Department of Fisheries Oceanography - Dr. Timothy Werner
When: Wednesday,
February 27, 2019
2:30 PM
-
3:30 PM
Where: > See description for location
Description: The School for Marine Science and Technology
Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Seminar Announcement
"Up-dates on Research and Policy Priorities for Mitigating Marine Mammal Bycatch in Commercial Fisheries and Aquaculture"
Dr. Timothy B. Werner
Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life
New England Aquarium
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
SMAST East Rooms 101/102
836 S. Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford
Abstract:
Avoiding and mitigating bycatch (incidental hooking, entanglement, or entrapment) of marine mammals can involve several fisheries management and operational strategies. These include the establishment of permanent or temporary area closures, modifying fishing practices, changing the type of gear used, reducing fishing effort, facilitating release post-capture, or implementing economic-based approaches such as product boycotts, financing fishermen to cease fishing, or pursuing industry practices that maximize
profits. It is rare that any of these have been shown to reverse bycatch to sustainable levels, especially across the entire geographic range for a species or subpopulation. For the North Atlantic right whale (NARW), changing pot fisheries to incorporate whale-release ropes or eliminating ropes in the water column altogether (“ropeless fishing”) offer potential solutions provided they are backed by regulatory support and economic incentives. With this and other bycatch problems, there exist huge challenges of facilitating fisheries to change their practices even when effective techniques have been identified and implementing solutions in small-scale non-industrial fisheries that occupy a large segment of the fisheries sector in developing countries. At the policy level, the FAO has accepted the role of addressing the issue at the international level, the U.S. Government is pursuing restrictions on importing
seafood originating from fisheries that do not adequately manage marine mammal bycatch, and in the aquaculture sector there is increasing recognition that its expansion into offshore waters will require strategies to reduce the biological and economic risk from whale entanglements. Experience in coming up with solutions to the bycatch of NARWs and other marine mammals worldwide help to identify the most promising strategies to instruct the achievement of major national and international objectives.
About Dr. Werner:
Dr. Werner is a marine zoologist, fisheries scientist, and conservation biologist, whose research currently focuses on identifying bycatch solutions for marine wildlife that also support the livelihoods of fishermen and coastal communities. His appointments include Fisheries Scientist on the US NMFS
Pelagic Longline Take Reduction Team, Research Associate at UMASS-Boston,
member of the Expert Panel for the International Whaling Commission’s Bycatch Mitigation Initiative, and Board Member of the Ropeless Fishing Consortium. He holds a M.S. in Marine Zoology from the University of Maryland, a M.S. in Business Management from Stanford University where he was a Sloan Fellow, and a PhD from Boston University. His research projects involve collaborations
with fishermen, engineers, marine biologists, and others to evaluate novel fishing practices, and his research group at the NEAq also maintains the Global Bycatch Exchange (bycatch.org).
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To access the live broadcasting, go to https://echo360.org/directLogin 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 https://www.umassd.edu/smast/events/seminar-series/ and click on a highlighted title.
For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu
Department of Fisheries Oceanography
Seminar Announcement
"Up-dates on Research and Policy Priorities for Mitigating Marine Mammal Bycatch in Commercial Fisheries and Aquaculture"
Dr. Timothy B. Werner
Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life
New England Aquarium
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
SMAST East Rooms 101/102
836 S. Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford
Abstract:
Avoiding and mitigating bycatch (incidental hooking, entanglement, or entrapment) of marine mammals can involve several fisheries management and operational strategies. These include the establishment of permanent or temporary area closures, modifying fishing practices, changing the type of gear used, reducing fishing effort, facilitating release post-capture, or implementing economic-based approaches such as product boycotts, financing fishermen to cease fishing, or pursuing industry practices that maximize
profits. It is rare that any of these have been shown to reverse bycatch to sustainable levels, especially across the entire geographic range for a species or subpopulation. For the North Atlantic right whale (NARW), changing pot fisheries to incorporate whale-release ropes or eliminating ropes in the water column altogether (“ropeless fishing”) offer potential solutions provided they are backed by regulatory support and economic incentives. With this and other bycatch problems, there exist huge challenges of facilitating fisheries to change their practices even when effective techniques have been identified and implementing solutions in small-scale non-industrial fisheries that occupy a large segment of the fisheries sector in developing countries. At the policy level, the FAO has accepted the role of addressing the issue at the international level, the U.S. Government is pursuing restrictions on importing
seafood originating from fisheries that do not adequately manage marine mammal bycatch, and in the aquaculture sector there is increasing recognition that its expansion into offshore waters will require strategies to reduce the biological and economic risk from whale entanglements. Experience in coming up with solutions to the bycatch of NARWs and other marine mammals worldwide help to identify the most promising strategies to instruct the achievement of major national and international objectives.
About Dr. Werner:
Dr. Werner is a marine zoologist, fisheries scientist, and conservation biologist, whose research currently focuses on identifying bycatch solutions for marine wildlife that also support the livelihoods of fishermen and coastal communities. His appointments include Fisheries Scientist on the US NMFS
Pelagic Longline Take Reduction Team, Research Associate at UMASS-Boston,
member of the Expert Panel for the International Whaling Commission’s Bycatch Mitigation Initiative, and Board Member of the Ropeless Fishing Consortium. He holds a M.S. in Marine Zoology from the University of Maryland, a M.S. in Business Management from Stanford University where he was a Sloan Fellow, and a PhD from Boston University. His research projects involve collaborations
with fishermen, engineers, marine biologists, and others to evaluate novel fishing practices, and his research group at the NEAq also maintains the Global Bycatch Exchange (bycatch.org).
********************************************************************************
To access the live broadcasting, go to https://echo360.org/directLogin 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 https://www.umassd.edu/smast/events/seminar-series/ and click on a highlighted title.
For additional information, please contact Sue Silva at s1silva@umassd.edu
Contact: > See Description for contact information
Topical Areas: School for Marine Sciences and Technology, SMAST Seminar Series