Interview with Dr. Ken Sherman, one of two winners of the 2010 Goteborg Award for Sustainable Devel

ACCRA, 17 Nov - Fisheries Scientist KennethSherman and Conservationist Randall Arauz are the 2010 joint winners of the Göteborg Award for Sustainable Development which they are due to receive today at a ceremony in Göteborg, Sweden’s second largest city.

The Award is given every year. It was founded in 1999 by the City of Göteborg and several businesses to "stimulate and encourage strategic work for national and international sustainable development". The Göteborg Award website says Sherman and Arauz “have in different ways strongly contributed to finding solutions for a sustainable relationship with our oceans”. Sherman conceived, developed and promoted the concept of Large Marine Ecosystems, as a way of identifying and managing “distinct ecosystems based on topography, water depths and currents, productivity and food chain interactions”.

Sherman is director of the Fisheries’ Office of Marine Ecosystems Studies at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and of its Fisheries Laboratory at Narragansett, Rhode Island. Sherman spoke to the Interim Guinea Current Commission/Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem project on 23 October about this award and the 63 other Large Marine Ecosystems worldwide. This is an excerpt of that discussion.