RESPONSIBLE OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE

RODA is working to design and implement new models for persistent, long-term, holistic, and collaborative research programs that effectively gather and communicate fishery-dependent and -independent data and expertise. It is approaching this through two channels: facilitating grassroots, fishing industry-driven efforts to enhance fishermen's ability to effectively bring their own expertise to the table, and-separately but relatedly-working in partnership with regulators and other ocean use proponents to ensure that fishermen are fully included in appropriate efforts to assess interactions between fisheries stocks and new ocean use and development... Our approach is to directly collaborate with relevant regulatory agencies (e.g., National Marine Fisheries Service, Bureau of Ocean Energy management, U.S. Coast Guard, fishery management councils, and state agencies), offshore developers, science experts, and others to coordinate science and policy approaches to managing development of..

Primary location: Washington United States