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SAFMAMS ran over 36 months
from 15 April 2005 to 14 April 2008. The project was organised in six
work packages. Click on the figure beneath to go to a
description of each work package:
Objectives:
To ensure that project objectives are met within the
resources and time frame provided.
Description of Work:
Content coordination
will
ensure that partners communicate, have an understanding of
their tasks and roles, that products produced by more than
one discipline are produced in an integrative way and that
deliverables are of the required quality. The means to
achieve this will include:
1. An initial (kick off) meeting of all participants from
all partners will be held in project month 1. Here project
objectives, methodologies and planning will be discussed and
operationalised in detail to ensure understanding of
requirements and to accommodate logistical needs. The
steering committee, which will consist of one person from
each partner plus the coordinator, will be formed at this
time.
2. A steering committee held during the first of the
sub-national stakeholder workshop to be held month 13.
3. A meeting of all partners will be held around the
European Stakeholder workshop in month 24 to initiate the
production of the international scale synthesis deliverables
(D6-D11).
4. A final meeting of all partners will be held around the
Marine Environmental Management workshop in month 31 to
ensure the successful production of the final deliverables.
The project will work in close cooperation with the ICES
Working Group on Fisheries Systems. Project partners will
be encouraged to contribute to and participate in the
Working Group meetings, both as an important means of
disseminating results and to get feed back, and as a forum
for further interaction between project partners. The ICES
working group will also serve as a forum to exchange
experiences and results from a parallel North American case
study that is being developed.
Administrative coordination
will include internal
monitoring and follow up on resource use and production of
progress reports and cost statements.
Deliverables and Milestones:
The coordination work package does not have listed
deliverables.
Objectives:
To identify best practices for offering scientific advice
for fisheries at the European level.
Description of Work:
1. Collation Phase
Products of a large number of research projects, as well as
other literature, will be reviewed for their implications
for the forms of scientific advice in international
fisheries management regimes. The review will focus on
advice produced by formal scientific institutions in an
international/interjurisdictional context.
2. Stakeholder interaction phase
This phase will focus on the interactions between the ICES
system and DG Fisheries. Three central attempts at reforming
advice will be examined:
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the
shift from advice based on fish stocks to advice based
on fisheries;
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the
need to create advice that takes the impacts and
interactions of multiple fisheries into account; and,
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the
need to shift from shorter term to longer term fisheries
advice.
Observations will take place intermittently over a nine
month period. This observation period with be initiated with
4-5 interviews will be held with officials at ICES and DG
Fisheries. These respondents will be asked to read
deliverable one “Scientific Advice and International
Management Regimes Review” and to offer their reactions and
suggestions for improvement. They will also be
asked about the about the problems and
progress they are seeing with the changes they are trying to
make in the forms of advice.
Observers will attend a meeting of the Advisory Committee
for Fisheries Management (ACFM). At this meeting the final
advice for the Commission is prepared and a representative
of DG Fisheries is present at this meeting. They will then
attend the meeting of the Scientific Technical and Economic
Committee for Fisheries (STECF) that reviews the advice
produced by the ACFM meeting. Then they will re-interview
staff at DG Fisheries about how they have used this advice
in preparation for their report for the Council of Ministers
and about how the advice was used in the end by the Council
of Ministers.
Then a stakeholder workshop will be held at which
representatives of ICES, DG Fisheries, the larger fishing
industry organizations, such as EUROPECHE, and marine
conservation NGO’s who have been involved in the CFP such as
the Institute for European Environmental Policy and English
Nature. All of these groups employ marine scientists. We
will hold a relatively small workshop (10-15 people) that
will be able to deal in-depth with a complex topic while
retaining their stakeholder perspective. Included in this
workshop will be experts from fisheries across Europe,
including Baltic and Mediterranean fisheries. The workshop
will produce a draft list and descriptions of best practices
for providing fisheries science advice at the Community
level.
Deliverables:
One: Scientific Advice and International Management Regimes
Review.
Six: Best Practices for Provision of Scientific Advice at
the European Community Level.
Milestones:
Seven: European Stakeholder Workshop.
Main result: Improved understanding of the most useful forms
for scientific advice for fisheries management at the
European level.
Objectives:
To identify best practices for the use of scientific advice
through stakeholder advisory structures at the level of
shared regional seas.
Description of Work:
1. Collation Phase
Products of a large number of research projects, as well as
other literature, will be reviewed for their implications
for the forms of advice useful within advisory processes at
the level of the regional seas. Because of the possible
roles the reforms of the CFP envision for the Regional
Advisory Councils (RACs) this review needs to cover both the
kinds of information that stakeholders can contribute and
the kinds they can utilize. The information gathered from
the research projects will focus on the relationship between
science and stakeholder involvement in the production of
advice.
2. Stakeholder interaction phase
The learnings taken from the collation phase will be subject
to stakeholder scrutiny through the interactions around the
creation of RACs on the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the
Northern Pelagic Working Group. This will begin with 2-3
interviews with leaders from each of these efforts who will
be asked to read and comment on a draft of deliverable two:
Review of Science and Stakeholder Involvement in the
Production of Management Advice They will be asked to offer
their reactions and suggestions for improvement. They will
also be asked about the about the problems and progress they
are finding in their efforts to develop a useful stakeholder
advisory process and what they are leaning about the forms
of information that these processes can both use and
produce. Meetings of these three groups will be observed.
This process will culminate in workshops with all three
groups in which the review and a report of the observations
that we have made of their process will be presented. Then
they will be asked to design the forms of advice that they
see RACs should be producing and the forms of advice that
the RACs will need in order to perform the functions they
believe they should be performing. For at least one of these
meetings representatives of RACs from other parts of Europe
will also be invited to give input. The workshops will also
produce a draft list and description of best practices for
provision of scientific advice at the shared seas level.
Deliverables:
Two: Review of Science and Stakeholder Involvement in the
Production of Management Advice.
Seven: Best Practices for Provision of Scientific Advice at
the Shared Seas Level.
Milestones:
Four: Stakeholder workshop around the NSCFP efforts to
develop the North Sea RAC. Five: Stakeholder workshop around
the NPWG efforts to develop the pelagic RAC.
Six: Stakeholder workshop around the creation of the Baltic
RAC.
Main result: Improved understanding of the most useful forms
for scientific advice for fisheries management for the RACs
working at the shared seas level.
Objectives:
To identify best practices for the use of scientific advice
in sub-national cooperative comanagement programmes.
Description of Work:
1. Collation Phase
Products of a large number of research projects, as well as
other literature, will be reviewed for their implications
for the forms of advice useful in small-scale, co-operative
fisheries management programmes.
2. Stakeholder interaction phase
The learnings taken from the collation phase will be subject
to stakeholder scrutiny through the interactions around the
Wash and North Norfolk Coast European Marine Site, the
Koster-Väderöfjord shrimp fishery and the Parnu Bay. This
will begin with 2-3 interviews with leaders from each of
these efforts who will be asked to read and comment on a
draft of deliverable three: Review of the Role of Science in
Cooperative Fisheries Management. They will be asked to
offer their reactions and suggestions for improvement. They
will also be asked about the about the problems and progress
they are finding in their management efforts. This process
will culminate in a workshop with all three groups in which
the review and a report of the observations that we have
made of their process will be presented. Then they will be
asked to design the forms of advice that they would find the
most useful for addressing their management objectives.
Deliverables:
Three: Review of the Role of Science in Cooperative
Fisheries Management.
Four: Best Practices for Provision of Scientific Advice to
Sub-National Fisheries Management.
Milestones:
One: Stakeholder workshop around fisheries co-management in
Parnu Bay.
Two: Stakeholder workshop around fisheries co-management in
the Wash and North Norfolk Coast Marine Site.
Three: Stakeholder workshop around fisheries co-management
in the shrimp fishery in the Koster-Väderöfjord.
Objectives:
To synthesize the results of the other work packages and to
package them for maximum usefulness for target audiences.
Description of Work:
Work package 5 is a synthesizing and writing process aimed
at synthesizing the other work packages and preparing
deliverables targeted to two main audiences. The primary
audience is policy and decision makers for whom the three
policy briefs will be prepared. Policy briefs are a short
format with a total length equivalent to a scientific
journal articles and beginning with a one page executive
summary. Such a format is designed for environmental
managers and policy makers across Europe who need to have
the practical implications of the work of the project summarized
and packaged with the basic evidence and reasoning behind
these implications available as needed.
The secondary audience is scientists and scholars of science
and society. The deliverable for this group is the book on
scale and forms of scientific advice. This will be an in
depth analysis of the problem of forms of scientific advice
for marine environmental policy and management and the
circumstances that determine what the most effective forms
for such advice should be. The team writing this book will
be able to draw on expertise in social science and science
studies as well as natural science and will produce a
multidisciplinary work that will be of wide interest. Work
on all of the synthesis deliverables will begin with
extended face-to-face discussions among the project
partnership and the advisory committee that will take place
directly after the European level stakeholder workshop in
month 24 and the marine environmental management stakeholder
workshop in month 31.
Deliverables:
Nine: Policy Brief on Forms of Fisheries Management Advice.
Ten: Policy Brief on forms of Practical Scientific Advice
for Marine Environmental Management.
Eleven: Book on Forms of Scientific Advice and Scale.
Milestones:
The synthesis work package
builds on the milestones from the other work packages.
Main result: A synthesis of the work done throughout the
project.
Objectives:
To build a network that will take the lessons from the work
on forms of scientific advice for fisheries management,
apply those lessons to broader questions of marine
environmental management, and then disseminate them to
practitioners.
Description of Work:
Work package six begins with the identification of the
various programmes and organizations involved in different
aspects of marine environmental management across around the
North Sea. This means programmes that are involved in any
aspect of marine management that rely on the provision of
good scientific advice. This will include efforts at
integrated coastal zone management, protection of marine
biodiversity, including marine mammals and the maintenance
of genetic diversity, and efforts to reduce pollution and
other sources of damage to marine habitats. Those involved
in such programmes may include government agencies from
municipal to national level, intergovernmental
organizations, environmental NGOs, and user groups.
The work package involves two steps. The first is the
identification of these groups around the North Sea and
creating a catalogue with descriptions of their activities,
institutional information, contact information, etc. The
second step will be a workshop. We envision this as a fairly
large group (25-30 activists, decision makers and
scientists) in comparison with the other workshops in the
project because of the need to balance having a wide set of
perspectives with having a small enough group to be able to
effectively write products. Participation will mainly be
drawn from the North and Baltic seas, but representatives
from the Atlantic and Mediterranean areas will also be
invited, which will be a major boost to the effort to
disseminate the results of SAFMAMS broadly across the
continent. The workshop would be presented with the products
of the project about forms of scientific advice in regard to
fishing and would be asked to explore similarities and
differences between fisheries management and their own areas
on expertise. The workshop would last 3 days and would
produce an outline and initial draft of deliverable 8:
Policy Brief on forms of Practical Scientific Advice for
Marine Environmental Management, which will be completed as
part of work package five.
Deliverables:
Five: Catalogue of Marine Environmental Management Efforts
in Northern Europe.
Eight: Policy Brief on Research Priorities on Forms of
Advice for Marine Environmental Management.
Milestones:
Eight: The Marine Environmental Management Workshop.
Main result: Improved understanding of the most useful forms
for scientific advice for marine environmental management.
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