Agenda

Purpose

Highlights

Participants

Group Photo

Contact

Workshop Presentations

Tue. October 26 Morning Session

Opening Remarks

Rita Curtis, NMFS S&T

Best Paper Awards and Presentations

Awards for Original Scientific Research
First Place	Multi-Output, Nonfrontier Primal Measures of Capacity and Capacity Utilization	Ronald G. Felthoven, NMFS AKC Catherine J. Morrison Paul, University of California, Davis
Second Place	Participation in a Limited-Entry Fishery: An Options Approach	David Tomberlin, NMFS SWC Valentina Bosetti, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Third Place	Directions for Productivity Measurement in Fisheries	Ronald G. Felthoven, NMFS AKC Catherine J. Morrison Paul, University of California, Davis

Awards for Regulatory Analysis
First Place	Using Ready-Made Regional Input-Output Models to Estimate Backward Linkage Effects of Exogenous Output Shocks	Scott R. Steinback, NMFS NEC
Second Place	Fishing Communities of the North Pacific Volume I: Alaska	Jennifer Sepez, NMFS AKC Heather Lazrus, University of Washington Christina Package, NMFS AKC Bryan Tilt, University of Washington Ismael Vaccaro, University of Washington
Third Place	Qualitative Measurement of Excess Capacity and the Implications to Fishery Management	Minling Pan, NMFS PIC Guang D. Nguyen, University of Hawaii, Manoa

David Carter, NMFS SEC
Joshua Abbott, Sea Grant UC Davis
Alan Haynie, NMFS AKC

Tue. October 26 Afternoon Session

Habitat

Operations Research Tools for Habitat Restoration and Protection	David Tomberlin, NMFS SWC
Critical Habitat: Salmon and Steelhead	Mark Plummer, NMFS NWC
Critical Habitat: North Pacific Right Whale	Lew Queirolo, NMFS AKR
Costs of Protecting Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches in the Pacific	Heidi Gjertsen, NMFS SWC

Policy Level Issues Affecting Economics and Social Science at NMFS

Mark Holliday, NMFS Office of Policy

Wed. October 27 Morning Session

Cross Region Brief Updates

IMPLAN Workshop	Brad Gentner, NMFS S&T
Social Impact Assessment Workshop	Susan Abbott-Jamieson, NMFS S&T
Local Fisheries Knowledge	Susan Abbott-Jamieson, NMFS S&T
Seafood Consumption Survey	Rita Curtis, NMFS S&T
Ecosystem Management Survey	Kristy Wallmo, NMFS S&T

Cross Region Presentations

Community Business Patterns

Eric Thunberg, NMFS NEC

Rosemary Kosaka, Sea Grant URI

A Conceptual Model for Cumulative Effects Analysis

Fisheries Information System

Larry Perruso, NMFS SEC
Susan Molina, NMFS SEC

Concurrent Sessions

Session I - Crew
The Trials and Tribulations of Obtaining Crew for the Hawaii Longline Fleet	Stewart Allen, NMFS NWC
Identifying Crew in the Southeast	Palma Ingles, NMFS SER
Commercial Fishing Crew Demographics of the North Pacific 1993-2003	Courtney Carothers, NMFS AKC

Session II. Commercial Economics
Seafood Cold Storage: Simulation Models for Planning	Merrick Burden, NMFS NWR
Capacity Measurement	John Walden, NMFS NEC
IFQ’s	Lew Queirolo, NMFS AKR
Social and Economic Models on the Information Highway	Peter Fricke, NMFS SF

Wed. October 27 Afternoon Session

Concurrent Sessions

Session I - Community Profiling
Profiling Fishing Communities: The National Context	Susan Abbott-Jamieson, NMFS S&T Patricia Clay, NMFS NEC
Fishing Communities of the Western U.S.	Karma Norman, NMFS NWC
Challenges of Identifying Fishing Communities in the Southeast	Palma Ingles, NMFS SER
Alaskan Community Profiles	Christina Package, NMFS AKC Jennifer Sepez, NMFS AKC
NE Community Profiles: Overview and Oral Histories	Lisa Colburn, NMFS NEC Patricia Clay, NMFS NEC

Session II. Issues in Stated Preference Surveys
An Overview of Stated Preference Choice Experiments Using a Recreational Use Case Study	Todd Lee, NMFS NWC Brad Gentner, NMFS S&T
Economic Benefits of Right Whale Protection	Kathryn Bisack, NMFS NEC
Valuing Marine Protected Areas in the Northeast	Kristy Wallmo,NMFS S&T Steve Edwards, NMFS NEC
The Economic Value of Stellar Sea Lion Protection	Dan Lew, NMFS AKC Bob Rowe, Stratus Consuting David Layton, University of Washington