Understanding sources of risk and resilience in fisheries
Understanding risk and resilience in marine, coastal, and freshwater fisheries.
We work alongside Indigenous and government partners combining field data, social-ecological theory, and quantitative models to understand risk and resilience in fisheries and work to inform the people and communities who manage them.
Landscape ecology and life histories of exploited fishesHow growth, maturity, and body size vary across lakes, rivers, and coastlines.
Risk and resilience in marine and freshwater fisheriesStatus assessments, reference points, and forward simulations of recovery.
Coupled feedbacks between people and natureHarvesters, managers, and fish as one social-ecological system.
Trade-offs in conservation and fisheries managementEvidence for decisions that span jurisdictions and governance systems.
Better fisheries assessment and monitoringModels and survey designs that make the most of limited data.
Current projects
Some of our current work focuses on marine protected areas, wild salmon conservaton, knowledge pluralism, and integrated quantitative risk assessments.
Salmon
Pacific salmon: status, reference points, and rebuilding
With the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance, we built a Bayesian time-series model of coho populations across the North and Central Coast to identify the role of time-varying productivity and harvest management in future recovery trajectories.
52coho populations modelled
51%of populations raised conservation concerns in recent years
Hutton Noth (PhD Student) and Michelle Fortier (MRM Student) work with Ha'oom Fisheries Society to survey juvenile coho salmon in the West Coast of Vancouver Island.PhD Student Kate Mussett works alongside alongside members of the Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department to survey sockeye salmon at the Koeye River.Members of the Fisheries Resources Reconciliation Agreement salmon benchmarks subcommitee gather at Kunsoot, Bella Bella, BC to discuss holistic and integrative perspectives of risk to Central Coast salmon.Hutton Noth (PhD Student) and staff from Ha'oom Fisheries Society survey juvenile salmon in the Kennedy Watershed on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.
Partners and collaborators
We work alongside Indigenous partners, government researchers, and research groups across Canada.
Central Coast First NationsCoastal and marine stewardship, co-governance
Central Coast Indigenous Resource AllianceSalmon, crab, and groundfish ecology and management
Ha'oom Fisheries SocietySalmon and spot prawn ecology and management
Fisheries Management LabSFU School of Resource and Environmental Management
Salmon Watersheds LabMetapopulations and disturbance, SFU
COSEWICMarine Fishes Species Specialist Subcommittee
Join the lab
We welcome curious, collaborative people from all backgrounds that are especially motivated to work at the intersection between quantitative ecology, Indigenous-led stewardship, and marine policy.
