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MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø

International Workshop on Risk, Resilience and Recovery in Marine Estates

Awarded: NOK 49,366

The proposed workshop will be an interdisciplinary colloquium that brings together the leading researchers, managers and practitioners in terms of the marine estate. The purpose of the colloquium is to create new insights and understanding about how to manage the marine estate to effectively account for natural and anthropogenic risks and to support speedy recovery of stocks and habitats affected by overuse and misuse. The immediate need for such a colloquium is: (1) recent and innovative developments in resilience theory, risk assessment and management; (2) the critical importance to avoid fish stock collapses, promote fish recovery and to recover damaged marine habitats, locally and at global scale; and (3) opportunity for cross-learnings of methods and ‘tools’ from four, and very different, habitats and populations. The key focus of the inter-disciplinary colloquium will be to explore, evaluate and to select methods and approaches to better manage the marine estate for the speedy recovery of marine populations and their habitats following a negative shock, anthropogenic or not. By resilience, we mean ability of fish stocks to recover or ‘bounce back’ from negative natural shocks, coupled with mismanagement or no management at all. Reactions of stocks to alternative management instruments (quotas, effort controls, no management at all) will be studied, and the historical record reviewed on the basis of these results from the perspective of resilience mitigation (change in the likelihood of negative natural shocks) and resilience adaptation (reduction in the cumulative costs after negative natural shocks) through management actions. The influence of harvesters and communities and their effect on management decision-making, and vice versa, will also be studied as these factors may help to explain why management is sub-optimal and also why some fisheries have not been resilient to shocks.

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MARINFORSK-Marine ressurser og miljø