Thursday
March 6, 2003
4:30-5:30 pm
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
Social follows talk
Michael K. OrbachDirector, Coastal Environmental Management Program, Duke UniversityThe Success of Fisheries Management |
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Conventional wisdom in the fisheries community, and in much of the 'outside' world, is that marine fisheries management has been a failure. The indices used to bolster this view are biological analyses of the status of marine fish stocks, economic analyses of the efficiency and effectiveness of marine fishery systems, and emerging analyses of the condition of marine fish habitats.
This presentation will argue that, from the point of view of governance and social process, marine fisheries management in the United States has been quite successful. Using examples of the evolving condition of the marine fisheries management and related policy structures in the U.S. since World War II, the argument will be made that the marine fishery policy process in the U.S. is growing and robust. This is especially true when viewed in light of activities in related sectors such as marine mammals and endangered species, oil and gas, and coastal zone management, and against the backdrop of heightened public awareness of marine fishery issues and the increased involvement of non-traditional fishery constituencies such as the environmental and food-service communities.
Finally, the presentation will place fisheries in the context of the emerging trends in ocean policy generally, arguing that the increased treatment of marine fisheries as subject to prevalent historical human governance structures and principlesas opposed to a legitimate exception to themis a mark of the success of fisheries management.
Michael K. Orbach is Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy and Director of the Duke University Marine Laboratory and the Coastal Environmental Management Program in the School of the Environment at Duke University. His BA is in Economics from the University of California at Irvine, and his MA and PhD are in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at San Diego. From 1976-79 he was Social Anthropologist and Social Science Advisor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C. From 1979-82 he was Associate Director of the Center for Coastal Marine Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. From 1983-93 he was Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Senior Scientist with the Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources at East Carolina University. He joined Duke, with offices at the Duke Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina, in 1993.
Mike has performed research and has been involved in coastal and marine policy on all coasts of the U.S. and in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, Alaska and the Pacific, and has published widely on social science and policy in coastal and marine environments. Among his selected honors, awards and appointments are:
1. Cicin-Sain, B. and R. Knecht, 2000. The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy. Washington, D.C.: Island Press
pp. 38-47; 60-83; 129-168 (these are the marine fisheries and marine mammal policy sections)
2. Smith, C., 1977. "The Failure of Success in Fisheries Management". Environmental Management 1(3):239-247