Engaging U.S. Commercial Fishing Community to Develop Recommendations for Fishery-Sensitive mCDR Governance, Collaborative Research and Monitoring, and Outreach to Fishing Communities
PI: Fiona Hogan, Responsible Offshore Development Alliance
Start Year: 2023 | Duration: 2 years
Partners: Responsible Offshore Development Alliance, NOAA Office of Science and Technology (OST), Shining Sea Fisheries Consulting, LLC
Project Abstract:
The project will leverage existing networks of fishermen from the Northeast, Alaska, and the West Coast to create marine carbon dioxide removal literacy within the community. The project will form a fisherman’s marine carbon dioxide learning committee and will produce informational sheets, webinars and articles. Next, the partners will work with this committee, experts within NOAA, and coastal acidification networks to develop three documents to offer guidance on: 1) best practices for siting including recommendations of criteria for project evaluation and permitting, 2) methods to engage commercial fisherman as co-producers of necessary data from observing system and ecosystem impact studies, and 3) ways to engage with the fishman community in culturally appropriate ways.