What can Europe learn from New Zealand’s experience with

commercial stakeholders engagement in fisheries

research and management?

Steven Mackinson

Cefas

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Involving stakeholders in research and management has not improved

the sustainability of NZ fisheries

Stakeholders participation in planning and doing research has improved the evidence-base for

management decisions

What can Europe learn from New Zealand’s experience with

commercial stakeholders engagement in fisheries

research and management?Steven Mackinson

Definitions

Evidence-Management system

InformationKnowledge &

Data

EvidenceUseful/ useable

knowledge & Data(given the

framework)

ManagementDecision-making

using the evidence

PlanningEvidence needs and how to get it

‘Contact points’

Expression of dissatisfaction

“Maximise Inclusive Governance”

Inclusive governance = Ecosystem approach

Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries – elements needed…• Involve all stakeholders in knowledge-sharing, decision-making and management.• Ensure coordination, consultation and cooperation, including joint decision-making,

between fisheries and other sectors • Recognize that management objectives are a matter of societal choice • Decentralize decision and action to the lowest appropriate level

What’s missing?

Engagement Model

NRLMG fit to Planning Process

Annual Planning Process The Ministry will provide a draft ARR to the

NRLMG & stakeholder forums

Draft National Inshore Fisheries Plan for Shellfish

Annual Operational Plan

Annual Review Report

Draft list of service needs is updated

Ministry Prioritisation

Delivery of Services

Share info The NRLMG will determine the design of relevant services for CRA/PHC as specified in the AOP (eg, research plan, regulatory advice and other services

as relevant)

Share info

Input

Input

NRLMG

The NRLMG will review this information to inform the NRLMG’s annual plan of services for CRA/

PHC stocksNOV

FEB

MAR

APR/MAY

JUN

The Ministry will provide NRLMG sector representatives with any feedback received on draft

services for CRA/PHC stocks from the rec & iwi

forums

Share info

Before Feb: NRLMG provides the Ministry with an annual plan of CRA/PHC specific services

NRLMG updates list of service priorities for CRA/PHC stocks – if required based on feedback from

rec & iwi forums

Design of Services Input

Delivery of Services Ministry and NRLMG undertake respective

services and report back to each other on service delivery.

The Ministry will provide NRLMG & Stakeholder forums with the AOP

NRLMG will determine/input into the design of CRA/PHC specific statutory services and other

services as relevant.

The Ministry will provide NRLMG sector representatives with any feedback received on

CRA/PHC performance in the ARR from the

rec & iwi forums

Contact points in NZ evidence management

system

Fishery Management

Planning

Innovators and Research

Providers

Planning Research

Reviewing Evidence

SelfManagement

Biggies that set context

1) Quota rights2) Cost recovery3) Harvest Strategy Standard4) Personalities 5) Organisation of industry6) Organisation of ministry and access to minister

What can the EU learn?

“How can the EU enable opportunities for co-management initiatives?”

Contact points in EU evidence-management system

Fishery Management

Planning

Innovators and

Research Providers

Reviewing Evidence

EU Biggy’s : CFP Trilogue

Parliament Commission Council of Ministers

1. Fishery Planning

National Fishery Plans = Long Term Management Plans

Key Elements of LTMPsSustainable fisheries (15)

Transparency management decisions (12) Stakeholder involvement (11)

Clarity of objectives (11)

Science (evidence) based (11)

Ecosystem based management (8)

Predictability of fishing opportunities (8)Using fishers knowledge (7)

Harvest Control Rules (2)

Management strategy evaluation (0)

Stability of TACs (0)

LTMP discussion 5th July 2012,

Brussels

Which bits might be transferable?

Governance ConditionsLeadership not controlPlan with statutory and and

non-stat objectives Performance criteria defined

- flexible time frame

1. Fishery Planning

2. Evidence review

Fisheries Assessment Working Groups

ICES Working Groups&

STECF

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ICES and STECF

ICES assessment WG

• Scientists only• Prepares the

scientific evidence-base

STECF• Reviews ICES

advice• Advises the

commission

ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the SeaSTECF: Scientific Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries

Which bits might be transferable?

WGprotocols – address conflict of interest in inclusiveness and independence

Research and Science Information Standards

ICES WGMARs….making a start!

2. Evidence review

3. Innovators & Providers of Research

Industry – led science initiatives

e.g. Rock lobster, Paua spatial catch and effort, Inshore self-sampling, Deepwater acoustics

Industry – led science initiatives

e.g. North Sea Survey, Fisheries-science partnerships, Scottish conservation credit scheme

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The North Sea Fishers’ Stock Survey

UK Fisheries Science Partnership

“the FSP initiative has transformed the relationship among the fishing industry, scientists and policy

makers and delivered better outcomes”

Barrie Deas NFFO Chief Executive

Knowledge for management

• Making it fit-for-purpose - saliency• Barriers to acceptance – legitimacy and credibility• Understanding perspectives • Can it be co-constructed?• Co-education for empowerment• Cooperation rather that parallelism – efficiency• Roles that play to strengths

Which bits might be transferable?

Long term research planning – e.g. 10 year plan

Joint identification of research needs and priorities – engagement model

Research and Science Information Standards – ‘making it count’

Encouraging efficiency and up-skilling

3. Innovators & Providers of Research

Learning by doing - 13 Case studiesCountry Proposed case study

UK Sustainability of brown crab stocks

Spain Mapping habitats and fishing grounds in Galicia

Germany Climate change and Wadden Sea brown shrimp

Denmark Management plans for herring in ICES IIIa

Norway A fisheries-based monitoring system for Norwegian coastal cod

Sweden Selective fisheries on whitefish in Lake Vattern

France Conservation and management of FAD tuna fisheries

Spain Conservation and management of FAD tuna fisheries

Italy Fishing effort and fish habitats in the Northern Adriatic Sea

Malta Implications of the 25 nm Maltese Fisheries Management Zone

Spain Ecology and fisheries impacts on NW Mediterranean red shrimp

Estonia Mapping Baltic Fisheries in support of Marine Spatial Planning

Netherlands Collaborative discard sampling in the Dutch flatfish fisheriesUK Long Term Management Plans and EAF in the North Sea

Alan Steer

Bridging the gap between science, stakeholders and

policy makersPhase 2 – Integration of evidence-based knowledge and its application to science and management of

fisheries and the marine environment (GAP2)

www.gap2.eu