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What can Europe learn from New Zealand’s experience with commercial stakeholders engagement in fisheries research and management? Steven Mackinson
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
=
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
