| 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?) | |