NOAA
Fisheries Releases Response to National Academies Recommendations, Final
Version of MRIP Strategic Plan
NOAA Fisheries has released its
Framework for Addressing the National Academies Recommendations and the final
version of the five-year MRIP Strategic Plan. Both documents will serve as
important guideposts as we continue our commitment to making improvements to
catch and effort surveys and the resulting estimates.
Response
to National Academies Review
In January 2017, the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a comprehensive
follow-up review to their 2006 independent, expert analysis of MRIP. NOAA
Fisheries requested this follow-up review to measure MRIP’s progress in
implementing recommendations from the Academies' previous report. The review
and its findings will help us further refine our recreational fisheries
information collection efforts and prioritize our improvement efforts to best
meet the evolving needs of fisheries scientists, stock assessors, managers, and
stakeholders.
While the Academies recognized the
agency for making “impressive progress” over the past 10 years, the review also
highlighted some remaining challenges and offered a series of recommendations.
The Framework lays out our approach for addressing each of the Academies’
specific recommendations. The Academies report, Review of the Marine Recreational Information Program, is available
for PDF download on the National Academies Press website. The Framework
for Addressing the National Academies Recommendations is available on the MRIP website.
MRIP
Strategic Plan
The other document just released,
the five-year MRIP Strategic Plan, was developed by a Working Group with broad
federal and regional representation, and incorporates feedback from
stakeholders gathered during the public comment period. The Plan lays out a
clear, well-defined strategy for continuing to improve our survey methods,
while providing a sound basis for implementing new and expanded surveys through
a system of regional partnerships.
The Plan emphasizes enhancing
collaboration with partners, meeting customer needs, ensuring sound science and
quality products, and improving communications with partners and stakeholders.
It identifies specific strategies, tactics, outcomes, metrics, and timelines
for achieving these goals. The document also articulates MRIP’s mission,
vision, and values, and provides a detailed history and major milestones of the
Program.
The Plan and several supporting
documents can be
found here.
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