Project Posters - Canadian Fisheries Research Network

CFRN 2nd AGM
2e AGA du RCRP
December 6-8, 2011
Du 6 au 8 décembre 2011
St. John’s, Newfoundland
St. John’s, Terre-Neuve
Project Posters
Affiches des projets
Enhanced Fisheries Knowledge for Sustainability
NSERC Canadian Capture Fisheries Research Network
Rob Stephenson UNB / DFO, Stacey Paul DFO, Susan Thompson UNB, Tony Charles SMU, Omer Chouinard UdeM, Barb Neis MUN, Ratana Chuenpagdee
MUN, Evelyn Pinkerton SFU, Melanie Wiber UNB, Dan Lane UofO, Dave Gillis DFO, Marc Clemens DFO, Christian Brun MFU, John Sutcliffe CCPFH, Marc Allain CFRN, David Decker FFAW, Dan Edwards CCPFH / Area ‘A’ Crab Association, Stefan Leslie DFO, Jean Landry DFO, Lisa Setterington
DFO, Sharmane Allen DFO, Paul Foley MUN, Courtenay Parlee UNB, Eric Angel SFU, Ashleen Benson SFU, Rachel Long SMU
The Changing Landscape of Management
Objectives of This Project
Fisheries and other activities will be subjected to 1) increasingly demanding management plans, 2) marketplace audit (e.g. certification), and 3) evaluation of cumulative effects in an area (ecosystem evaluation). Identify the information, knowledge, and methods that will be required for a more comprehensive evaluation of Canadian fisheries against a broader definition of sustainability
All point to the need for a broader definition of sustainability than is being used at present. A common set of objectives is required.
Identify what knowledge for the evolving management regime can best be provided from the fishery
Diverse Aspects of Sustainability
An Interdisciplinary Team
 This project involves a unique group from academia, industry and government with social science and natural science expertise.
Ecological
Social
 We are explicitly exploring and combining the perspectives of diverse disciplines
Economic
A Report Card in Progress
Key Elements/Objectives
(to be determined further)
Institutional/
governance
Performance
Indicators
Fishery case
study
Fishery case
study
Conservation of ecosystem health and
productivity (productivity biodiversity,
habitat)
Economic viability and profitability of
fleets/individual enterprises including
economic yield, employment, capacity
Social/cultural acceptability, including
community health, viability and wellbeing,
traditions and heritage, equity, identity, quality
of life
Research Collaboration to:
 Articulate the broader definition of sustainability that is emerging for Canadian fisheries
 Identify the range of elements/potential objectives of a sustainable fishery as articulated or implied in the Canadian management regime.
 Develop a set of criteria with key performance indicators (‘report card’) for a comprehensive, holistic evaluation of Canadian fisheries
 Apply the report card to fishery case studies to demonstrate proof of concept
 Identify new information required from fisheries for future evaluation, and explore best practices for generating that information
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Governance and institutional effectiveness
including Shared Stewardship, inclusion of
community values, power, participatory and
adaptive management
Others
Increasing Social Science Research
Recognising the importance of the ‘human dimension’ to all Network projects, we are preparing an application to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for parallel funding that would enhance research and investigate the impact of network research on policy
Connec2vity and stock structure of American lobster Homarus americanus in Atlan2c Canada Graduate students (in order of projects): Marthe Larsen Haarr1, Brady Quinn1, Guðjón Már Sigurðsson1, Kris&n Dinning1, Bryan Morse1, Laura Benestan2 Principal inves2gators (lead PI and then alphabe&cally): Rémy RocheZe1, Louis Bernatchez2, Joël Chassé3, Michel Comeau4, Spencer Greenwood5, Peter Lawton6, Patrick Ouellet3, Bernard Sainte-­‐Marie3, John Tremblay7 1Biology, University of New Brunswick, Saint John. NB. 2Biologie, Université Laval, QC. 3Maurice Lamontagne Ins'tute, DFO, Mont-­‐Joli, QC. 4DFO Gulf Region, Moncton, NB. 5Atlan'c Veterinary College, UPEI. 6St. Andrews Biological Sta'on, DFO, NB. 7Bedford Ins'tute of Oceanography, DFO, Dartmouth, NS. Industry partners: Fish Food and Allied Workers Union, Guysborough County Inshore Fishermen’s Associa&on, Associa&on des pêcheurs propriétaires des Iles de la Madeleine, Regroupement des pêcheurs professionnels du sud de la Gaspésie, Mari&me Fishermen’s Union, LFA 30 Fishermen’s Associa&on, Richmond County Fishermen’s Associa&on, Homarus Inc. Eastern Shore Fishermen’s Protec&ve Associa&on, Fishermen and Scien&sts Research Society, LFA34 Management Board, Fundy North Fishermen’s Associa&on, Gulf Nova Sco&a Fishermen’s Coali&on, Northumberland Fishermen’s Associa&on, Prince County Fishermen’s Associa&on, LFA 27 Management Board. Rela&ve abundance of berried females caught per trap during spring/summer fishery 2011 Inves&gate gene&c structure using >5000 SNP (Single-­‐Nucleo&de Polymorphism) gene&c markers: these include neutral markers that may reveal popula&on structure and non-­‐neutral markers that may reveal popula&on structure and local adapta&on. Are there gene2cally differen2ated lobster stocks in Atlan2c Canada? 30-­‐50 lobsters will be analysed from each of 20 locali&es in phase 1 of this project Abundance, size, egg development and clutch quality recorded for all berried females caught by fishermen every 50-­‐75km once a week throughout the fishing season Is there spa2al varia2on in egg and larval produc2on? The NSERC Canadian Capture Fisheries Research Network “The Lobster Node” 5-­‐year research ini&a&ve How does larval dispersal connect lobster in different areas? Unique tri-­‐par&te collabora&on between government, academia and industry. 1. Fishermen iden&fied Connec'vity and Stock Structure as cri&cal unanswered ques&ons. 2. University and Government scien&sts proposed research strategies. 3. Research plan co-­‐constructed by all three par&es Ultrasonic tracking to evaluate the movement poten&al of juvenile and adult lobsters Model lobster movement in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence using a 30 year tagging data set Develop a conceptual model of the poten&al role of lobster benthic movement to connec&vity between areas in Atlan&c Canada, considering lobster biology and physical parameters such as water temperature and bathymetry How does movement of benthic phase lobsters contribute to connec2vity? Does the model successfully predict larval supply? Outline of geographic area included in model Large-­‐scale bio-­‐physical model to es&mate poten&al connec&vity of lobsters in different regions through larval driY Improved biological inputs: spa&al variability in larval produc&on, &me of hatching, development rates, survival, and behaviour of larvae Develop monitoring tools and protocols to test predic&ons made by the model regarding spa&al paZerns of larval supply Quan&fy seZler & juvenile lobster densi&es in cobble and mud habitats Es&mate patchiness of seZlement at different scales: between collectors (few meters), within sites (tens of meters), between sites (hundred meters) and between areas (tens of kilometres) Determine how long postlarvae can delay seZlement in absence of quality seZlement substrate, and assess the fitness cost of delayed seZlement Inves&gate the effect of wind driven currents, temperature, predators and conspecifics on seZlement paZerns Acknowledgments: This research is made possible by an unprecedented collabora&on between fishermen, academics and government scien&sts, and the contribu&on of people too numerous to list here. The following have been instrumental in the development and realiza&on of the project: Marc Allain as project facilitator, PaZy King and the FSRS team; David Decker, Jackie Baker and the FFAW; Mario Desraspe and the APPIM; O'Neil Clou&er, Jean Côté and the RPPSG; Mar&n Mallet and Dounia Daoud (Homarus Inc.); Ginny Boudreau and the GCIFA; Kevin Squires and the MFU. Michelle Theriault (Pe&t-­‐de-­‐Grat Marine Centre) produced larvae at cold temperatures for laboratory experiments, Julien GaudeZe (DFO SABS) enabled sampling of berried females with Grand Manan fishermen and Angelica Silva (DFO BIO) made significant contribu&ons to the design of the berried female sampling protocol. This project is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the New Brunswick Innova&on Founda&on. 6
Project 2.2
Reducing Seabed Impacts of Mobile Fishing Gears
Summary:
This project is addressing research questions pertaining to the ecological
impact of mobile fishing gears. It focuses on fisheries, regions, fleets, and
gear types that are relevant to Canada’s East and West coast fishing
industries. It brings together several universities, government institutes, and
industry partners from across Canada over a period of five-years into a
collaborative approach.
This project uniquely benefits from a network structure because it requires
the expertise from several fields, including fishing gear design, ecological
modelling, and habitat mapping. More specifically, it brings together several
sectors, including fish harvesters, seafood producers, DFO scientists, and
university researchers.
Project Objectives:
Research Area 1 will design and evaluate various innovations in
harvesting technology that could reduce the contact area and/or
mechanical stress exerted on the seabed by bottom trawls and
dredges. The approach will use a combination of numerical
simulation, physical modelling in flume tanks, and comparative
fishing trials at sea.
Research Area 2 will characterize and map the epibenthic megafauna in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence (NGSL) together with
environmental parameters into a Habitat Suitability Model.
When completed, the methods developed could be expanded to
the continental shelf.
Project partners:
Industry partners
FFAW
AMIK
APPME
FRAPP
BC Seafood Alliance
Canadian Sablefish Association
ACPG
Academic partners
Memorial University
Université du Québec à Rimouski
Simon Fraser University
Merinov
Government partners
DFO – Newfoundland Region
DFO – Québec Region
DFO – Pacific Region
Research Area 3 will develop a spatially explicit decision analysis
(SEDA) method and software for assigning expected losses
associated with open/close decisions to individual grid cells.
Once completed, the SEDA will be applied to B.C. coast fisheries
in analyses of individual fishery decisions and decisions that span
fishery sectors (i.e., integrated analyses).
Research Proposal: An additional project is proposed involving
the collection and analysis of fishermen’s traditional knowledge
of the impact of trawling on epibenthic species