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Sunday, January 27th, 2008: Terrascope Room

Projects to Work On

Spark Class—Claire and Tracey working on it

Letter Campaign

• Need to have something that people can look at—brochures? Poster?
  • Get copies of material from Blue Ocean Institute?
  • Make a pamphlet?
• Signature collection?
• Collect change for postage?
• Possible designs:
  • Petition format
  • One letter per person/choose who to send it to
  • Send large number of letters to small number of people
  • Spam everyone with
  • Enclose personal letter from constituents?
• Targets:
  • Coastal state senators/representatives
  • Important committee/subcommittee heads
    House—S&T, Energy Independence & Global Warming—Edward Markey
    Senate—Commerce, Science, & Transportation
  • Alex V. will find committees to contact
  • Must find out everyone's current position on this issue
    • Would let us personalize the letters
• What should the letters say?
  • Make specific requests?
  • Urge them to take the issue seriously?

Tasks:

• Create a letter
• Identify targets
• Must get space in Lobby 10—Alex J. will work on
• Work on identifying relevant legislation--Danielle

Must become some sort of entity--Todd

• Need better name
• Need a mailing address
• What is involved in becoming a student group?
  • Sponsored group?
• Would it be more useful to become some sort of lobbying group?

Wednesday, January 23,

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2008: Terrascope Room

1. Discussed alternatives to making a website. Why not do something entirely new and different??? Youtube, teen magazines, propose the making of a documentary; anything but yet another website.
2. Registered a class for Spark in which we would play the fish game with a group of high schoolers. Spark is March 8th. Later changes or additions can be made to Spark registration until Feb. 14th.

Sunday, January 13th,

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2008: Terrascope Room

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

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

Aquaculture

• Genetics—not 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

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Avoid producing non-new recommendations
Read Pew Oceans Commission report

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

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

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• Introduction/Summary Section
  • Website—link Website---link all aspects of problem together
• MPAs
  • Website—Types 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 PDF---Research more on 10% plan, pick number or choose criteria, or select specific areas
• International
  • Website—discuss 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 PDF---endorse signing Law of Sea
• Social Issues
  • Website—social 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 PDF---Address the impact on the fishing industry, options for displaced fishermen, cultural considerations for U.S. fishing communities
• U.S. Policy
  • Website—summarize Website--summarize U.S. fishing policy—lawspolicy--laws, regulations, etc.
• Education
  • Website—resources Website---resources for teachers?
• Technology
  • Website—current Website---current technology/how we know where the fish are
    • Boat tracking will go in IUU
  • PDF—more PDF---more work needed
• Management
  • Website—EBFM 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 assessments-use examples, put quotas in this section—discuss section--discuss subsidies in economics
  • PDF—ITQsPDF---ITQs, other quotas, etc., NOT taxes, subsidies (need more information)
• IUU Fishing (pending more research)
  • Website—how Website---how much (if any) in U.S. is IUU, U.S. consumption of IUU fish caught elsewhere, GPS tracking
• Aquaculture
  • Website—geneticsWebsite---genetics, problems, viable sources of food other than aquaculture, situation in China, discuss hatcheries, engineered fish
  • PDF—decide PDF---decide if we endorse it
• Climate
  • Website—more Website---more about fish, more specifics, ocean acidification, influx of fresh water, implications for aquaculture etc.
  • PDF—PleasePDF---Please, solve global warming!
• Environment
  • Website--Research specific issues more—get more--get more on freshwater & deep seas, effects of oil drilling/spills, cruise ships
  • PDF—PDF---(must first go through all current environmental legislation) Make specific recommendations
• Economics
  • PDF—costs PDF---costs of plans, justification
• What You Can Do
  • Website--Recycle, energy efficiency, etc.

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Problem statement: In general we felt the statement was OK, we just need a better explanation of said statement.

MPAs: we should work on

• gradations of protection and coordination with geography, technology, fishing practices, etc.

• concentric rings of protection levels?

• how to make them more appealing to fishermen

• effect on the fishing industry (aka will it collapse)

ALSO: we need to create steps/priorities within our plan (decide internally)

• international cooperation is idealistic; we should also figure out which plans can work solely locally

INTERNATIONAL:

• eco-labels: cost issues, company cooperation; lack of support/recognition of marine stewardship council

• treaty is mostly guidelines; specific rules with regards to 10% plan and flag hopping

• issues with realism of inducting RBAs; failures of RBAs; some RBAs are species specific..... ours is geographically based

• regional fleets: costs? previous uses?

• implementation of global tax scheme: international waters, collection, etc.

• incentives to join: political, past initiatives

• random stuff: whaling, other large marine species

• marine science council--> under RBAs

FISHING TECHNOLOGY:

• short and long term: need to be better defined and organized

• cost benefit analysis and talk to actual fishermen who are designing their own technologies

• Implementation: subsidies; ITQ bonuses; larger subsidies for small fisherman; tax breaks to big companies; net drag speech and net mesh size regulations; ban trawling in deep water and eventually phase it out

• goal: digital imaging on nets

EDUCATION:

• decrease demand

• look up best way to educate public

We voted and decided that education will now focus on telling us HOW we will say whatever we decide to say, and will not be explicitly included within a website, etc.

MANAGEMENT:

• input or output controls

• ecosystem based management: more thorough and complex

• quotas -

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• > use ITQs

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• -> issues with selling them or with allocation in general

• we need a major discussion on taxes and quotas ***BIG******

We also realized it is important to foster contacts soon, so while it is critical to get our information and website up and better, it is also critical to talk to people.....

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