Fishery coastal and ocean management; integrated systems approaches for sustainability and resilience

这项研究将有助于解决当今最具挑战性的问题之一：在加拿大和全球范围内实现渔业和人类对海洋和海岸的利用的可持续性。20世纪90年代大西洋加拿大鳕鱼渔业的崩溃，以及世界各地沿海地区迅速增加的压力，突显了这一挑战。因此，这项研究将有助于改善渔业、沿海和海洋资源系统的管理，加强海洋生态系统、渔业和沿海社区的可持续性，为有效制订和评估可持续发展战略、面临可持续性威胁的渔业和需要平衡竞争用途的沿海系统提供指导方针。具体而言，该研究将通过渔业生态系统方法、海洋保护区、综合管理以及沿海和海洋管理的地方一级方法，解决对渔业、海岸和海洋的更广泛思考的需要。下面是要进行的研究的三个例子。首先，我将研究加拿大大西洋地区的龙虾渔业，这是该地区最重要的，也是当今世界上最赚钱的渔业之一，评估渔业的运营和管理方案的选择，以提高渔业的可持续性。其次，我将通过制定海洋保护区实施的决策框架，更好地了解渔业如何与海洋保护区（MPAs，指定为特别保护和管理的海洋部分）相互作用。第三，我将通过对特定海湾（如PEI的马尔皮克湾或新斯科舍省的安纳波利斯盆地）的人类和生态方面的分析，为地方一级海岸管理的理论和实践做出贡献。这项研究计划的多学科性质将使加拿大和国际机构有机会采取新的办法，改进过去进行管理的低效方式。此外，这项研究将有助于训练本科生和研究生，即加拿大未来的研究人员，以处理关键环境和可持续发展主题的多学科方法。

This research will help meet one of the most challenging problems today: achieving sustainability in fisheries and in the human use of oceans and coasts, within Canada and globally. This challenge is highlighted by the 1990s collapse of Atlantic Canada's cod fishery, and the rapidly increasing pressures on coasts around the world. Accordingly, this research will contribute to improving management of fisheries, coastal and marine resource systems, and enhancing sustainability of marine ecosystems, fishing industries and coastal communities - providing guidelines for effectively formulating and assessing sustainable development strategies, in fisheries facing sustainability threats, and in coastal systems that need to balance competing uses. Specifically, the research will address the need for broader thinking on fisheries, coasts and oceans, through the ecosystem approach to fisheries, marine protected areas, integrated management, and local-level methods of coastal and ocean management. Three examples of the research to be carried out are as follows. First, I will study the lobster fisheries of Atlantic Canada, the most important in the region and among the most profitable in the world today, assessing the operation of the fishery and the choice of management options so as to improve fishery sustainability. Second, I will seek better understanding of how fisheries interact with marine protected areas (MPAs, parts of the ocean designated for special protection and management), by developing a decision framework for MPA implementation. Third, I will contribute to the theory and practice of local-level coastal management through an analysis of human and ecological aspects in specific bays such as Malpeque Bay, PEI, or Annapolis Basin, Nova Scotia. The multidisciplinary nature of this research plan will provide the opportunity for Canadian and international agencies to adopt new approaches that improve on the inefficient manner by which management took place in the past. Furthermore, this research will help train both undergraduate and graduate students, Canada's future researchers, in multidisciplinary approaches that address key environmental and sustainable development themes.