[Rimarinefisheries] The Rhode Island Commercial Fisheries Blueprint for Resilience charts a path for the future

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The Rhode Island Commercial Fisheries Blueprint for Resilience charts a path for the future

Last week saw the release of the Rhode Island Commercial Fisheries Blueprint for Resilience, a plan co-created by 125+ members of Rhode Island's fishing industry through an extensive two-year process.

Ocean State fisheries face an unprecedented convergence of challenges: warming water temperatures, changing food webs, habitat alteration, shifting demographics and labor markets, increasing competition from other ocean industries, and regulatory strain. The Blueprint for Resilience recognizes the interconnected nature of these pressures and sets a course for addressing them as a system. It identifies goals, tools, and tactics associated with seven key strategy areas: public relations, civic engagement, the next generation, innovative seafood marketing, working waters and coastlines, healthy habitats, and adaptive science and management.

The process that led to creation of the Blueprint for Resilience was decentralized and bottom-up. Implementation of its strategies will be just as distributed, borne on the shoulders of all who recognize the importance of wild-harvest fisheries to the state of Rhode Island. If you would like to learn more about the process that created theBlueprint or play a role in its implementation, please contact the project organizers at ResilientFisheriesRI at gmail.com<mailto:ResilientFisheriesRI at gmail.com>.

Financial support for the project was provided by a Saltonstall-Kennedy grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Fiscal sponsorship was provided by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey. The RI Department of Environmental Management provided in-kind support by facilitating communications, presenting information at workshops, and discussing project progress with the organizing team.


READ THE FULL DOCUMENT<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__resilientfisheriesri.org_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2018_04_RI-2DCommercial-2DFisheries-2DBlueprint-2Dfor-2DResilience-2D1.pdf&d=DwMFaQ&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=XzmX5GTv6MlqEdzIVBZHl-6A6M577eF7p2sbOYuE2sk&m=BIxEmSALlUhXi7eu0Ks2epOCk-S1XCBEbP45IRC3sPQ&s=WH1wa_hPsV5m4gop06FkuAiobdyPQb6vgdnW6pw-ckY&e=>

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Attend the launch event

May 7, 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM, South Kingstown Elks Lodge (60 Belmont Ave., Wakefield, RI<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__maps.google.com_-3Fq-3D60-2BBelmont-2BAve.-2C-2BWakefield-2C-2BRI-26entry-3Dgmail-26source-3Dg&d=DwMFaQ&c=tSLbvWYfvulPN3G_n48TUw&r=XzmX5GTv6MlqEdzIVBZHl-6A6M577eF7p2sbOYuE2sk&m=Fja8WaokI_l4BorOR5GXBv00JtPO0uRI-N80YIM-uZY&s=rNoYfygScqNu1MiZ1FwH8GE5ycRIzBOgYwhUXHiioqQ&e=>)

The event will include food and cash bar, opportunities for mingling and education, a central speaking portion that will review the process and the content of the Blueprint for Resilience, and a break-out group session where attendees will get to work envisioning how to implement the Blueprint's recommendations moving forward. All members of the fishing industry and those whose work intersects with the management or support of commercial fisheries and marine resources are encouraged to attend.

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