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NAAFE is an international group of industry, government and academic practitioners of fisheries and aquaculture economics focused on North America.

03/13/2025

The NAAFE Forum in La Jolla, California is only 11 days away!!!

Who else is excited?!?!?!

01/10/2025

Registration Now Open for NAAFE 2025 La Jolla! It's going to be amazing.

Deadlines:
• Presenters with accepted abstracts: 7 February 2025
• All participants: 15 February 2025

Conference Registration Includes:
• Admission to all NAAFE Forum activities (Welcome Reception, plenaries, concurrent sessions, Poster Session, and Banquet)
• Lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday
• Coffee and light refreshments throughout the program

11/03/2024

Be sure to submit an abstract for NAAFE 2025 La Jolla by 15 December!

Main Topics and Special Sessions Include:
• Climate impacts on fisheries & aquaculture
• Seafood markets, trade, and climate considerations
• Equity & environmental justice economics
• Marine debris including the impact of microplastics
• Alternative / overlapping ocean & coastal uses: wind energy, renewable energy, aquaculture
• Marine protected areas, marine spatial planning
• Ocean observing systems & social-ecological systems
• Co-production of knowledge & research with Indigenous or local communities, including citizen science
• Economic & social analysis of fishing and coastal communities
• Integrating social science in climate and ocean system models
• Recreational fisheries
• Ecosystem Based Management
• Integrating & applying human dimensions data in spatial considerations for marine ecosystem-based management
• Special Session: Offshore Wind Energy Development, Fisheries, and Shared Ocean Space (Organizer: Lisa Pfeiffer)
• Special Session: Ecosystem Service Values in Marine Resource Management and Policy (Organizer: Dan Lew)
• Special Session: Integrating Social Science into Fisheries Management (Organizer: Scott Steinbeck)
• Special Session: More than Four Fish: Changing the seafood consumption landscape from niche and small-scale market (Organizer: Hirotsugu Uchida)

09/08/2024

Early-bird Abstract submission for NAAFE 2025 La Jolla is now open!

NAAFE 2025 La Jolla
Climate Ready Fisheries & Aquaculture
24-27 March 2024
La Jolla, CA, US
https://cmbc.ucsd.edu/naafe/

06/26/2024

We are happy to announce that the NAAFE 2025 La Jolla website is now live! https://cmbc.ucsd.edu/naafe/

This will be your go-to site for all NAAFE 2025 La Jolla schedules, deadlines, and activities. Be sure to bookmark the website so you don’t miss out on any NAAFE 2025 news!

03/21/2024

Registration is now open for the IIFET 2024 Conference in Penang, Malaysia! Dive into "Aquatic Food Systems in the Blue Economy."

Join us July 15-19, 2024, in the vibrant city of Penang, Malaysia, for a transformative conference exploring the future of fisheries and aquaculture. We'll address the most pressing global challenges, including the climate crisis and food system sustainability, and how they impact the sector.

Why attend?
- Inspiring keynotes from world-renowned experts
- Actionable insights from panels on the hottest topics
- Skill-building pre-conference workshops
- Exclusive access to the dynamic Asia-Pacific seafood industry
- Unmatched networking with peers and industry leaders
- Cultural immersion in Penang's UNESCO-listed heritage, stunning nature, and incredible cuisine

Don't miss out! Early bird registration rates end on May 21, 2024. Register now to secure your place!

01/31/2024

AWARDS! Two (2) Best Paper Awards will be offered at IIFET 2024 Penang! See the conference and IIFET websites for details.
Paper submission for both awards is from 24 January to 1 March 2024. Please carefully read the eligibility requirements and the formatting guidelines for both awards prior to submission.
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IIFET Best Student Paper Award – This prize, sponsored by NOAA, is for the Best Paper on any topic related to the economics of fisheries or aquaculture by a student.
1. Be a student. “Student” is defined as currently enrolled in a graduate program, or having graduated no more than 1 year prior to the submission deadline (1 March 2023).
2. Submit a paper meeting the guidelines, on any economic topic of relevance to the conference themes.
3. Be the primary author of the paper.
4. Have an abstract accepted for ORAL presentation at IIFET 2024 Penang. You should be in possession of an email indicating the acceptance of your abstract.
*Only eligible students can submit a paper for consideration for the two best paper awards, provided that they meet the eligibility requirements for the Best Student Paper Award AND the JIFRS-Yamamoto Award.
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JIFRS-Yamamoto Prize for Best Paper on Responsible Fishing – This prize is awarded to the Best Paper promoting responsible fishing by an author from a low/middle/upper income country.
1. Be a citizen of a low/middle/upper income country, as defined by the World Bank.
2. Submit a useful paper meeting the guidelines, encouraging the rational development of responsible fisheries in your own country.
3. Be the primary author of the paper.
4. Have an abstract accepted for ORAL or POSTER presentation at IIFET 2024 Penang. You should be in possession of an email indicating the acceptance of your abstract.

01/11/2024

The IIFET Distinguished Service Award seeks nominations for individuals who have made significant contributions to international fisheries and aquaculture. Since 1994, this award has recognized those who have fostered collaboration between academia, industry and government on seafood policy and international trade.

To nominate, please email [email protected] by January 15, 2024. Submissions may include up to five pages of supporting materials, such as a CV or awards.

The selected winner will receive a commemorative plaque and the opportunity to present at the IIFET 2024 Penang Biennial Conference. The announcement will be made in early March 2024.

12/19/2023

Early abstract submission for IIFET 2024 Penang closes this Friday, 22 December!! We are hoping for a broad mix of topics related to the conference themes, or other issues related to the economics of fisheries, seafood, and aquaculture.

The early abstract submission period is mainly intended for those who need an acceptance decision soon in order to apply for travel support from the conference organizers or other sources and who need more time to secure a visa to Malaysia. Authors of early abstracts will be notified of acceptance by 22 January 2024. Authors who do not require an early decision may submit and abstract during the regular abstract submission period.

The Early Abstract Call will be opened until 22 December 2023.
The Regular Abstract Call will be opened until 15 February 2024.

10/06/2023

We are excited to invite you to submit proposals for Special Sessions at the IIFET 2024 conference! We are hoping for a broad mix of topics related to the conference themes or other issues related to the economics of fisheries, seafood, and aquaculture.

Conference Themes
* The Economics of Food and Nutrition Security
* Ocean Equity and Inclusion – Distributional Justice
* Governing for Resilience in Aquatic Food System
* Fisheries, Aquaculture and Trade Futures

*Proposals for topics related to our 4 themes are very welcome. We will also consider proposals for any topic of interest to an IIFET audience. Past IIFET topics have included:
• Fisheries Management, Policy and Regulations, including Ecosystem-based Management and Marine Spatial Planning
• Bioeconomic Modeling
• Aquaculture Economics and Markets
• Seafood Trade and Consumer Behavior
• International Trade, Agreements, Barriers, and Conflicts
• The Gender Dimension of Fisheries and Aquaculture
• Contributions of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Nutrition, Food Security, and Poverty Alleviation in Developing Countries
• Value Chains in Fisheries and Aquaculture

Topics of special interest for the local industry may also include:
• Shellfish Production and Markets
• Quota Management
• Seafood Processing and Value Addition
• Conditions of Access to the EEZ of Third Countries
• Social Transformations of the Fishing Industry
• Seafood Connectivity between Local and Global Markets

09/13/2023

Marine Resource Economics (MRE) is pleased to present the 2022 Outstanding Article Award to:

Ted E. Gilliland, James N. Sanchirico, and J. Edward Taylor for their article:

A Bioeconomic Local General Equilibrium Assessment of Distributional Consequences of Small-Scale Fisheries Reform in Developing Countries, MRE 37(2): 111-134.

Gilliland, Sanchirico, and Taylor (2022) develop an economic model to assess the short and long-run effects of fisheries reform for local economies in developing nations. Coastal fisheries in many developing nations are characterized by poorly defined property rights and weak collective governance, such that the fish stock is essentially an open access resource – leading to overfishing and a loss of economic value. Prior theoretical and empirical work has demonstrated the potential for fishery governance reforms to recover stocks and increase the economic value of the industry. However, few studies have measured the spillovers of these reforms beyond the fishing sector or have examined how impacts may differ across socioeconomic groups.

The authors address these knowledge gaps by developing a bioeconomic local general equilibrium model and calibrating it using data from a municipality on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. This model explicitly considers the flows of benefits and costs of reform over time as the stock recovers, while also accounting for economic spillovers from the fishery sector to the non-fishery sector. In addition, the authors separately evaluate impacts to poor and non-poor households over 20 years, as well as households participating in fishers versus those that do not participate. The authors find that fishing households eventually benefit from governance reform – despite early losses in harvesting income – with wealthier households securing the largest absolute gains. However, non-fishing households in the local economy are never made better off by the reform due to increases in fish prices and indirect economic spillovers such as reduced spending on non-fish goods during the fishery rebuilding phase.

Editor in Chief, Joshua Abbott of Arizona State University notes: “Fisheries reforms in the Global South are often touted as a form of ‘pro-poor’ conservation policy. However, knowledge of how the benefits and costs of reform are distributed across households is very limited. Gilliland, Sanchirico, and Taylor have made a significant contribution to filling this knowledge gap. Most notably, they have demonstrated that non-fishing households in the local economy may be harmed by reforms – suggesting that additional policy tools beyond the usual scope of fisheries governance may be needed to address these spillovers.”

This annual award recognizes outstanding works published in Marine Resource Economics, with selections made by the associate editors, who consider articles published during the award year.

Visit the journal’s Outstanding Article Award webpage https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/mre/oaa for more information about the award and to see the list of previous recipients.

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