Chair: Dr. Paul Foley, OFI Module I-1 lead

Speaker: Dr. Courtenay Parlee, OFI Module I-1 Post-doctoral Fellow

Contributors: Dr. Paul Foley, Dr. Charles Mather, Dr. Gabriela Sabau, Ruyel Miah, Dr. Maria Andree Lopez, and Dr. Rob Stephenson

Welcome remarks by: Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee, OFI Module I Lead

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This presentation will address the challenge of integrating social science into governance processes by bringing two independently developed frameworks into conversation, the Canadian Fisheries Research Network’s Comprehensive Fisheries Sustainability Framework, and Ribot and Peluso’s social science Theory of Access. The presentation will illustrate how these frameworks can enrich the conversation about how to include socio-economic objectives around distribution of access and benefits into governance and management decisions with a case study of the Northern Shrimp fishery in the 1990s off the Northeast Coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. It will conclude with remarks on how access analyses can “inform governance responses in a changing ocean”.  

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WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7FX_v0-lns

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Chair: Dr. Nicole Power, OFI Module I-2 Lead

Speakers: Dr. María Andrée López Gómez, OFI Module I-2 Post-doctoral Fellow; Mark Dolomount, Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board; Dr. Christine Knott, OFI Module M Post-doctoral Fellow

Welcome remarks by: Dr. Barbara Neis, OFI Module I Co-investigator

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This presentation will focus on recruitment, training and retention (RTR) of people in small-scale fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador. We will provide an overview of the changes in the fisheries workforce and the surrounding factors that had an impact on employment in this sector. This will include a focus on fisheries policies and how they may have had an impact on recruitment and retention. We will describe the ongoing research of the RTR Module which includes the process for developing an online survey for owner-operators and crew members (the survey will be launched at the end of October), interviews with fish harvesters and people interested in the fishery, and collaborations with other groups involved in socio-economic research surrounding fisheries. Two special guests will join us. Mark Dolomount from the Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board will join us for a Q&A. If you have any questions related to training please feel free to email them to malopezgomez@mun.ca prior to the webinar. Our other guest is OFI Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI) post-doctoral fellow Christine Knott who will present her work on intergenerational equity.

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WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAwJ-Nx8HU

Chair: Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee, OFI Module I Lead

Speakers: Monica Engel, OFI Module I PhD Candidate; Evan Andrews, University of Waterloo PhD Candidate

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The values and relationships between communities, fisheries and ocean are well recognized but difficult to describe or quantify. Thus, they are often not properly considered in management and decision-making. A better understanding of a range of values and worldviews of communities about fisheries and ocean and how they perceive their role and relationship with the natural surrounding is imperative for improving governance. The observation and knowledge of the communities about the place they live, and the changes taken place around them, provide valuable information for the development of sustainable fisheries and ocean. This webinar offers two methodological approaches applied in different contexts to demonstrate the intricacies of values for natural resources, and illustrate how to explore the people and place relationship.

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WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_aCobiBsQ

Chair: Dr. Joel Finnis, OFI Module I-4 Lead

Speakers: Dr. Barbara Neis, OFI Module I-4 Co-investigator; Desai Shan, OFI Module I-4 Co-investigator; Brenda Greenslade, Module I Advisory Committee member (NL-FHSA); Joshua Ryan, OFI Module I-4 Master's student, Alexandria Major, OFI Module I-4 Master's student, Dr. Robert Brown, OFI Module I-4 Co-investigator; Lorenzo Moro, OFI Module I-4 Co-investigator; Dr. Emily Reid-Musson, OFI Module I-4 Post-doctoral Fellow

Welcome remarks by: Dr. Barbara Neis, OFI Module I-4 Co-investigator 

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The marine environment is recognized as a particularly hazardous setting for work, presenting multiple highly variable (and frequently additive) risks to health and safety. Addressing this risk requires consideration of a range of factors, including: awareness of weather impacts on a changeable environment; industrial hazards presented by moving vessels of varying size and equipment; the effects of worker fatigue; and impact of governance approaches (e.g. fisheries management options), among others. This webinar examines aspects of marine occupational health & safety (OHS), with a focus on fisheries. In addition to providing an overview of the current state of marine OHS governance and initiatives in Atlantic Canada, presenters will address the role of weather briefings in fisheries co-management and knowledge co-production, the potential for protective gear in reducing risk, and an exploration of noise exposure on fishing vessels and its impact on long-term health. 

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WATCH NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDxwB9_BrEY

Chair: Dr. Gabriela Sabau, OFI Module I-5 Lead

Speakers: Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee, OFI Module I Lead; Md. Ruyel Miah, OFI Module I-5 Master's student; Dr. Prateep Nayak, OFI Module I-5 Collaborator

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Many fishing and coastal communities are healthy and resilient, and have been able to cope and adapt to different types of changes, from those related to climate, socioeconomics and regulations. Yet, many of them are not as strong, with less capacity and assets, and several are geographically, economically and politically marginalized. For these communities, large- or small-scale change can have major impacts on their wellbeing and livelihoods and can put them in a highly vulnerable position. What small-scale fisheries and coastal communities are vulnerable to, and how, are important questions to address, as well as what needs to be done to make them vulnerable. This webinar presents some examples of this through a quick scan of vulnerability to small-scale fisheries and coastal communities around the world due to Covid-19, with an emphasis on impacts on access to markets for fishing people in Atlantic Canada. It will also include a presentation about a novel concept novel concept “social-ecological regime shifts” to evaluate the challenges and the impacts of changes on these communities, as well as discussion about moving from vulnerability to viability.

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WATCH SOON: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEU3LEAzmkYEpl0BYhTlcrw

Chair: Aaron Dale, Torngat Wildlife, Plants, and Fisheries Secretariat
Speakers: Morgon Mills, Labrador Institute; Rachael Cadman, OFI Module I-A PhD student, Dalhousie University
  
In this session we will weave a thread from the past, through the present, and to the future of commercial fisheries in Nunatsiavut. The structure will include three short presentations: a history of commercial fishing in Nunatsiavut (Morgon Mills),  an analysis and reflection on the current status of commercial fishing in Nunatsiavut (Aaron Dale), and the development of a strategy to envision the future of commercial fishing in Nunatsiavut (Rachael Cadman). Together we explore the merits and the implications of holistic, long-term, fisheries management.  Is this what Indigenous knowledge inclusion looks like in contemporary Canada? This is the question we ask ourselves, and we hope you will join us in our reflection. The session will prioritise dialogue and discussion, and we encourage all attendees to consider themselves as panelists, as we probe the way forward for Indigenous knowledge in fisheries conservation and management. 

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