Fisheries & Ocean Policy
Promoting Healthy Oceans & Fisheries
My office offers consultations, legal research and policy analysis services to individuals, businesses, NGOs, Think Tanks and academic institutions on a broad range of legal topics concerning the laws and regulations that govern Aquaculture, Marine Fisheries, Coastal Spatial Planning and Ocean Usage.
My services help clients to identify and understand the complex nature of competing, and often conflicting, activities in the marine environment. My research goals take me to where the facts reside and are geared toward finding ways of reducing conflicts among competing uses while promoting sustainable, compatible activities that further healthy coastal community economics.
Selected Publications and Presentations
2015
HabCam Operator
Georges Bank Sea Scallop Stock Assessment Survey Group. At-Sea scallop research project in closed areas to Hague Line June 2015. A Woods Hole Oceanographic tech sled towed on fiber optic cable
2014
Community Based Aquaculture Development
A grant submission to NOAA’s Saltonstall-Kennedy RFP. Prepared in conjunction with the City of Gloucester and Salem Sate University’s Cat Cove Northeast Aquaculture Center.
2013
Vermont School of Law
Guest Lecturer on Aquaculture.
2009
Southeast Aquaculture Assessment
A study of Aquaculture law and regulation in the Southeastern United States. Prepared for The Ocean Conservancy.
2008
Northeast Aquaculture Assessment
A study of Aquaculture law and regulation in the Northeastern United States. Prepared for The Ocean Conservancy.
2006
Vermont School of Law
Guest Lecturer on Aquaculture.
2004
Hoagland, P., Jin, D., Kite-Powell, H., Riaf, K. Improving the Regulatory Framework for Marine Aquaculture, Regional Planning and Economic Decision-making.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Marine Policy Center
2002
Hoagland, P., Jin, D., Jarvin, D., Riaf, K. (NMFS SK) Aquaculture Regulation: Economic and Legal Models for the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
1999
Sea Scallop Working Group
Aquaculture Blueprint Policy Recommendations Proceedings 2nd SSWG Summit
1999
Sea Scallop Working Group Summit Conference
Presenter UMass Policy Center for Marine Biosciences and Technology.
1999
Goudey, C., Smolowitz, R., Riaf, K. et al.
Sea Scallop Enhancement and Sustainable Harvesting
(SeaStead) MIT SeaGrant
1998
Mook, B., Riaf, K., Taylor, R.
Fisherman Friendly Production Strategies for Sea Scallops.
NMFS FIG
1996
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Aquaculture Conference.
Presenter, Riaf, K. - Massachusetts Pioneers and Their Obstacles.
1993
Wypyzinsky, A., Riaf, K., et. al.
NRAC: Rutgers University SeaGrant Improving the Legal Framework for Aquaculture in the U.S.