Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Short-term Outcomes: 1.Fisheries Performance Indicators developed by members of W2004 in cooperation with The World Bank are being tested by The World Bank as one mechanism to estimate the wealth generated by individual fisheries and to evaluate and prioritize projects as part of their Global Program on Fisheries (PROFISH) 2. An internet-based, distance education course developed as part of W2004 activities and entitled The Economics of Fish is currently being taught out of the University of Alaska as a way to address the problem of economic illiteracy in the fishing industry and in the fisheries policy and regulatory development process. Outputs: The participants produced the following in the second year of the project -- 15 refereed journal publications, 7 technical reports/theses, 5 conference proceedings papers and 2 working papers. Activities: Major activity items completed in the past year are listed below. Other activities, and more detail on those listed below, are included in the minutes of the annual meeting. 1. Experiments were conducted that focused on catch shares in simulated fisheries led to self-selected groups pursuing the same stock under different management regimes when the participants were allowed, over time, to choose the management regime they preferred. These results suggest that different kinds of management regimes may emerge over time and perhaps be dynamic in nature, and that there may be some form of an evolutionary selection process for regulatory institutions. 2. A collaborative research/industry project in underway to identify consensus indicators of fisheries sustainability in the Gulf of Mexico as an alternative to MSC-type certification processes. 3. A study of the recreational-for-hire industry in the Gulf of Mexico was completed in the past year, with the resulting data and results constituting the most comprehensive socioeconomic and policy data currently available on the Gulf RFH fishing industry. 4. Intercept and online surveys of seafood preferences were conducted in Hawaii and Kentucky, and in particular preferences were elicited for wild caught versus aquaculture products. Locally grown seafood was a consistently positive influence on willingness-to-pay for product, and wild-caught price premiums were acceptable to participants who grew up in coastal areas.

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Available from: North Pacific Fishery Management Council. 605 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 306, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 North Pacific Fishery Management Council. 2011. Regulatory Impact Review for Proposed Amendment 94 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska to Revising the vessel use caps applicable to quota share held by GOA Community Quota Entities. Available from: North Pacific Fishery Management Council. 605 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 306, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 North Pacific Fishery Management Council. 2011. Regulatory Impact Review/Environmental Assessment/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Proposed Amendment 97 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area Amendment 80 Vessel Replacement. Available from: North Pacific Fishery Management Council. 605 W. 4th Avenue, Suite 306, Anchorage, Alaska 99501 Pomeroy, R. S. 2012. Managing overcapacity in small-scale fisheries in Southeast Asia. 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