects of regulation on fishing industry
Content of Documents to be Produced
  • Introduction/Summary Section
    • Website—link all aspects of problem together
  • MPAs
    • Website—Types of MPA-reserve vs. protected area, U.S. reserves, benefits of MPA, arguments against them, interview fishermen, show nonregulated areas and how they could be improved with regulations, protected areas vs. reserves advantages and disadvantages, ecotourism
    • PDF—Research more on 10% plan, pick number or choose criteria, or select specific areas
  • International
    • Website—discuss what's out there, discuss Law of the Sea, Straddling fish stocks agreement, etc., review international nature of fishing industry, discuss flag hopping, Japanese whaling issue
    • PDF—endorse signing Law of Sea
  • Social Issues
    • Website—social implications of fishing, overfishing, stopping fishing, fishing culture/cultural importance of fish, fishing history, interviews with fishermen, put in some numbers to provide quantitative legitimacy, sports fishing, tourism, case studies on Japan/China
    • PDF—Address the impact on the fishing industry, options for displaced fishermen, cultural considerations for U.S. fishing communities
  • U.S. Policy
    • Website—summarize U.S. fishing policy—laws, regulations, etc.
  • Education
    • Website—resources for teachers?
  • Technology
    • Website—current technology/how we know where the fish are
      • Boat tracking will go in IUU
    • PDF—more work needed
  • Management
    • Website—EBFM needs more work (why single stock is inadequate, fishing down the food chain), GPS deemphasize (look at other options), problems with IUU fishing, time and area closures, explanation of stock assessments—use examples, put quotas in this section—discuss subsidies in economics
    • PDF—ITQs, other quotas, etc., NOT taxes, subsidies (need more information)
  • IUU Fishing (pending more research)
    • Website—how much (if any) in U.S. is IUU, U.S. consumption of IUU fish caught elsewhere, GPS tracking
  • Aquaculture
    • Website—genetics, problems, viable sources of food other than aquaculture, situation in China, discuss hatcheries, engineered fish
    • PDF—decide if we endorse it
  • Climate
    • Website—more about fish, more specifics, ocean acidification, influx of fresh water, implications for aquaculture etc.
    • PDF—Please, solve global warming!
  • Environment
    • Website--Research specific issues more—get more on freshwater & deep seas, effects of oil drilling/spills, cruise ships
    • PDF—(must first go through all current environmental legislation) Make specific recommendations
  • Economics
    • PDF—costs of plans, justification
  • What You Can Do
    • Website--Recycle, energy efficiency, etc.

Wednesday, January 9, 2007: Terrascope Room

Todd's Notes

Meeting Opens

What should we do?

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  • ecosystem based management: more thorough and complex
  • quotas --> use ITQs --> issues with selling them or with allocation in general

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