Seminar Abstract:

I will review the historical changes and current status of the New England groundfish resource (15 species, 25 stocks). The resource has never, in recorded history, been fished in a sustainable way (as currently defined by science and society), and achieving these goalsrequires management systems and sharing agreements heretofore considered ananathema to the industry. Unprecedented management controls enacted in 1994-1995are beginning to turn around the depleted resource base, but allocation issues (between gear/port sectors and with Canada, in the case of transboundarystocks)remain a daunting challenge for managers. Issues of sustainabilityare exploredfrom the perspectives of stock assessment, ecosystem dynamics,and socioeconomicgoals.
 

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Biography:

Steven A. Murawski has been the Chief Stock Assessment Scientist at the Northeast Region of National Marine Fisheries Service in Woods Hole, Mass. since 1990.  Murawski's research interests vary from ecosystem effects of mixed-species harvesting to methods of fish stock assessment to use of Marine Protected Areas for fisheries management. Murawski has coordinated stock assessment research on over 50 fishery populations off the Northeast USA (including groundfish, invertebrates, sport fish and small pelagic species).  This research supports management efforts by the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Councils, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization the International Commission the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.

Readings

• Brodziak ,J. T., W.J.Overholtz,and P.J. Rago.  in press.  Does spawning stock affect recruitment of New England groundfish?  Canadian Journalof Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

• Murawski ,S.A., R.Brown, H.-L.Lai, P.J. Rago and L. Hendrickson.  2000. Large-scale closed areas as a fishery-management tool in temperatemarinesystems: TheGeorges Bank experience.  Bulletin of Marine Science66(3):775-798.

• Fogarty , M.J. and S.A.Murawski. 1998.  Large-scale disturbanceand the structure of marine systems:fishery impacts on Georges Bank.  Ecological Applications 8:S6-S22.

Other Selected Publications(optional):

• Murawski, S.A. 2000. Definitionsof overfishing from an ecosystem perspective. ICES Journal of Marine Science57(3): 649-658.

Interview with Steve Murawski for Habitat Media:
http://www.habitatmedia.org/tran-murawski.html

Last modified 12/9/2001          

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