IUCRC Phase III Virginia Institute of Marine Science 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既反映了在管理科学严谨性不断提高的时代，行业支持的研究的持续扩展，也反映了学术界、行业和监管机构在复杂管理决策中协同合作的重要性。SCEMFIS伙伴地点威廉和玛丽·弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所的这一为期五年的第三阶段更新将集中研究努力：(1)将渔获量配额维持在可持续水平以下的预防管理，(2)气候变化对可持续管理和长期规划的影响，(3)解决渔业和风能生产之间的多用途冲突(空间和数十年的时间框架)，以及(4)生态系统管理，重点是饲料鱼和生态系统营养结构。SCeMFiS产学合作研究中心(IUCRC)将开发关于鱼类种群的基本生物学数据，并改进抽样设计、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、生理和性别二型性的关系；并通过渔具创新和船队部署方面的修改，改进捕鱼方法，以减少丢弃。SCeMFiS将一系列海洋学和海洋生物学科的能力结合在一起，这对于应对渔业管理面临的挑战至关重要。这项工作的更广泛影响包括对下一代渔业专业人员的劳动力培训，创建关于渔业范围和生产力的重要和广泛的数据档案，以及美国海洋经济的一个关键部门的可持续性。SCeMFiS提供了一种机制，通过该机制，不同的渔业公司和组织可以共同制定一个连贯的、解决问题的研究计划，这一计划有利于获得丰富的学术资源。SCEMFIS研究的第三阶段的更新将建立在前两个成功阶段的努力的基础上。SCeMFiS合作伙伴获得了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正式合作伙伴。SCeMFiS提供了一种机制，让业界可以公开表明他们对可持续海鲜目标的支持。在SCEMFIS第三阶段，该中心将扩大努力，利用更多的研究支持，强调两个地点的综合努力，以实现全行业的研究目标，稳定原本会导致配额减少的预防性管理行动，反映应对气候变化导致的水产品产量和可获得性变化的管理行动，所有行动都符合《马格努森·史蒂文斯渔业养护和管理法》下的联邦任务。这些目标将在促进研究生教育的环境中实现，能够快速响应新出现的数据需求，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智力优势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. This five-year, Phase III renewal for the SCEMFIS Partner Site, The College of William and Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Scinece, will focus its research efforts on: (1) precautionary management that maintains catch quotas below sustainable levels, (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 wind energy production, and (4) ecosystem management with a focus on forage fish and ecosystem trophic structure. The SCeMFiS industry-university cooperative research center (IUCRC) will develop essential biological data on fish stocks and 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. Broader impacts of the work include workforce training of the next generation of fisheries professionals, creation of significant and extensive data archives of fisheries ranges and productivity, and sustainability of a crucial sector of the U.S. marine economy. SCeMFiS provides a mechanism by which a diverse group of fishing companies and organizations can collectively develop a coherent, problem-solving research plan advantaged by access to a wealth of academic resources. The renewal to a third phase of SCEMFIS research will build on efforts of the previous two successful phases. 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 a SCEMFIS Phase III, the Center 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.