Policy Impact in 2012

EEP’s long-lasting investments into elucidating the evolutionary implications of fishing are attracting increasing attention among scientists charged with providing advice to fisheries managers. 

EEP’s long-lasting investments into elucidating the evolutionary implications of fishing (e.g., Dieckmann et al., in preparation) are attracting increasing attention among scientists charged with providing advice to fisheries managers. EEP is recurrently receiving invitations to cover this topic in publications targeting broader groups of fisheries scientists, managers, and policymakers (Heino et al., 2012a), as well as at a range of conferences, including the workshop on Selective Fishing and Balanced Harvest in Relation to Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability (Garcia et al., 2012). The last study, on reconsidering the consequences of selective fisheries, was published as a contribution to the Policy Forum in Science. EEP is working closely with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES; head-quartered in Copenhagen, Denmark), which is not only the main advisory agency for managing the North Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas, but also the world’s oldest intergovernmental organization concerned with marine and fisheries science. In particular, the ICES Working Group on Fisheries-Induced Evolution (WGEVO) was convened for the third time in 2012 co-chaired by two of EEP’s senior scientists. Addressing scientific and applied dimensions of fisheries-induced evolution, this expert group works on designing protocols and tools for evolutionary impact assessments (EvoIAs; Laugen et al., 2013) and on the influence of fisheries-induced evolution on reference points for fisheries management (Heino et al., 2013). Through WGEVO, EEP has also initiated a new collaborative international study on estimating fisheries-induced selection differentials across a large number of stocks. The recognition WGEVO is receiving within ICES is reflected by the extension of this expert group for another three-year term starting in 2013.



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