Gorospe, K.

Blog: Using science and technology to manage fisheries in the Coral Triangle...Survey says?

2014

NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Coral Reef Ecosystem Division

What types of science and technology (S&T) innovations are currently being used or developed to improve our understanding of and ability to manage fisheries? And which of these technologies could be implemented in Southeast Asia and the Coral Triangle in order to promote sustainable management of their trans-boundary fisheries? These are the big-picture questions being asked by USAID-Regional Development Mission for Asia (RDMA), to which NOAA was able to respond. This blog is a brief summary of this effort. A full report, authored by Kelvin Gorospe of PIFSCs Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, Chris Elvidge of the NESDIS National Geophysical Data Center, as well as Keith Chanon, William Michaels, and Patrick Lynch of the National Marine Fisheries Services Office of Science and Technology, is in the process of being completed. In January 2014 a SandT core group,? composed of 36 science and technology experts across NOAA and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) convened to design a survey that would answer USAIDs questions. In August 2014, the survey was released via NOAAs International Affairs Council to all six of NOAAs fisheries science centers and other NOAA offices, requesting participation from NOAA employees with either: i) technical or managerial experience working on SandT innovations or (ii) working experience in international capacity building for fisheries management. In addition, the DOIs International Technical Assistance Program coordinated the survey for DOI. Overall, the survey collected input from a total of 63 participants (53 from NOAA and 9 from DOI). Within NOAA, all six fisheries science centers as well as NOAA Headquarters participated in the survey, with the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, and NOAA Headquarters having the most participating experts. The majority of participants self-identified their expertise as either data analysis (43%)? or field-based or remote data collection (41%),? with a minority coming from a laboratory-based setting (16%). The results of the survey are discussed."

CRCP Project ID 483; Project Title: Climate, Biodiversity and Fisheries in the Coral Triangle: Embracing the E in Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management; Principal Investigator: Rusty Brainard