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Rebecca Shaw Rebecca Shaw, Ph.D. Associate Vice President, Ecosystems
Michael Regan Michael Regan Director of Energy Effiiciency, Climate
Scott Edwards Scott Edwards Director of Latin America & Caribbean, Oceans

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Reports and successes

  • Success: New management approach brings hope to ailing fisheries

    Nearly two decades ago, EDF experts proposed an approach to transform the way commercial fisheries are managed: catch shares.

  • Success: Struggling West Coast fisheries find hope

    A new way of managing the West Coast's largest fishery — the more than 90 bottom-dwelling species called groundfish — took effect on Jan. 1, 2011. For EDF staff, this marked the culmination of eight years of work.

  • Success: Alaska halibut

    In the early 1990s, a decimated halibut population limited Alaska fishermen to just two days of fishing in a deadly "derby". Find out how catch share management changed everything.

  • Success: Gulf red snapper

    We were at the forefront of working with fishermen, regulators and Congress to implement the Gulf of Mexico's first catch share program to salvage the commercial red snapper fishery.

  • Report: Sustaining America's Fisheries and Fishing Communities

    Our massive research project analyzed over 150 peer-reviewed studies and collected data on nearly 100 fisheries. The study includes an in-depth performance analysis of 10 U.S. and joint U.S.-Canadian catch share fisheries.

  • Report: Oceans of Abundance

    We convened a working group to present policymakers with coherent, achievable methods -- based on the most current scientific consensus -- to reverse the economic and environmental decline of U.S. fisheries, and the communities that depend on them.

  • Science Magazine study: Catch shares revive fisheries

    This study, "Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse?", examined more than 11,000 fisheries from around the world between 1950 and 2003 and confirms that catch share systems for fisheries can help solve the fishery crisis.

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