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Bridging from single species tactical advice to ecosystem-based strategic advice Lesson 1: We should expect our models to fail, sometimes spectacularly.

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Page 1: Bridging from single species tactical advice to ecosystem-based strategic advice Lesson 1: We should expect our models to fail, sometimes spectacularly.

Bridging from single species tactical advice to ecosystem-

based strategic advice

Lesson 1: We should expect our models to fail, sometimes spectacularly so. But when we do we should take the opportunity to learn from the failure

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Traditional approach to fisheries management

• Management approach focuses on F via catch & effort regulation

– Stock assessments recommend B and F reference points

– SSC recommend ABC (<=OFL) that includes scientific uncertainty –tactical advice

– Council recommend ACT (<=ABC) that includes management uncertainty (implementation uncertainty)

• Stakeholders limited to

– Commercial fishery interests

– Managers (protecting societal interest)

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Approach to incorporating scientific uncertainty

• Select %ile of probability distribution

• Lack of data in many systems means that P* is becoming ordinal as cFlim

But this assumes that all stakeholders will want a maximal F

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Stakeholders can be responsible

Council recommendation• 10M Lbs quota• 3 fish bag limit• >24 in min size

Stakeholder choice• 8M Lbs quota• 2 fish bag limit• >28 in min size

How and why did recreational anglers, CCA, and NGOs become

more conservative than managers?

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Stakeholder-centered approach

Stakeholders propose objectives, options and performance

measures

Revise options and performance measuresModel development

and modification Stakeholders

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Recommendations

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Model Schematic

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Reproduction

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Model Structure• Abundance

• Mortality

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Parameter uncertainty

• Simulations drew from parameter distributions that reflected either– Scientific uncertainty– System uncertainty

• Recreational F – used 3 scenarios: either increasing, constant and decreasing scenarios with white noise variability (lognormal CV 10%)

• Ran multiple simulations to yield distributions of outcomes

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Lesson 2

• Don’t under-estimate the ability of stakeholders to understand complicated management questions and processes.

• Stakeholder involvement is critical at all stages of management– Objectives– Management alternatives– Evaluation

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EAM

Strategic advice: Management policies that support long term fishery and ecosystem sustainability

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What kind of EAM do you want?

Lesson 3: Understanding of EAM by managers and stakeholders is at a infant’s level - education is critical

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Case Study: Chesapeake Bay Fishery Ecosystem Plan

• Ecosystem boundaries– ~350 fishes described in Chesapeake Bay– Variation in life history causes boundary problems

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FEP: Boundary issues

• Biological– 2 Large marine ecosystems

• Human– 11 states– 3 multi-jurisdictional commissions– 2 regional management councils– 2 nations

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FEP: Simple strategic advice

• Patterns based on total removals• Empirical evidence

suggests ~250,000 mt may be sustainable

• 75,000 mt of non-menhaden harvest has been sustained

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Ecosystem dynamics

• Used to examine ecosystem context of single species management decisions– What would happen if the region achieved a goal of a

10-fold increase in oyster biomass?• Concerns

• Fisheries model in a “microscopic” ecosystem• My species wasn’t included• Are we modeling the tail or the dog?

• Modeling effort was not integrated into management

• Maryland Sea Grant asked to facilitate an ecosystem based process for the Chesapeake Bay

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Single-species ecosystem-based FMPs

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Single-species ecosystem-based reference points

• Striped bass

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Case study: Atlantic menhaden• Estuarine-dependent pelagic planktivore that provides

ecosystem-services – by filtering phytoplankton– important prey resource for charismatic piscivores

• Stock migrates along coast from Florida to Maine• Juveniles use estuarine nursery areas

• Stock assessment (2006) indicates neither stock is not overfished, nor experiencing overfishing.

• Yet concerns expressed over “localized” depletion in Chesapeake Bay

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Localized depletion?

• A spatially-restricted decline in abundance that impairs ecological function– Predator production– Nutrient export

• Otolith chemistry evidence suggests spatial structure

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Nutrient export services

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MS-models

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MS – models: effects of recruitment correlation on depletion

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Biophysical EM

Luo et al.

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Biophysical EM Sample output

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Lesson 3

• Defining the question is essential– What is localized depletion?

• Models with different outputs can’t be compared– What are the common metrics

• Reference points for non fishery endpoints are needed

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Case study: Regime shifts in the northwest Atlantic

• Dramatic shift from a groundfish-dominated community to an elasmobranch-dominated community

• Multiple explanatory hypotheses

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Winter skate length frequencies

Frisk et al. 2008

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Closed Ecosystem?

• Could broadscale movement of adult skate from Scotian Shelf be responsible

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Ecosystem change on the Scotian Shelf

Figures from Frank, 2003

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Lesson 4:

• Even the most successful EM may not forecast the future state of the ecosystem– CBO budget forecasts have all been wrong, but

that doesn’t mean that they haven’t been useful.

• Managing expectation is critical

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Recommendations• Given a goal, what approaches are feasible or useful?

– There needs to be a clear statement of what question is the model being used to ask

– Not all ecosystem questions require an EM• What comes first – goal or stakeholders?

– The stakeholders you have in the room will affect the stated goal or vision

– Engage stakeholders early and often• Strategic advice may not be of the form of control rules, e.g.,

ecosystem services– How then do EM feed into the management process,

particularly ?