National Marine Fisheries Service Report of the National Ecosystem Modeling Workshop (NEMoW)

摘要

NEMoW was established in response to several observed and forthcoming needs to more formally review, evaluate, and project the EM efforts of NMFS. NEMoW was responsive to a wide range of calls for ecosystem approaches to management (EAM) or ecosystem approaches to fisheries (EAF) and similar endeavors. Topics such as the recent US and Pew Commission reports on oceans, the forthcoming need for Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs), and several related initiatives (e.g. CAMEO) as well as continued controversies among stakeholders for tradeoffs among living marine resource species (LMRs) all highlight the centrality of ecosystem modeling efforts.