[env-trinity] CBB: New NOAA Fisheries Draft Plan Aims for Ecosystem-based Management Principles on West Coast

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New NOAA Fisheries Draft Plan Aims For Ecosystem-Based Management Principles
On West Coast 
Posted on Friday, July 13, 2018 (PST) 

NOAA Fisheries' West Coast Region, with its Southwest Fisheries Science
Center in La Jolla, Calif., and Northwest Fisheries Science Center in
Seattle, have released a new blueprint for how the agency will put
ecosystem-based management principles into practice on the West Coast.

The draft Western Roadmap Implementation Plan (WRIP), tiered off NOAA
Fisheries' national Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management Policy and Roadmap,
"offers a distinctly different way of thinking about fisheries in the
California Current Ecosystem," says a NOAA Fisheries press release. "Instead
of considering and managing species in isolation, fisheries managers will
weigh the role of species in an ecosystem when making decisions."

The shift from single species to a systems approach represents "a logical
next step as NOAA Fisheries strives to balance long-term ecosystem
protection with economic and human benefits while refining predictions and
management advice."

NOAA Fisheries scientists have used their growing understanding of
ecosystem-scale relationships to develop a new system called EcoCast, which
helps inform fishermen in the drift gillnet and other fisheries where they
have the best chance of catching the species they're after with the least
risk of entangling or otherwise harming protected species such as sea
turtles and porpoises.

To learn more about West Coast ecosystem-based fisheries management and
review the draft plan, go to
<https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ecosystems/ecosystem-based-fishery-
management-draft-implementation-plans>
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ecosystems/ecosystem-based-fishery-m
anagement-draft-implementation-plans.. You can share your comments on the
draft WRIP via email at  <mailto:nmfs.westcoast-ebfm at noaa.gov>
nmfs.westcoast-ebfm at noaa.gov. The WRIP is open to public comment until
September 30, 2018.

"This draft plan highlights the commitments we've made to our partners, our
stakeholders, and the public, to develop science and management practices
that better account for the interactions we humans have with the marine
environment, and that marine species have with each other, with their
environment, and with us," said Yvonne deReynier, coordinator of the plan
for the West Coast Region.

As an example, the plan mentions how unusually warm ocean conditions off the
West Coast have had a cascade of effects throughout the California Current
Ecosystem, from lean salmon returns to whales foraging closer to shore than
they had in more typical conditions and then becoming entangled with fishing
gear. These cascading effects reverberate through fisheries management,
through cutbacks in salmon catches and more focus on measures to keep whales
from getting entangled in lines of Dungeness crab traps.

"Fortunately, the long-term ocean ecosystem monitoring along the West Coast
enabled us to understand what was happening and make sense of how it fit
into and, in some cases, buffeted the larger ecosystem," said Toby Garfield,
Acting Deputy Director of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center and
coordinator of the new implementation plan for the center.

The WRIP outlines six guiding principles, including implementing
ecosystem-level planning, prioritizing vulnerabilities and risks to
ecosystems and their components, incorporating ecosystem considerations into
management advice, and finally, maintaining resilient ecosystems.

"Ultimately, that's what it's all about," said Chris Harvey, a research
scientist at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and coordinator of the
implementation plan for the center. "We are part of these ecosystems, so we
want to make sure they are resilient both for us and for everything else
that depends on them."

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