{"id":61479,"date":"2013-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/indonesian-officials-visit-uri-for-three-week-course-in-sustainable-fisheries-management\/"},"modified":"2013-10-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T00:00:00","slug":"indonesian-officials-visit-uri-for-three-week-course-in-sustainable-fisheries-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/indonesian-officials-visit-uri-for-three-week-course-in-sustainable-fisheries-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian officials visit 溏心vlog免费B站 for three-week course in sustainable fisheries management"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. — A delegation of Indonesian officials studied sustainable fisheries management at 溏心vlog免费B站 in September and returned home with much more than the luggage they arrived with. They took home knowledge, skills and a commitment to craft their nation\u2019s first fisheries management plan. <\/p>\n


\nSixteen government and university representatives participated in the three-week program \u201cLeadership for Fisheries Management\u201d offered by the Coastal Resources Center of the Graduate School of Oceanography and the Fisheries Center of the College of Environment and

\nLife Sciences. The group, with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), sought out a custom program at 溏心vlog免费B站 because of the university\u2019s record of innovation in fisheries, its long history of collaboration with Indonesia, and its experience providing a rich, hands-on learning experience. Indonesia\u2019s fisheries leaders knew they needed more than a traditional training class to prepare to develop a national plan for ecologically sustainable, economically strong and resilient fisheries.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cYou are not just sitting in the classroom listening to lectures,\u201d said Tonny Wagey, who works in marine and fisheries research and development at the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. \u201cWhat I have learned is to open my mind to sharing experiences with colleagues and learning from the \u2018doers,\u2019 the local fishermen.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nThe participants split their time between the Bay Campus and East Farm\u2019s Fisheries Center, and spent time in Point Judith, Jamestown and Hyannis, Mass., listening to and speaking with fishermen, fish processors, local and regional government officials and others. They toured a processing facility one day and went trawling to study selectivity on Narragansett Bay another day. <\/p>\n


\nYet, the program wasn\u2019t about simply talking to the locals. These fisheries experts were here to learn how to come together as leaders and present a plan to their nation in an effective and convincing way. CRC\u2019s Brian Crawford, one of the course instructors and a fisheries expert, said he could see the participants become more cohesive as the days passed. \u201cThey really bonded as a group and developed a degree of trust. That goes a long way since they have been designated as an intra-agency task force to design Indonesia\u2019s first-ever adaptive co-management process for one of the most important fisheries management areas in Indonesia, the Arafura Sea,\u201d Crawford said.<\/p>\n


\nThat plan was beginning to take shape by the end of the three weeks because course leaders Crawford, Glenn Ricci of CRC and Kathy Castro of CELS put the participants right to work. They broke into small groups to develop draft elements of a fisheries management planning strategy for their nation, presented their work to the group, and had it openly critiqued. \u201cThis is a good learning process for us,\u201d said Saut Tampubolon of the Indonesian Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. \u201cI am more confident about contributing and taking part in developing a plan.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nCelly Catharina of the USAID Environment Office in Jakarta agreed. \u201cIt\u2019s important to bring all the different partners together to learn to work toward the same goals,\u201d said Catharina, who attended the program.<\/p>\n


\nThe critiques focused on content, process and presentation, with 溏心vlog免费B站 staff offering advice learned from years in the field. Crawford, for example, stressed a concept that is a bit new to the Indonesians. \u201cDon\u2019t shortchange stakeholder involvement; that\u2019s very, very important\u201d when developing a plan that the fishing industry and officials will embrace. Catharina agreed that the group would have to persevere to promote a decentralized approach to fisheries management that involves fishermen, the public and other \u201cunofficial\u201d stakeholders. \u201cI\u2019m quite impressed the fisherman here can speak for themselves and weigh in on issues,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\nOf the course\u2019s real-world lessons, Castro noted, \u201cThey learned about the good, the bad and the not so pretty here in the USA. We don\u2019t have all the answers for our own fisheries, but we can give them examples they can learn from. What we stressed over and over again was that if the fishermen weren\u2019t part of the process, and if they don\u2019t buy into the plan, then your plan is going to fail. For this to happen, fishermen need to want to participate and know how to participate, and government has to make room for them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nParticipants will continue to gain from 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s singular approach to fisheries management after returning to Indonesia: CRC and 溏心vlog免费B站 Fisheries Center staff will stay in touch with them to gauge their progress and offer advice.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. — A delegation of Indonesian officials studied sustainable fisheries management at 溏心vlog免费B站 in September and returned home with much more than the luggage they arrived with. They took home knowledge, skills and a commitment to craft their nation\u2019s first fisheries management plan. Sixteen government and university representatives participated in the three-week program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}