Brief overview of two 2012-14 research projects: The West Coast Sea Grant-supported project to assess direct marketing approaches for West Coast fishing communities, and Dr. Selina Heppell's "Taking Stock of Oregon's nearshore Fisheries: Development of Simple Assessment Tools for Better Management

1. Toward Resilience and Sustainable Seafood
Supply: Assessing Direct Marketing
Approaches for the West Coast Fishing
Communities
PI: Barbara Walker, UCSB
Co-PIs: Carolynn Culver, UCSB; Kimberly Selkoe, UCSB; Caroline Pomeroy, UCSC
Associate PIs: Stephanie Mutz, Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara;
Pete Granger, Washington Sea Grant; Jamie Doyle, Oregon Sea Grant;
Jeff Feldner, Oregon Sea Grant; Amber Von Harten, South Carolina Sea
Grant Consortium; Heather Lahr, Santa Barbara Sustainable Seafood Program

2. West Coast DMA Project
West Coast Sea Grant Regional Social Science Research
Objectives:
• Evaluate the patterns, processes, and impacts
associated with seafood DMAs
• Integrate this knowledge into practical tools for use by
west coast communities and others in DMAs decision
making
• Pilot communities - Santa Barbara, CA & Coos Bay, OR

3. Taking Stock of Oregon’s Nearshore Fisheries:
Development of Simple Assessment Tools for
Better Management
PI: Selina Heppell
Oregon State University
Fisheries and Wildlife

4. Stock assessment for data-poor species
Big Idea:
• Enhance management and conservation of nearshore fish
• Reduce the risk of overfishing or local depletion
Relevance:
• OR nearshore fisheries not represented by federal catch limits
• ODFW tracks species through fish catch
– fish tickets, logbooks, and landings

5. Stock assessment for data-poor species
Research Objectives:
• Establish methods most appropriate for local
stock assessment
• Determine whether changes to local monitoring
are needed
Outreach:
• “Stock Assessment 101” workshops
• Partners: ODFW, POORT & PFMC