Two upcoming events that may be of interest:

Monday, November 9, 2015
Adaptive Management: So You Say It’s a Key to Resilience?
Joshua Stoll, Doctoral Candidate, School of Marine Sciences, Robert and Patricia Switzer Fellow
3 PM, 107 Norman Smith Hall

http://umaine.edu/mitchellcenter/event/seminar-adaptive-management-so-you-say-its-a-key-to-resilience/

Many scholars have called for a paradigm shift in fisheries governance away from management approaches that require definitive information about stock size and dynamics to those that build social-ecological resilience. In this rapidly growing body
of research, adaptability is routinely described as one of a short list of mechanisms, along with modularity, diversity, and transformability, that cultivate resilience and buffer systems against social and ecological disturbances. However, while
many advocate for adaptability, the basic assertion that adaptability increases resilience has been largely taken as a given. In this presentation, Stoll draws on multiple data sources and methods to examine the history, evolution, and current
status of multiple institutions in Maine, and illustrates how the process of continually modifying the management system by way of trial and error has decreased the resilience of fisheries in Maine.
Video conferencing is available. Please contact Carol Hamel ([ mailto:[log in to unmask] ][log in to unmask]) for more information



Thursday, November 19, 2015
Sustainability and the American Lobster
Dr. Richard Wahle, University of Maine School of Marine Sciences
6:30 PM, Maine Maritime Museum
http://www.mainemaritimemuseum.org/events/sustainability-and-american-lobster/

Join Sea Grant researcher Rick Wahle at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath to hear the history of challenges in the Maine lobster fishery and the current struggle to make the lobster fishery sustainable. A leading conservationist and scientist for
over 25 years, he has made the future of the American Lobster his life's work, producing numerous peer reviewed publications, technical papers, is the recipient of many federal grants.

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