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4. Two applications of the Consensus Solutions process with collaborative modeling for management of a contentious oyster fishery.

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North, Elizabeth W., Wilberg, Michael J., Blair, Jeff, Wainger, Lisa, Cornwell, Jeffrey C., Jones, Robert, Hayes, Chris, Gawde, Rasika, Hood, Raleigh Robert, Goelz, Taylor, Hartley, Troy, Mace III, Marvin M., Diriker, Memo, Fowler, Niquinn, and Polkinghorn, Brian

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NATURAL resources management, OYSTER populations, AMERICAN oyster, NATURAL resources, WATER quality
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Worldwide, enhancement of oyster populations is undertaken to achieve a variety of goals including support of food production, local economies, water quality, coastal habitat, biodiversity, and cultural heritage. Although numerous strategies for improving oyster stocks exist, enhancement efforts can be thwarted by long-standing conflict among community groups about which strategies to implement, where efforts should be focused, and how much funding should be allocated to each strategy. The objective of this paper is to compare two engagement approaches that resulted in recommendations for multi-benefit enhancements to oyster populations and the oyster industry in Maryland, U.S.A., using the Consensus Solutions process with collaborative simulation modeling. These recommendations were put forward by the OysterFutures Workgroup in 2018 and the Maryland Oyster Advisory Commission (OAC) in 2021. Notable similarities between the efforts were the basic principles of the Consensus Solutions process: neutral facilitation, a 75% agreement threshold, the presence of management agency leadership at the meetings, a scientific support team that created a management scenario model in collaboration with community group representatives, numerous opportunities for representatives to listen to each other, and a structured consensus building process for idea generation, rating, and approval of management options. To ensure meaningful representation by the most affected user groups, the goal for membership composition was 60% from industry and 40% from advocacy, agency, and academic groups in both processes. Important differences between the processes included the impetus for the process (a research program versus a legislatively-mandated process), the size of the groups, the structure of the meetings, and the clear and pervasive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ability of OAC members to interact. Despite differences and challenges, both groups were able to agree on a package of recommendations, indicating that consensus-based processes with collaborative modeling offer viable paths toward coordinated cross-sector natural resource decisions with scientific basis and community support. In addition, collaborative modeling resulted in 'myth busting' findings that allowed participants to reassess and realign their thinking about how the coupled human-oyster system would respond to management changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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36. Nutrient and metabolic fluxes on oyster reefs from the Choptank River and Harris Creek, Maryland data from June through August of 2017 (published in Jackson et al., 2018)

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Cornwell, Jeffrey and Cornwell, Jeffrey

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Dataset: Nutrient and metabolic fluxes on oyster reefs, This dataset contains the nutrient and metabolic fluxes data that was published in Jackson et al. (2018) that compared two methods of measuring nutrient and metabolic fluxes on restored oyster reefs: incubations including intact segments of oyster reef and incubations containing oyster clumps without underlying sediments. For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/870783, NSF Division of Ocean Sciences (NSF OCE) OCE-1427019

Published
2022

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