SEMINAR: MAF SEMINAR

[Teri Villamor <TVillamor@rsmas.miami.edu>]

MAF Seminar
Friday, February 26, 2010
10:30 amd - 11:30 am
SLAB Conference Room
Guest Speaker: Dr. larry Perruso
Economist, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC

"Forecasting socioeconomic impacts associated with the establishment of
marine protected areas: a modified Delphi technique"

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are spatially oriented fishery management
strategies designed to allow exploited species and/or impaired
ecosystems to recover over time by excluding (partially or fully)
fishing effort from fishing grounds and essential fish habitats,
including reefs and spawning sites.  Socioeconomic impacts to fishery
stakeholders must be identified and measured using the best available
scientific data and methods as part of the federal regulatory process
when establishing MPAs in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the
United States.  This research presents a tractable methodology based on
consensus among experts that forecasts the types and incidence of these
impacts and is especially applicable when empirical data are lacking or
poor in spatial resolution.  The methodology is applied to a
contemporary regulatory problem resulting in semi-quantitative rankings
of proposed sites associated with establishing a network of Type 2 MPAs
in the South Atlantic EEZ of the United States.





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