Thank you to everyone who participated in the live chat on July 30th!
A recording of the live chat is available here:
Funded by Sea Grant, researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Washington are examining the impact of the switch to ITQ management on fishing behavior and other socio-economic dimensions of the West Coast Groundfish fishery given the weak stock challenge, including the formation of risk pools, gear switching, spatial and temporal fishing patterns, and discarding.
Researchers and collaborators on this project presented their work to date in videos, which are posted online. Interested parties were encouraged to post their questions and comments on the online discussion board.
We held a live chat discussion on Wednesday, July 30th from 4-6 pm Pacific Time.
The goals of posting the videos, creating an online discussion forum and hosting a live chat about this research were to discuss this work with stakeholders involved in the West Coast Groundfish fishery including industry, NGOs, managers and others. During the live chat we addressed questions from the discussion board and had a productive, interactive discussion about the project. We hope these online formats allowed for broadest participation. This workshop was open to anyone.
The videos and discussion board will remain online and can be accessed here: http://wcgf.weebly.com/presentations-and-discussion.html
A recording of the live chat is available above and is also posted here: http://sfg.msi.ucsb.edu/current-projects/us-west-coast
Researchers and collaborators on this project presented their work to date in videos, which are posted online. Interested parties were encouraged to post their questions and comments on the online discussion board.
We held a live chat discussion on Wednesday, July 30th from 4-6 pm Pacific Time.
The goals of posting the videos, creating an online discussion forum and hosting a live chat about this research were to discuss this work with stakeholders involved in the West Coast Groundfish fishery including industry, NGOs, managers and others. During the live chat we addressed questions from the discussion board and had a productive, interactive discussion about the project. We hope these online formats allowed for broadest participation. This workshop was open to anyone.
The videos and discussion board will remain online and can be accessed here: http://wcgf.weebly.com/presentations-and-discussion.html
A recording of the live chat is available above and is also posted here: http://sfg.msi.ucsb.edu/current-projects/us-west-coast
Project Background
In January 2011, the West Coast Groundfish fishery transitioned to a multispecies Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) system, a form of catch-shares in which fishermen own shares of the total allowable catch for all target species and threatened bycatch species. This fishery presents an interesting example of the weak stock hurdle facing many fisheries around the world: species such as yelloweye and canary rockfish have been historically overfished, and since they grow and reproduce very slowly, they have extremely low annual catch limits which can be exceeded in a single accidental haul. In this project, funded by Sea Grant, researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of Washington are examining the impact of the switch to ITQ management on fishing behavior and other socio-economic dimensions of the fishery given the weak stock challenge, including the formation of risk pools, gear switching, spatial and temporal fishing patterns, and discarding.