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Staff outlines tools to bring fishermen observations into council science and reports
Summary
The briefing proposed an email portal, evening fishermen sessions, fishery performance reports and on‑the‑water feedback tools to collect local knowledge for analysts and advisory bodies, with indigenous knowledge to be treated in a separate, later phase.
Council staff presented a series of proposals to integrate local knowledge (LK) into council decision‑making while sequencing indigenous knowledge (IK) work to a later phase. Staff argued LK and IK have different characteristics and should be handled distinctly: LK typically accrues over a few generations while IK can span much longer timescales.
Gilly explained several near‑term ideas drawn from other…
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