Economics and Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management in Chesapeake Bay Workshop
October 16-17, 2007
Hall of States
Washington, DC October 16th8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15 Welcome and Introductions (Rita Curtis, National Marine Fisheries Service) 9:15-9:45 Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management, a Federal Perspective
Steve Murawski, National Marine Fisheries Service
9:45-10:15 Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management in Chesapeake Bay
Ed Houde, Chesapeake Biological Lab
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00 Economic Challenge of EBFM in Chesapeake Bay
Jim Kirkley, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
11:00-11:30 Fisheries Production & Eutrophication
Denise Breitburg, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
11:30-12:00 A Bioeconomic Model of Water Quality & Fisheries
Matt Massey, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
12:00-1:00 Lunch (provided)
1:00-1:30 Oyster Bottom & Recreational Fisheries
Rob Hicks, College of William & Mary- invited 1:30-2:00 Economics and Ecopath with Ecosim
R. Sumaila, University of British Columbia - confirmed
2:00-2:30 Computable General Equilibrium Model, Alaskan Fisheries
John Tschirhart, University of Wyoming - confirmed
2:30-3:00 Portfolio Analysis and Chesapeake Bay Fisheries
Doug Lipton, University of Maryland - confirmed
Stephen Kasperski, University of Maryland -confirmed
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:30 Facilitated Group Discussion
Recommendations for approaches and models for economics of fisheries ecosystem interactions. (Jon Kramer or Jack Greer, Maryland Sea Grant to facilitate)
October 17
8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast8:30-9:00 The Aleutian Islands Fishery Ecosystem Plan and Process
Jennifer Sepez - Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS
9:00-9:30 Decision Support Models
David Tomberlin - NMFS/Santa Cruz
9:30-10:00 Marine reserves in the northeast US: public preferences and policy implications
Kristy Wallmo - National Marine Fisheries Service
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-10:45 Socioeconomics and the Ecosystem Approach to Management of Marine Resources
Jon Sutinen, University of Rhode Island
10:45-12:00 Continuation of facilitated group discussion. 12:00 Lunch (Provided) ADJOURN