Status of major stocks (esp. GB & GOM) | |
Scientific Basis for Biomass Goals (a case of shifting baselines?) | |
Spatial Patterns of Effort & Distribution & effectiveness of MPAs | |
Ecosystem-level issues, adaptive management, and knowledge gaps |
Closed areas integral to species recoveries in some areas | |
Reserve effects demonstrated on the | |
“sessile spectrum” | |
Unequivocal evidence of fishing effects | |
Displaced effort important for some species – there may be a “fatal attraction” | |
Spillover is a complicated issue in gradients | |
Visualization Project is our next Step | |
(account for various movement patterns, density-driven dispersion, spawning, random, environmentally forced) | |
Export is an ongoing challenge (GLOBEC?) | |