Chesapeake Fish Stock Monitoring Workshop NOAA Chesapeake Bay OfficeChesapeake Research Consortium

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Chesapeake Fish Stock Monitoring WorkshopNOAA
Chesapeake Bay Office-Chesapeake Research
Consortium

• Kevin Sellner
• CRC Executive Director

March 7-9, 2006 Annapolis, MD
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Welcome!

• CRC and the NCBO welcome your participation and
  recognize the commitment made in attending a 2.5
  d workshop
• Briefing Book available (also at
  http//www.chesapeake.org/crcworkshops.htm)
• The Radisson will meet all needs, including rooms
  for visitors, catered foods across the day, and
  breakout rooms (see Ms. Nina Fisher at desk)
• There are leads and rapporteurs for all
  discussions
• A final report will be produced and distributed

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Workshop Conception

• The workshop was derived as a result of comments
  from Lowell Bahner, NOAA CBO Director, concluding
  the spring, 2005 CBSAC Integrated Science Forum
• Additional impetus included regional/national
  commitment to multi-species and ecosystem-based
  fisheries management, evident in the Fisheries
  Ecosystem Plan of 2004, that includes stocks,
  prey, and habitat considerations
• And finally, bilateral state and ASMFC needs for
  high quality fish stock data

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Workshop Steering Committee

• Chris Bonzek (VIMS) Chair
• A.C. Carpenter (Potomac River Fisheries
  Commission)
• S. Giordano (NOAA CBO)
• E. Houde (CBL-UMCES)
• P. Jones (MD DNR)
• H. King (MD DNR)
• R. Latour (VIMS)
• T. Miller (CBL-UMCES)
• D. Orner (NOAA CBO)
• K. Sellner (CRC)
• J. Travelstead (VMRC)
• R. Wood (NOAA Oxford)

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Objectives

• To openly discuss and design a bay-wide fish
  stock monitoring program critical to future
  multi-species and ecosystem-based fisheries
  management plans
• Design a program specific to manager needs for
  fisheries management in the Bay
• Develop a design which permits seamless data
  access and use across the system
• Use experiences from outside the Bay as a
  foundation for what might be developed

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External Expertise

• Jerry Ault, RSMAS
• Mary Christman, UFL
• Bob McMichael, FWRI
• Gary Shepherd, NOAAs NEFSC
• Jon Volstad, Versar
• Charles Wenner, SC DNR
• Paul Winger, Memorial University

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Products

• A community developed bay-wide, integrated fish
  stock monitoring program for future multi-species
  or ecosystem-based fisheries management
• Used as foundation for Federal appropriations and
  RFPs
• Serves as a core program for leveraged research
  projects and expanded monitoring elements for
  critical fish, prey, and habitat