Department of Fisheries Oceanography / SMAST seminar - February 28, 2018 - Kate Masury
When: Wednesday,
February 28, 2018
2:00 PM
-
3:00 PM
Where: New Bedford New Bedford, MA
Description: Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Beyond the binary: what does a systems-based approach to sustaining wild seafood look like?
Kate Masury
Program Director
Eating with the Ecosystem
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
SMAST-E rm. 101/102
836 South Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, MA
Abstract: Fisheries are one of the trickiest “wicked problems” in the food system. Hard to count and still harder to control, wild fish stocks continue to confound embattled fishermen, regulators, and conservationists, with seafood lovers caught in a confusing crossfire of contradictory information about what to eat and what to avoid. For too long, sustainable seafood marketing campaigns have been dominated by a single simple assumption: that there are two categories of seafood – sustainable and unsustainable – and that by purchasing more of the former and less of the latter, consumers can help move all species to the “sustainable” side of the ledger. But this binary division and the unidirectional, linear path of influence from consumer to fish that underpins this model mask the true complexity and dynamicism of wild ecosystems and cripple consumers’ ability to engage more meaningfully in the work of caring for them. In our discussion, we will outline a new sustainable seafood model for the Anthropocene grounded in the emerging regionality of food systems with insights from ecosystem science. With New England as a case study, we will consider three questions: (1) what emergent properties of the socio-ecological fisheries system should guide our food system planning efforts, and how can we measure and manage them?, (2) how can we replace end-of-the-pipeline, carrot-and-stick models for consumer involvement with bi-directional, self-sustaining positive feedback loops between consumers and wild seafood ecosystems?, and (3) what does sustainability mean in a changing environment, and how should this inform the goals of a systems-based approach to sustaining wild seafood?
To access the live broadcasting, go to https://echo360.org/ and click on
"Alternate login"
you will have to login as smast@umassd.edu with the password: smastumassd
After login you will have to click on ALL CLASSES (MAR 700-01 - DEOS seminar or MAR 700-02 - DFO Seminar) and click on the green LIVE streaming
To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted titple
For more information, please contact cfox@umassd.edu
Beyond the binary: what does a systems-based approach to sustaining wild seafood look like?
Kate Masury
Program Director
Eating with the Ecosystem
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
SMAST-E rm. 101/102
836 South Rodney French Boulevard, New Bedford, MA
Abstract: Fisheries are one of the trickiest “wicked problems” in the food system. Hard to count and still harder to control, wild fish stocks continue to confound embattled fishermen, regulators, and conservationists, with seafood lovers caught in a confusing crossfire of contradictory information about what to eat and what to avoid. For too long, sustainable seafood marketing campaigns have been dominated by a single simple assumption: that there are two categories of seafood – sustainable and unsustainable – and that by purchasing more of the former and less of the latter, consumers can help move all species to the “sustainable” side of the ledger. But this binary division and the unidirectional, linear path of influence from consumer to fish that underpins this model mask the true complexity and dynamicism of wild ecosystems and cripple consumers’ ability to engage more meaningfully in the work of caring for them. In our discussion, we will outline a new sustainable seafood model for the Anthropocene grounded in the emerging regionality of food systems with insights from ecosystem science. With New England as a case study, we will consider three questions: (1) what emergent properties of the socio-ecological fisheries system should guide our food system planning efforts, and how can we measure and manage them?, (2) how can we replace end-of-the-pipeline, carrot-and-stick models for consumer involvement with bi-directional, self-sustaining positive feedback loops between consumers and wild seafood ecosystems?, and (3) what does sustainability mean in a changing environment, and how should this inform the goals of a systems-based approach to sustaining wild seafood?
To access the live broadcasting, go to https://echo360.org/ and click on
"Alternate login"
you will have to login as smast@umassd.edu with the password: smastumassd
After login you will have to click on ALL CLASSES (MAR 700-01 - DEOS seminar or MAR 700-02 - DFO Seminar) and click on the green LIVE streaming
To view a video of an SMAST seminar (post-October 1, 2014), go to http://www.umassd.edu/smast/newsandevents/seminarseries/ and click on a highlighted titple
For more information, please contact cfox@umassd.edu
Contact: > See Description for contact information
Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series