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• Introduction
  • Survey of global fisheries and their significance
    • How much fish is caught? Where and what kinds? How important are nonfood uses of fish? How important are nonfish ocean products? Todd Mooring 10/28
    • What is the monetary value of these fish/other ocean creatures? How big economically is the fishing industry? How many people work in it? Todd Mooring 10/28
    • Attempt to classify world fisheries. Discuss similarities and differences between large high technology fisheries that provide fish to the developed world and the small fisheries of developing countries. Todd Mooring 10/28
• Threats to fisheries
  • Fishing activities
    • Overexploitation Todd Mooring 10/28
    • Bycatch Todd Mooring 10/28
    • Other aspects of fishing (trawl damage, ghost fishing) Todd Mooring 10/28
  • Pollution
  • Climate
    • Could non-temperature aspects of climate change impact fish? If so, how? Todd Mooring 10/28
  • Assess relative importance of these factors Todd Mooring 10/28
• Implications for Humans
  • Food security
    • Needs to be assessed by region of the world Todd Mooring 10/28
  • Economic impact
    • Would it be possible to put a dollar value on the loss of global fisheries? Todd Mooring 10/28
    • How hurtful have fishery collapses been in the past? Todd Mooring 10/28
• Goals and Justification
  • (Maybe we should insert the goals here) Todd Mooring 10/28
  • What we want and why
• Non-biological considerations when formulating solution
  • Economic/social/political issues
• Regional/fishery management solutions---How goals are to be achieved
  • The global problem is a collection of local problems
  • Regional solutions
    • Discuss fishery problems and solutions in various regions of the world
  • Solutions by fishery type---solution templates
    • Discuss problems and solutions in various kinds of fisheries---large commercial, subsistence, etc.
  • Discuss effectiveness of various types of fishery management systems. Some methods are better than others, according to one source. Todd Mooring 10/28
  • This section could probably be reorganized Todd Mooring 10/28
• Global and technical aspects of solution
  • Climate
  • International waters
  • Change global fish demand
  • Aquaculture
• Specific recommendations/issues not addressed elsewhere
  • Need for additional fisheries research
• Conclusion

Team 4: October 26th

As part of Mission 2011's overall solution, we think that to be able to know and track population size, normal age distribution, and predator/prey levels, electronic tags must be used. If the need arises to know biomass of a fishery, but does not need to be specific to a species, then SONAR can be used to find that information.  We are working to develop an implementation of the tagging and surveying techniques that we have researched.

Our group will also be able to use GIS data and biomass estimates from ICES \[http://www.ices.dk\] and FAO \[http://www.fao.org/fi/\] to identify crashed stocks.  We are working on analyzing our data to summarize which stocks are at dangerously low levels

 NOTE: We know that this needs to be fleshed out better, but we wanted to get something posted for now.

Todd: October ?

Here is an outline/template for our solution.

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