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Ecosystem-based Fishery Management (EBFM): Background, Progress and Plans
166th Caribbean Fishery Management Council Regular Meeting
August 20-21, 2019 St. Croix, USVI
Outline
NOAA/NMFS EBFM Policy
Background: U.S. Caribbean EBFM Roadmap Implementation Plan
The Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP)
Applying Risk Assessment to Guide Management
Plans: CM Output Applications
Next Steps
The Conceptual Model (CM)-Foundation of the FEP
Progress: Developing Multiple CMs
“Stacking” CMs to Identify Common Components
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) strongly supports implementation of Ecosystem-Based
Fisheries Management (EBFM) to better inform and enable better decisions regarding trade-offs among and between
fisheries (commercial, recreational, and subsistence), aquaculture, protected species, biodiversity, and habitats. Recognizing the interconnectedness of these ecosystem components will help maintain resilient and productive
ecosystems (including the human communities on which they depend), even as they respond to climate, habitat, ecological,
and other environmental changes.
NOAA/NMFS EBFM POLICY STATEMENT
Structure/Process of FEPs
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EBFM Informal Working Team
• J.J. Cruz-Motta • Meaghan Faletti • Sarah Stephenson • Graciela García-Moliner • María Lopez • Kevin McCarthy • Alida Ortíz • Tauna Rankin • Bill Arnold • Tarsila Seara
• Orian Tzadik • Stacey Williams • Alejandro Acosta • John Christensen • Jennifer Lee • Marcos Hanke • Mandy Karnauskas • Adyan Rios • Miguel Rolón
(Yellow – Core team; White – Full team)
BUILDING EFFECTIVE FISHERY ECOSYSTEM PLANS: A REPORT FROM THE LENFEST FISHERY ECOSYSTEM
TASK FORCE
FISHERY ECOSYSTEM PLANS: A STAGE UPON WHICH FISHERY MANAGEMENT PLANS ACT
• FEPs provide a structured process for translating goals and principles into action.
• FEPs provide a coordinated way to simultaneously consider ecological, economical, and social goals.
• FEPs create a process of identifying and transparently addressing trade-offs.
• FEPs provide a framework to consider cumulative impacts.
FEPs Help Operationalize EBFM EBFM FEPs
Implement ecosystem-level planning Setting and prioritizing overarching goals for the fishery system based on a transparent, stakeholder-driven process
Advance our understanding of ecosystem processes Selecting and calculating indicators; inventorying threats and data needs
Prioritize vulnerabilities and risks of ecosystems and their components
Analyzing risks to meeting strategic objectives
Explore and address trade-offs within an ecosystem Setting performance measures, considering a wide range of alternative actions, and explicitly confronting the trade-offs inherent in selecting an alternative
Incorporating ecosystem considerations into management advice
Specifying an internally consistent set of policies that achieve fishery system goals across multiple fisheries
Maintain resilient ecosystems Adopting adaptive management - making decisions under uncertainty and systematically adjusting course based on new information
Coral Reef Ecosystem Conceptual Model Puerto Rico District Advisory Panel (Early Draft)
DAP
SSC
Other
Coastal Development
Invasive Species
Fish Stocks Climate Tourism ‘Indicator’
Stacking CMs, Identifying Common Features
Fish Stocks
Coastal Development
Identifying Inputs To and Outputs From ‘Indicators’
Coastal Development
”Policy” level, in that effectively addressing these issues requires participation by a broad range of agencies; the Council alone cannot address.
STT/STJ DAP is presently working at this level, as discussed during their presentation.
Application: “Stacked” model output, including contributions from other regulatory agencies,
allows mutual identification of focal issues to which combined effort can be applied.
Fish Stocks
Council level: Combined DAP/SSC development of a sub-model for fisheries, including semi-quantitative estimates of the strength of the relationship between any two components of the CM.
A Risk Assessment then can be conducted to determine the “risk” of failing to manage each relationship.
Application: Sub-model outputs guide Council planning and prioritization. The Council operates at the
sub-model level, using relationships (and their strengths) identified in the sub-model along with the estimate of the risk of failing to manage, to focus their management efforts.
Fishery Sub-Model Draft Developed by STT/STJ DAP
Next Steps August 2019: EBFM, DAP, SSC presentations; Council guidance Fall 2019: Establish EBFM AP? Combined DAP/SSC/ AP Meeting: STT/STJ
DAP meeting with identified agencies (date not yet chosen); STT/STJ DAP meeting to refine Ecosystem CM and assign scores, based on outcome from agency meeting; Joint DAP/SSC/AP meeting to initiate development of respective Fishery CMs
Council convenes additional groups to develop Ecosystem CMs;
Lenfest proposal work begins (PIs = JJ, Stacey, Tarsila) in concert with data acquisition/analysis/visualization efforts of Council liaison Meaghan Faletti
December 2019: Update of outcomes from Fall activities; Council guidance;
Establish FEP writing team (Interdisciplinary Plan Team)
Next Steps (Cont.)
Winter 2020: DAPs “finalize” Fishery CMs; SSC initiates risk assessment process for each Fishery CM
AP analyzes Ecosystem CM stacks; IPT develops outline for FEP; NMFS HQ EBFM meeting
April 2020: Updates to Council; Council review of FEP outline; Council direction Summer 2020: Initiate preparation of FEP; SSC completes Fishery CM sub-model
risk assessments August 2020: Council updates, including presentation on risk assessment outcomes;
Council direction