NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center (NOAA SWFSC) and the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego welcome the 2025 North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) Forum to the Pacific Coast. We invite our colleagues from North America and beyond to join us in La Jolla, California, from 25-28 March 2025.

You can find more information on NAAFE 2025 La Jolla, including Important Deadlines, at their website (https://cmbc.ucsd.edu/naafe/). We will also continue to send message and updates on the NAAFE 2025 Forum to the current and past NAAFE members listservs.

 

MAJOR TOPICS INCLUDE:

  • Climate impacts on fisheries & aquaculture
  • Seafood markets, trade, and climate considerations
  • Equity & environmental justice economics
  • Marine debris including the impact of microplastics
  • Alternative / overlapping ocean & coastal uses: wind energy, renewable energy, aquaculture
  • Marine protected areas, marine spatial planning
  • Ocean observing systems & social-ecological systems
  • Co-production of knowledge & research with Indigenous or local communities, including citizen science
  • Economic & social analysis of fishing and coastal communities
  • Integrating social science in climate and ocean system models
  • Recreational fisheries
  • Ecosystem Based Management
  • Integrating & applying human dimensions data in spatial considerations for marine ecosystem-based management