Progress Reports: FY 2012, FY 2011, FY 2010
In our experience of working in CCSBT, IATTC, and the WCPFC, fisheries
decision makers often express a desire for better information to help them
make defensible decisions. While the information required to evaluate management
measures with the WCPFC stock assessments is now publicly available, few
Commission members have the capacity to run MULTIFAN-CL, and therefore there
is an information gap.
Funding will be used to develop, optimize, and distribute a user-friendly
interface that will allow the fisheries decision makers and their staff
to evaluate potential management measures using the current MULTIFAN-CL
stock assessments, while shielding the user from some of the technical aspects
of MULTIFAN-CL. The application will be downloaded from the internet and
will incorporate the most recent assessments. It will allow the user to
specify a set of management measures (catch or effort limits) and will produce
results in graphical and tabular form. Discussions with WCPFC members, and
others with expertise in fisheries management and decision making, will
help inform both the types of measures that managers might wish to evaluate,
and the outputs of interest. Training will be offered to fisheries decision
makers.
The project will last two years with a simple prototype developed in the
first year, refined in the second year to a fully functioning application
including features such as "Help" and "Automatic Updates"
(e.g. to ensure that the most recent assessment models are being used).
Funding will support 0.5 FTE of a Fisheries IT Specialist and contribute
to MULTIFAN-CL development for two years.
At the request of the PFRP Steering Committee project researchers will also
work on a model with monthly time steps and 1 degree square spatial resolution.
This will allow evaluations of time-area closures, country-specific EEZ
actions, and high-seas pocket measures. Presentation of the product will
be made at WesPac (Council + SSC), PIRO and PIFSC, and additionally the
PFRP PI meeting.
The objectives of this project are:
The project will cover two years, with the first being used to develop a prototype for testing, and the second year to develop a fully-functioning version after liaison with fisheries decision-makers.
There are four main components to the work to be completed over two years.
Project funding will focus on the second and third components in this proposal.
Funding for this project to be available late 2009.
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Principal Investigators |
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Dr. Simon Hoyle |
Dr. Shelton Harley |
Mr. Fabrice Bouye |
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