Centre of Marine Resource Management

The Centre of Marine Resource Management, also known as the MaReMa Centre or simply MaReMa, is an interdisciplinary research centre associated with the Norwegian College of Fishery Science at the University of Tromsø in Norway. Established in 2004, the centre conducts research on fisheries management and the governance of marine and coastal resources. Its work combines several fields that are needed to understand marine-resource systems, including resource biology, harvesting technology, bioeconomics and the social sciences. The centre’s subject is the management of marine resources rather than the commercial sale of consumer products. Its research is therefore relevant to questions such as how fish populations are assessed and conserved, how fishing technologies affect harvest outcomes, how economic incentives shape fisheries, and how coastal communities and institutions participate in resource governance. By bringing biological, technological, economic and social perspectives together, MaReMa addresses fisheries and coastal-zone issues as interconnected environmental and human systems. MaReMa is based at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science in Tromsø. The college provides an academic setting for fisheries, marine science and related research, while the centre’s interdisciplinary structure allows management questions to be examined beyond the boundaries of a single scientific discipline. The centre’s stated scope is international, although its institutional base and location are in Norway. Available reference material identifies research in fisheries and coastal-zone management as the centre’s core activity. It does not provide a detailed public account of individual projects, commercial offerings, leadership appointments, financial results, campaigns, controversies or later organizational changes. Accordingly, MaReMa is best described as an academic research centre and knowledge organization rather than a conventional consumer brand. Its public identity is associated with applied and interdisciplinary expertise in marine-resource governance, fisheries and coastal management.

The Centre of Marine Resource Management was established in 2004 by the Norwegian College of Fishery Science at the University of Tromsø. Its creation reflected the need for marine-resource management to draw on multiple forms of expertise. Fisheries and coastal systems cannot be understood solely through population biology or environmental science: decisions also involve fishing methods, economic incentives, institutional rules, community interests and wider social conditions. MaReMa’s research remit consequently spans resource biology, harvest technology, bioeconomics and social science. These areas give the centre a broad analytical base. Resource biology contributes knowledge about marine populations and ecological conditions; harvest-technology research examines how fishing and other extraction methods interact with resources; bioeconomics considers the relationship between resource conditions, costs, incentives and human behavior; and social science addresses governance, institutions and the communities affected by management decisions. The centre is located at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science in Breivika, Tromsø. Through that institutional connection, it forms part of the University of Tromsø’s academic environment. The centre’s research is described as international in scope and concerns fisheries and coastal-zone management issues beyond a single local fishery or jurisdiction. The available reference material does not document a sequence of rebrandings, mergers, major leadership changes, commercial product launches or public controversies. It also does not provide enough information to identify individual directors, researchers or major project dates. The documented history therefore supports a concise institutional account: MaReMa was founded in 2004 within the University of Tromsø’s Norwegian College of Fishery Science and developed as an interdisciplinary centre for research on fisheries and coastal-resource management.

• 2004

  Centre established

  [1]Centre of Marine Resource Managementen.wikipedia.org

  The Norwegian College of Fishery Science at the University of Tromsø established the Centre of Marine Resource Management, known as MaReMa.

An interdisciplinary academic research centre connecting biological, technological, economic and social perspectives on fisheries and coastal-zone management.

• Research

  Fisheries management research

  Research addressing the management of fisheries and marine resources, using biological, technological, economic and social perspectives. The available source describes this as a central area of the centre’s work but does not identify specific named programs or deliverables.

• Research

  Coastal-zone management research

  Interdisciplinary study of management issues affecting coastal zones. This area complements the centre’s fisheries work by considering marine resources within broader coastal environments and governance systems.

• Academic expertise

  Marine-resource expertise

  The centre brings together resource biology, harvest technology, bioeconomics and social science. Together, these disciplines support analysis of marine-resource use, fishing practices and the institutional and social dimensions of management.

1. 1Centre of Marine Resource Managementen.wikipedia.org