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Draft Agenda

last revised 5/9/05

PowerPoint presentations, in PDF format, are linked in this agenda. Speaker names are linked to biographies where available.

Thursday, April 21

8:00 a.m.

Registration desk opens

9:00 a.m.

Opening remarks

Moderator: Phil Smith, Program Administrator, Restricted Access Management, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Region

• Welcome: The Importance of Community to Fisheries Management, Dr. James Balsiger, Regional Director, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Region
  • PowerPoint presentation: Managing Fisheries, Empowering Communities (PDF, 936 KB)
• Keynote, Ross Shotton, Fishery Resource Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome
  • PowerPoint presentation: Empowering Fishing Communities—A view from an IGO bureaucrat (PDF, 4.2 MB)

10:00 a.m.

Morning coffee break

10:15 a.m.

Alaska's community fisheries management programs: Where are we now? (Panel 1)

• Community Development Quota Program, Mark Davis, Director of Banking, Securities, and Corporations, Alaska Dept. of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
  • Powerpoint presentation: Western Alaska
    CDQ Program (PDF; 576 KB)
• Local Area Management Plans, Eric Jordan
  • PowerPoint presentation: Community Based Fisheries Management, Sitka, Alaska (PDF, 912 KB)
• Chignik Salmon Cooperative, Axel Kopun and Heather McCarty
• Community Quota Program for Halibut/Sablefish, Brian Templin, City Planner, City of Craig
  • Powerpoint presentation: Community Quota Entity Program—Craig, Alaska and the Prince of Wales Island Community Holding Corporation (PDF; 260 KB)
• BSAI crab rationalization, Steve Minor
  • Powerpoint presentation: BSAI Crab Rationalization: Community Protection Measures and Development Opportunities (PDF, 476 KB)

12:00 p.m.

Lunch (no host)

1:15 p.m.

Coastal communities and fisheries management: Finding and using the data to analyze impacts (Panel 2)

Facilitator: Wanetta Ayers, Executive Director, Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference
Powerpoint presentation: Coastal communities and fisheries management: Finding and using the data to analyze impacts (PDF, 404 KB)

• Dr. Michael Downs, Senior Social Scientist, EDAW Inc.
  • Powerpoint presentation: Community Impact Assessment Data Issues in the North Pacific Fisheries (PDF, 2.4 MB)
• Dr. Jennifer Sepez, Anthropologist, Economics & Social Sciences Research Program, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center
  • Powerpoint presentation: Communities Research
    at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center Economic and Social Sciences Research Program (PDF; 352 KB)
• Courtney Carothers, Graduate Research Assistant, Economics & Social Sciences Research Program, NOAA Fisheries
  • Powerpoint presentation: North Pacific Fishing Crew Demographics and Trends, 1993–2003 (PDF, 652 KB)
  • Handout: Commercial Fishing Crew Demographics & Trends in the North Pacific: 1993-2003 (PDF; 36 KB)

2:45 p.m.

Community considerations in state-managed fisheries: The Alaska Board of Fisheries process and legal framework

• Ed Dersham, Vice Chair, Alaska Board of Fisheries
• Diana Cote, Executive Director, Alaska Board of Fisheries

3:30 p.m.

Afternoon break

3:45 p.m.

Community considerations in federally managed fisheries: The North Pacific Fishery Management Council and NOAA Fisheries process and legal framework

• Chris Oliver, Executive Director, North Pacific Fishery Management Council
  • Powerpoint presentation: Community considerations in federally managed fisheries, April 2005 (PDF; 988 KB)
• John Lepore, NOAA General Counsel
  • Powerpoint presentation: Legal Issues with Community Programs (PDF; 20 KB)
• Jay Ginter, Sustainable Fisheries Division, NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Region

5 p.m.

Closing remarks—adjourn for the day

Friday, April 22

8:30 a.m.

Opening remarks

• Stephanie Madsen, Chair, North Pacific Fishery Management Council

8:45 a.m.

Case study 1: Community-based management in the fixed gear groundfishery off Nova Scotia

• Hubert Saulnier, Chair, Fundy Fixed Gear Council
  • Powerpoint presentation: Fundy Fixed Gear Council (PDF; 204 KB)

9:45 a.m.

Morning break

10:00 a.m.

Case study 2: The community panels project—institutionalizing social science data collection

• Madeleine Hall-Arber, Anthropologist, MIT Sea Grant College Program
  • Powerpoint presentation: Case Study 2: The Community Panels Project—Institutionalizing Social Science Data Collection (PDF; 2.1 MB)

11:10 a.m.

Case study 3: International perspectives on community-based fishery management

• Ross Shotton, Fishery Resource Officer, Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations, Rome
  • PowerPoint presentation: Compare and Contrast: A look at four national situations from the perspective of a "Fisheries Advisor" with as much emphasis as possible on the nature of participants' entitlements in the fisheries (PDF, 932 KB)

12:10 p.m.

Lunch (no host)

1:15 p.m.

Case study 4: Alaska coastal communities and the salmon industry—the future

• Dr. Steve Langdon, Professor of Anthropology, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Bob Waldrop and Chuck McCallum, Members, Alaska Board of Fisheries Salmon Restructuring Committee

2:30 p.m.

Breakout sessions
This is an opportunity for small groups to discuss the conference presentations, the questions below and other issues related to fisheries management and Alaska's coastal communities.

• What are Alaska's coastal community needs? What are we trying to protect, sustain, or promote?
• Were there tools, provisions, or programs presented in the case studies that might work in Alaska?
• What goals are these programs intended to meet?
• What are the key elements of these programs that make them effective?
• How can and should communities be involved in determining the objectives, design, and implementation of these programs?
• What are effective and appropriate ways to represent communities in a regulatory regime?
• How can government provide meaningful opportunities for community development via public policy while also supporting community efforts to determine their own futures?

3:30 p.m.

Afternoon break

3:45 p.m.

Continue breakout groups

5:30 p.m.

Reception*
(no host bar and appetizers)

Brief presentation: Alaska Coastal Communities Observer System

• Gale Vick, Executive Director, Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition

*Sponsored by Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition, Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation, Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Association, and Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association

Saturday, April 23

9:00 a.m.

Opening remarks

• McKie Campbell, Commissioner, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

9:30 a.m.

Breakout group reports

• Each facilitator provides a summary of each group's recommendations and/or conclusions
  • Powerpoint presentation: Blue group summary (PDF; 60 KB)
  • Powerpoint presentation: Green group summary (PDF; 64 KB)
  • Powerpoint presentation: Orange group summary (PDF; 69 KB)
  • Powerpoint presentation: Pink group summary (PDF: 56 KB)
  • Powerpoint presentation: Yellow group summary (PDF; 704 KB)

11:00 a.m.

First steps: Discuss process for furthering measures recommended in the working groups

• Is this action within the BOF/State, NPFMC/Federal, legislative, or community authority?
• What mechanisms are necessary to further these recommendations?
• What is the most effective course of action? What steps could communities take to get there?
• Discuss modifications as we learn more about the obstacles to implementation

12:00 p.m.

Closing remarks

• Discuss plan for proceedings and adjourn conference

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