Sustainable Fisheries

Fisheries Leadership Training

The Sea Grant Fisheries Extension Program at the University of Rhode Island is working with the R.I. Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM) to offer a Fisheries Management Leadership Training Program for Rhode Island. The goal of this training program is to develop and strengthen the skills of Rhode Island fisheries managers. The objectives of these workshops are to:

1. Transfer of appropriate information
2. Development of a co-management team
3. Reduce conflicts among users
4. Produce healthy stocks

The joint steering committee designing this course is composed of representatives from RIDEM fisheries staff, Rhode Island Marine Fisheries Council, New England Fisheries Management Council, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC), commercial and recreational industry leaders, and environmental leaders.

Workshop presentations (pdf):

"Fishing Gear, Selectivity, and Bottom Impact Studies" November 21, 2005

• Effects of Bottom Fishing Gear on Benthic Habitats (6.2M) by Jeremie Collie, URI professor of Oceanography
• Fish Behavior a & Gear Selectivity (2.0M) by Laura Skrobe, URI Research Associate

"How Do You Manage Fish?" December 6, 2005

• ASMFC Overview (2.2M) by Dave Borden, formerly Rhode Island's official representative on the New England Fisheries Management Council
• Federal Fisheries Management, the National Standards, and the Courts (423k) by Kristen Fletcher, director of the Roger Williams University Marine Affairs Institute and the Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program
• Obstacles to Effective Fisheries Management (77k) by Jon Sutinen, URI professor of resource economics

"Where Do the Numbers Come From?" March 16, 2006

"Tools in the Management Toolbox" March 27, 2006

• Changing Directions in Fisheries Management (2.12M) by Robert Pomeroy, Connecticut Sea Grant Extension specialist and University of Connecticut associate professor of agriculture and resource economics
• Tools for Fisheries Management (219k)by Jon Sutinen, URI professor of resource economics