Recruiting Fishery Scientists Workshop on Stock Assessment and Social Science Careers (2000) / Chapter Skim
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2 Summary of Workshop Discussions
2 Summary of Workshop Discussions
Pages 14-21
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Achieving such goals will require increased employment of stock assessment and social scientists, although workshop participants did not attempt to assess the accuracy of NMFS' estimates of the number of additional scientists needed to meet such goals. CONCEPTUALIZING THE HUMAN RESOURCE PROBLEM The human resource problem is a supply-demand problem, and NMFS could approach its human resource problems by either decreasing demand or increasing supply.
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Another suggestion for reducing the demand for stock assessment and social scientists within NMFS and possibly total demand was to contract out a greater percentage of stock assessment and social science analyses. Rationales for and against such an approach were cliscussec} at the workshop.
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The character of university research and the conflicting demands on faculty time often limit university interest in contributing to analyses required for fishery management plans. One participant suggested that fisheries stock assessment and social science activities directed to universities should only be those that include fundamental scientific questions that would leac!
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Few institutions have what some workshop participants considered a critical mass of faculty members to constitute a program in stock assessment or fisheries social science. Examples of institutions that do have this critical mass include the University of Washington for stock assessment science and the University of Rhode island for fisheries economics.
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Although this action initially would effectively reduce the number of individuals available in NMFS laboratories to conduct stock assessment and social science analyses, interactions between NMFS scientists and university faculty and students might increase the effectiveness of the NMFS workforce and increase the numbers of students entering the fisheries stock assessment and social science fields in the longer term. Create opportunities for university faculty to take sabbatical leaves at NMFS research facilities.
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The Ecological Society of America has implemented cooperative agreements and contracts with several federal agencies, inclucling EPA and the National Park Service. NMFS could approach the Society for Applied Anthropology, International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade, and the American Fisheries Society to develop similar cooperative agreements.
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Several workshop participants noted that only a portion of their graduates who stay in fisheries science take jobs with NMFS. Strengthening the fields of fisheries stock assessment and social sciences could benefit both NMFS and also the academic, management, environmental, and industry sectors.
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(Many were trained in mathematics, engineering, and physics.) What is the feasibility of reducing the total demand for stock assessment and social scientists?
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