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March 2002, Coastal Communities News ~ Scott Milsom

DFO Minister Thibault: New Helm, New Direction?

“ At a press conference on the Eastern Shore announcing the release of the GPI fisheries report, its principal author, Dr. Tony Charles, recommended that one of incoming Fisheries Minister Thibault's first jobs should be to read, and to absorb the implications of, the GPI fisheries report. ¶ DFO must begin to take the concerns of people like Paul Fraser seriously, and to treat them with respect. To head the Department in that direction, we can only add our voice to Dr. Charles'. Mr. Minister, please read the GPI fisheries report as one of your earliest duties of office. ”

Group urges realistic fish assessment
January 21, 2002, The Halifax Herald

Friday, January 18, 2002, The Daily News, Halifax ~ Richard Dooley

DFO must change ways: report

“ Charles said 37 ecological, social and institutional indicators may provide a more accurate picture of the health of fish stocks and coastal communities. ¶ The indicators — including such things as measuring how many commercially unacceptable fish are dumped overboard, measuring debt levels and bankruptcies among fishermen, and determining contamination levels in fish — should be weighed with estimates of the size of fish stocks to get a better picture of the health of the industry. ”

Briefing Determining fish stocks complex, expert says
Friday, January 18, 2002, The Globe and Mail ~ Kevin Cox
“ Halifax — Federal officials must do more than just count fish in assessing the health of fragile East Coast fisheries, a Halifax professor says. ¶ Tony Charles says that if scientists had looked at factors including toxic residues, whale populations and bankruptcies in the late 1980s they would have seen the collapse of cod stocks was imminent. ” Copyright © 2002, The Globe and Mail

Sunday, October 14, 2001, The Daily News, Halifax ~ Brian Flinn

Economic analyst warns of another fisheries collapse

They say current economic indicators don't offer protection
“ While the decline of the groundfishery has reduced Nova Scotia's fishery GDP by one-third over the past decade, it could have been worse. Income from shellfish has increased, and shrimp biomass has increased. Lobster biomass has remained steady. ¶ Lobster has become increasingly important to coastal communities, but dependence on that fishery has reduced community resilience, the report says. ¶ Also, less is known about lobster stocks than groundfish, where much of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans research is directed. The report notes that spending on science and enforcement declined in the 1980s while the industry was fishing itself almost out of existence. ”

Report urges better fishery monitoring
September 13, 2001, The Halifax Herald

Fall 1999, Between The Issues ~ Tony Charles and Amanda Lavers

Nova Scotia’s Fisheries and the Genuine Progress Index

“ Media reports on Nova Scotia's fishery usually focus on how much fish is caught, fisher incomes, fish exports, and total revenue. All of these factors contribute to the Gross Domestic Product, the conventional measuring stick of the economy. These measures, however, do not capture all that we value in a fishery. To produce a more comprehensive assessment of the fishery, and to measure its progress towards sustainability, a Fisheries Account is being developed within the framework of the Genuine Progress Index, as introduced in the previous BTI. The discussion here highlights some major themes of the GPI Fisheries Account. ”

The Nova Scotia GPI Fisheries and Marine Environment Accounts
January 2002	Natural Capital ~ Marine
Authors: Anthony Charles, Heather Boyd, Amanda Lavers and Cheryl Benjamin
Econometric direct and deferred costs valuation of the fisheries resource and marine environment, and implications for resource management, commercial, and environmental practices.
Abstract	Introduction 7 pages 160K PDF
	Executive Summary 9 pages 144K PDF
ISBN 0-9731035-3-1	Full Report 91 pages 732K PDF
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