Stakeholder Workshop Report (21 April 2016)

A stakeholder workshop for NESP Project D1 ¿Ecosystem understanding to support sustainable use, management and monitoring of marine assets in the North and North-west regions¿ was held at the University of Western Australia, Perth, on 21 April 2016. The objective of the workshop was to identify stakeholder information needs in the North and North-west regions and use these to guide research activities in Project D1.

Stakeholders from State and Local Government departments, Industry, Fisheries, Conservation, and Indigenous groups each explained their priorities and issues in the North and North-west region, after which geographic focus, research scope, and data delivery needs were discussed across the group and prioritised through a post-workshop online survey.

From a stakeholder perspective, the geographic focus of research should be prioritised towards Commonwealth Marine Reserves (particularly the Kimberly and Gascoyne areas) and areas under the highest pressure. Stakeholders considered that research in Project D1 should be targeted towards using predictive models to characterise and map benthic habitats and demersal fish species. There was positive feedback from Stakeholders regarding the Northwest Atlas as a platform for the communication of research outcomes and as a repository for information relevant to management of the regions, with a number of suggestions made for making information more readily searchable within that framework.

Combined outcomes from the D1 Stakeholder Workshop and the earlier D1 Science Workshop will provide direction for future research within Project D1 and contribute to the National Prioritisation workshop with Project D3.

Citation: R. Przeslawski,K.J. Miller,J.J. Meeuwig., Ecosystem understanding to support sustainable use, management and monitoring of marine assets in the North and North-west regions - Stakeholder workshop report April 2016, Report in Marine Biodiversity Hub, National Environmental Science Programme (NESP)

2016年4月21日，于澳大利亚珀斯的西澳大学举办了国家环境科学项目（National Environmental Science Programme, NESP）D1项目的利益相关方研讨会，本次研讨会主题为「支持北及西北海域海洋资产可持续利用、管理与监测的生态系统认知」。

本次研讨会的目标为明确北及西北海域利益相关方的信息需求，并以此指导项目D1的相关研究工作。

来自州及地方政府部门、行业、渔业、保护领域以及原住民团体的利益相关方依次介绍了其在北及西北海域的工作重点与面临的问题；随后全体与会者围绕研究地理聚焦方向、研究范围以及数据交付需求展开讨论，并通过会后在线调研对各项内容进行优先级排序。

从利益相关方视角出发，研究的地理聚焦方向应优先覆盖联邦海洋保护区（尤其是金伯利（Kimberley）与加斯科因（Gascoyne）区域）以及受压力最大的海域。利益相关方认为，项目D1的研究应聚焦于利用预测模型对底栖生境（benthic habitats）与底层鱼类（demersal fish species）进行特征刻画与绘图。利益相关方对《西北海域图集》（Northwest Atlas）作为研究成果传播平台以及区域管理相关信息存储库的作用给予了积极评价，并就如何在该框架内提升信息检索便捷性提出了多项建议。

本次D1利益相关方研讨会与早前的D1科学研讨会的综合成果，将为项目D1的后续研究提供方向，并为与项目D3联合举办的国家优先级排序研讨会提供支撑。

引用格式：R. Przeslawski、K.J. Miller、J.J. Meeuwig. 《支持北及西北海域海洋资产可持续利用、管理与监测的生态系统认知——2016年4月利益相关方研讨会报告》，载于《海洋生物多样性枢纽（Marine Biodiversity Hub）报告》，国家环境科学项目（NESP）