Suzanne Iudicello

Iudicello & Associates, Environmental Consulting

The Fisheries Governance Tool (FGT) is a comprehensive, evidence-based diagnostic tool that fishery managers, environmental organizations, funders, investors, and other key stakeholders can use to track progress against sustainability goals, identify gaps and challenges that impede continued improvement, and set targets for improvement. The diagnos...

This case study examines the experience of the interdisciplinary Measuring the Effects of Catch Shares (MECS) project, a five-year demonstration project designed to explore the opportunities and constraints for third-party acquisition, organization, and communication of government fisheries statistics in order to track the ecological , economic, so...

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...

Government regulators and regulated businesses issue periodic alarms about the cost of environmental litigation in delayed decisions and burdensome response requirements. Litigation over commercial fishing in U.S. waters is no exception. The effects of litigation on the operations of the National Marine Fisheries Service have been the subject of in...

Many stakeholders predict, debate, and argue the effects of catch share programs on people, communities, fish and the fishing business bottom line. Using an interactive, web-based dashboard, we present a set of objective indicators built around questions aimed to provide supporters and opponents with objective, neutral data and trends— without judg...

The Massachusetts Ocean Partnership (MOP) Planning Frameworks Team, in consultation with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), and based on collective experience and a review of ocean, coastal and resource management programs from the US and other countries, suggests that nine elements are essential component...

"One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing fur...

Introduces the concern about discarded catches, especially the amount of sturgeon, sea turtles, cod and pollock which are being discarded. A case study of the SE US commercial shrimp fishery is used to access the problem of discarded bycatch in terms of ecological effects. The role of The National Marine Fisheries Service is noted. The authors reco...

Legal and policy research examines the rigs-to-reefs concept as an alternative to obsolete petroleum production platform removal in the context of existing U.S. wildlife conservation law. The Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act and their implementing regulations provide procedures for the taking of endangered species and mar...