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PNCIMA meeting in PR

At Crest from 6-9 PM Wednesday

 

See the PNCIMA web site for more info

 

With most entries from this page – agenda – PPT etc

 

Here are most their online documents page  

 

 

Innovative use of technology --- listening to everyone

Meeting was presumably web cast and the complete video will be put up on the PNCIMA web site --- plus there were live call ins – whose messages/ questions were related to the meeting by a DFO spokesperson

 

 

Different perspectives of PNCIMA

At the March 9th meeting it was image on far left --- oceans – and not watersheds were topic for discussion --- though someone suggested in group discussion that ‘it took healthy watersheds to produce healthy oceans’

 

What happens with year to year variability? Strength of North Pacific current weakens, strengthens? – I suggest PNICIMA boundaries and processes would change --- but not the DFO maps etc --- what happens if ‘climate change’ dramatically alters picture? --- Management has to be ‘adaptive’ I was told

PCIMA is a Large Ocean Management Area (LOMA) --- formed by splitting of Alaska current from California current --- See my earlier for LOMA

 

Whether the present incarnation reflects the ‘new approach to managing’ – or just a shift in ‘spin’ remains open question – As one commercial sport rep put it – It is ‘ecosystem BASED management’ not Ecosystem Management

 

And what is PNCIMA managing for?

The restoration of a once productive fishery --- or just a continuation of the depressed state with no further declines?

 

Look at the complexity

I will come back to these later --- herring seems to have one of the longest and best data sets in the PNCIMA area --- and I suggest the bird colonies might be one of better ecosystem health indicators

 

 

Seabirds as indicators – more later

 

 

 

See my March 2009 report

 

And WWF presentation to City Council same date

 

And Enbridge tanker routes brought comments

 

 

 

I will return to this Thursday

 

 

 

Created by LG on 09/3/2011

Last updated on Thursday, March 10, 2011