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Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Planning & Activities

Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Planning & Activities. February 2004. Chesapeake Bay Program “C2K” GOAL. C2K Commitments: By 2005, Develop Multi-species FMPs By 2007, Implement Multi-species FMPs & Ecosystem Approach to Management

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Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Planning & Activities

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  1. Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management:Planning & Activities February 2004

  2. Chesapeake Bay Program “C2K” GOAL • C2K Commitments: • By 2005, Develop Multi-species FMPs • By 2007, Implement Multi-species FMPs & Ecosystem • Approach to Management • Living Resources Protection and Restoration • “Restore, enhance and protect the finfish, • shellfish and other living resources, their • habitats and ecological relationships to • sustain all fisheries andprovide for a • balanced ecosystem.” Courtesy E. Houde

  3. Presentation Outline • Multispecies background & management process to date • Fisheries Ecosystem Plan – status and process • CBP 2000 commitments for fisheries management – general plan • Open Discussion – NO Action needed today!

  4. “Prospects for Multispecies Fisheries Management in Chesapeake Bay” • Fishery-independent surveys • Predator-prey relationships • Multispecies assessments & models • Evaluate estuarine habitats and the potential value of protected areas • Incorporate multispecies and ecosystem models as management tools

  5. “Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management” • Assess the extent to which ecosystem principles are applied and recommend how best to incorporate into future management • Develop a Fisheries Ecosystem Plan (FEP)

  6. Fishery Management in Chesapeake Bay Example

  7. Management Jurisdictions

  8. Current Management Process Striped Bass Bluefish Weakfish Menhaden

  9. Future Management Process Striped Bass Bluefish Weakfish Spot/Croaker Menhaden Bay Anchovy Large Zooplankton

  10. Fisheries Ecosystem Plan - GOAL• The FEP will serve as an umbrella document to support ecosystem-based fishery management approaches in Chesapeake Bay. • It will recommend actions to implement such approaches for Bay-resident and coastal species. • It will recommend research to enhance knowledge of the ecosystem and its fisheries in support of long-term management objectives.

  11. FEP STATUS • FEP Technical Advisory Panel • multi-institutional; Baywide • Experts in various fields (statistics, ecology, fisheries, economics, etc) • Full document underwent an internal panel review • STAC review • Comments incorporated and sent to editor for final layout • Layout ~complete - will have preliminary publication at Fisheries Research Symposium (February 25-26, 2004) • Final publication as American Fisheries Society Publication

  12. Is it Practical and Feasible? To the extent possible, the FEP must be compatible with the broader goals of the Chesapeake Bay Program The FEP is meant to be a practical plan. It strives tobuild on present FMPs and institutional structures. As such, it allows immediate implementation of some recommended actions in FMP amendments and incremental implementation of actions requiring policy decisions or further research Courtesy E. Houde

  13. Seek Endorsement and Implementation Request endorsement by CBP Recommend near-term actions to be taken by FMPC-WG Develop a long-term plan for broader implementation (link with ASMFC Implementation Plan?) Coordinate planning and actions with Bay and regional jurisdictions (institutions and agencies)

  14. Ecosystem-based Management Plan Development • Fisheries Steering Committee has identified target species (Atlantic menhaden, striped bass, blue crab, oyster, and alosa) • General format/outline for plans to follow based upon ‘Developing Ecosystem-based FMP’ section of FEP • Plan Development Teams being developed

  15. Ecosystem Modeling (EwE, MSVPA) Fisheries Steering Committee (FMP Development) FEP Research (Fisheries Research Program, Oxford, SeaGrant) Multiple-species Monitoring (CHESFIMS, ChesMMAP)

  16. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." • The Lorax is an ecological warning that still rings true today amidst the dangers of clear-cutting, pollution, and disregard for the earth's environment. • The now remorseful Once-ler tells the story himself: long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba-loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the beauty of the Truffula Tree tufts, he greedily chops them down to produce and mass-market Thneeds. As the trees swiftly disappear and the denizens leave for greener pastures, the fuzzy yellow Lorax (who speaks for the trees "for the trees have no tongues") repeatedly warns the Once-ler, but his words of wisdom are for naught. Finally the Lorax extricates himself from the scorched earth, leaving only a rock engraved "UNLESS." • The Once-ler has saved a single Truffula Tree seed! Our fate now rests in the hands of a caring child, who becomes our last chance for a clean, green future.

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