Phase II IUCRC at Virginia Institute of Marine Science: Center for Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCeMFiS)

海洋渔业科学中心（SCeMFiS）利用学术和商业鱼类和贝类渔业资源来解决限制可持续渔业的科学问题。SCeMFiS反映了在管理科学严谨性提高的时代，行业支持的研究不断扩大，以及学术界，行业和监管机构在复杂的管理决策中协同合作的重要性。第二阶段的研究工作将侧重于：（1）预防性管理，将配额维持在可持续水平以下，从而限制经济价值和就业机会，（2）气候变化对可持续管理和长期规划的影响，（3）解决多用途冲突（空间和十年期时间框架）之间的关系，（4）以饲料鱼类和生态系统营养结构为重点的生态系统管理。SCeMFiS将开发关于鱼类种群的基本生物数据;改进抽样设计、种群动态和渔业绩效的模型;评估种群结构的趋势及其与遗传学、生理学和两性异形的关系;改进捕捞方法，通过渔具创新和船队部署的修改减少抛弃物。SCeMFiS提供了一系列海洋学和海洋生物学科能力的融合，这对于应对渔业管理面临的挑战至关重要。SCeMFiS提供了一种机制，通过这种机制，不同的渔业公司和组织可以通过获得丰富的学术资源来制定一个连贯的、解决问题的研究计划。第二阶段将继续在此基础上开展工作。SCeMFiS合作伙伴获得所开发产品的所有权，并成为支持可持续管理的评估和监管行动的全面合作伙伴。SCeMFiS提供了一个机制，通过该机制，行业可以公开展示他们对可持续海产品目标的支持。在第二阶段，我们将扩大努力，利用额外的研究支持，强调两个地点的综合努力，以实现全行业的研究目标，稳定预防性管理行动，否则将推动配额减少，反映管理行动，以应对气候变化驱动的鱼类生产和可获得性的变化，所有行动都符合《马格努森·史蒂文斯渔业保护和管理法》规定的联邦授权。这些目标将在一个促进研究生教育的环境中实现，能够快速响应新兴的数据需求，并提供渔业和经济学相结合的方法来满足社会需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCeMFiS) uses academic and commercial finfish and shellfish fisheries resources to address scientific problems limiting sustainable fisheries. SCeMFiS reflects both a continuing expansion of industry-supported research in an era of increased science rigor in management, and the importance of synergistic collaboration between academics, industry, and regulatory agencies in complex management decisions. Phase II will focus research efforts on: (1) precautionary management that maintains quotas below sustainable levels, thereby limiting economic value and jobs, (2) the influence of climate change on sustainable management and long-range planning, (3) resolution of multiple use conflicts (both spatial and over multi-decadal time frames) between fisheries and energy production, and (4) ecosystem management with a focus on forage fish and ecosystem trophic structure. SCeMFiS will develop essential biological data on fish stocks; improve models of sampling design, population dynamics, and fishery performance; evaluate trends in stock structure and their relation to genetics, physiology and sexual dimorphism; and improve approaches to fishing to reduce discards through gear innovation and modifications in fleet deployment. SCeMFiS offers the coalescence of capabilities from a range of oceanographic and marine biological disciplines that is essential to meet the challenges faced by fisheries management. SCeMFiS provides a mechanism by which a diverse group of fishing companies and organizations can develop a coherent, problem-solving research plan advantaged by access to a wealth of academic resources. Phase 2 will continue to build on this effort. SCeMFiS partners gain ownership of the products developed, and become full partners in assessment and regulatory actions supporting sustainable management. SCeMFiS provides a mechanism by which industry can publicly demonstrate their support for the goal of sustainable seafood. In Phase 2 we will expand efforts to leverage additional research support emphasizing the integrated efforts of the two sites to achieve industry-wide research goals, stabilize precautionary management actions that would otherwise drive quota reductions, reflect management actions that are responsive to climate change driven variations in fish production and accessibility, with all actions in compliance with federal mandates under the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. These goals will be achieved in an environment that promotes graduate education, enables rapid response to emerging data needs, and provides a combined fishery and economics approach to address societal needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.