A BLUEprint for Marine Resource Protection, Ms. Meaghan Brosnan

When done right, Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are extremely effective, sometimes quadrupling fish biomass in a decade. Strong management and enforcement, however, are key; too often MPAs are established on paper only, without the protections necessary to effect real change. WildAid’s BLUEprint for MPA Success responds to this threat by helping governments make marine enforcement effective and affordable. In this lecture, WildAid’s Marine Program Director, Meaghan Brosnan will describe the BLUEprint approach using case studies from places like the Galapagos and Raja Ampat, Indonesia, and its replicable framework.

About the Speaker

As WildAid’s Marine Program Director, Meaghan Brosnan oversees all aspects of WildAid’s Marine Protection work, including ongoing projects in Ecuador, Palau, Malaysia and Gabon. Meaghan has worked for nearly 15 years to reduce illegal fishing activity around the world, and is an expert in domestic and international fisheries management, compliance, and enforcement. She spent four years at-sea enforcing fisheries law, and served as the deputy chief of the Coast Guard’s Living Marine Resources Enforcement program. Meaghan was also the lead manager of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Ending Illegal Fishing Campaign, and later founded Exulans, Inc., a global consultancy providing compliance and enforcement solutions for ocean conservation to governments, the private sector, and non-governmental organizations. In these roles, Meaghan has worked in collaboration with senior government leaders and diverse public and private sector organizations in East Africa, Southeast Asia, the Western and Central Pacific, Central America and the United States. Meaghan continues to serve in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, leading a department in the San Francisco Bay area. When she is not nerding out on ocean conservation topics, Meaghan can be found kayaking, hiking or camping with her family.

Related Links/Pre-Reading

• Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective

• Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

• WildAid’s Nearshore Fisheries Enforcement Guide

Lecture Location:  McGowan 102

The McGowan Building is located at 411 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA, 93940, on the campus of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. Attendees should enter through the glass doors from Pacific Street, and room 102 is located inside to the right. View the campus map.

Parking

Parking is available in any Middlebury Institute campus lot after 5 p.m., or on the street (time limits on surrounding streets end at 6 p.m.)

Questions

Contact Rachel Christopherson at the Center for the Blue Economy at cbe@miis.edu or (831) 647-6615.