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Cooperative Research, Cooperative Management, Co-Management Source: Cooperative research and cooperative management working group. 2015. Cooperative research and cooperative management: A review with recommendations. U.S. Dept. of Commer., NOAA. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-156 78pp. Adapted from Pomeroy, R. and F. Berkes. 1997. Two to tango: the role of government in fisheries co-management. Marine Policy, 21(5): 465-480.
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Fishermen and the fishing industry can bring extensive local knowledge, capacity, and funding to support fisheries research. At the same time, many fishery management agencies lack the capacity, resources, and information needed to manage fisheries today, and this problem is likely to be exacerbated in the future as the oceans undergo rapid changes...
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... fishermen in research can range from cooperative research approaches (little more than using fishing vessels or gear as platforms) to more collaborative research (where fishermen participate in the design as well as conduct of the study), to devolution of management authority to co-management entities (communities or other organized groups of stakeholders who play a significant role in data collection and research). Partnered activity between fishery managers and fishermen might fall on a spectrum of control over the activity, with cooperative research being an example where the majority of authority remains with the resource manager, and co-management sharing the most authority with the resource user group (Figure 2). In the U.S., true co-management is still relatively rare; some examples include the legally defined arrangements between federal and state governments (e.g. ...
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... CCFRP straddles two modes of public engagement in science: collaborative fisheries research and citizen science. In so doing, it draws from a long history of scientists partnering with members of the fishing industry to study fish populations or develop management tools (Hartley & Robertson, 2009;Mireles, Nakamura & Wendt, 2012;Gleason, Iudicello & Caselle, 2017). Citizen sciencealso called community-based or participatory scienceinvolves members of the public who are not scientists by trade (Mckinley et al., 2017), and it differs from collaborative fisheries research in that the volunteers are not necessarily part of the fishing industry. ...
Recent marine spatial planning efforts, including the management and monitoring of marine protected areas (MPAs), increasingly focus on the importance of stakeholder engagement. For nearly 15 years, the California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program (CCFRP) has partnered volunteer anglers with researchers, the fishing industry, and resource managers to monitor groundfishes in California's network of MPAs. While the program has succeeded in generating sustained biological observations, we know little about volunteer angler demography or the impact of participation on their perceptions and opinions on fisheries data or MPAs. In this study we surveyed CCFRP volunteers to learn about (a) volunteer angler demographics and attitudes toward groundfish management and stock health, (b) volunteer angler motivations for joining and staying in the program, and (c) whether participation in the program influenced volunteer angler opinions on the quality of fisheries data used in resource management and the establishment of MPAs in California. CCFRP volunteers were older and had higher fishing avidity than average within the California recreational angling community. Many self-identified as more conservation-minded than their peers in the recreational fishing community and had positive views of California groundfish management and stock health. Participation in science and giving back to fisheries resources were major motivating factors in their decision to become and remain CCFRP volunteers. Angler opinions toward MPAs were more positive after volunteering with CCFRP. Those who had volunteered for seven or more years with CCFRP were more likely than not to gain a positive opinion of MPAs. Our survey results provide evidence that long-term engagement of stakeholders in collaborative research positively influences stakeholder opinions regarding marine resource management, and highlights CCFRP's success in engaging citizen science stakeholders in collaborative fisheries research.
