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Scientific
Program Committee
Structure and Terms of Reference |
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- Target
# of Members - 18 (including chair). The goal will
be to maintain a balance of fishermen and scientists.
For fishermen, strive to have representation from
each geographic area.
- Term
- 2 years. For continuity, have half change each
year so that each year there are nine new and nine
old committee members (based on availability of
people to replace them).
- Anyone
not participating on a regular basis will be contacted
by the chair and future membership on the committee
will be discussed.
- Working
groups will be established to develop certain projects.
The sub-committee will be appointed from the main
committee, and/or from a list of interested FSRS
members, and occasionally non-members when deemed
necessary for their expertise.
- The
committee will meet four times per year, or more
often if required. Meeting schedule: April or May,
August or September, November and January.
What do we do?
- review
proposals for scientific merit and value to fishermen
and acceptability to communities
- flushing
out proposals and figure out how to implement
- avenue
for fishermen to implement projects
- seek
ideas of interest to members
- project
updates
- maintain
and communicate an inventory of FSRS assets available
for use in projects, including equipment, vessels,
personnel, what data sets we have, etc. (eg: current
assets are minilogs, CTD’s, scales, measuring
boards, members’ vessels - need to determine
who/when willing to volunteer time and vessel and
who/when need expenses paid, for example up to half
a day will volunteer use of vessel, over that need
to be paid for fuel and other expenses, and what
the rates would be). This will be useful in soliciting
project proposals, for example from Dalhousie University.
- develop
guidelines for reviewing and approving project proposals
(ie: if we ever have a project fund available, what
type of projects will we look at).
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