Collaborative Research Leads to Increased Catch Quotas for New England Fisheries
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Research by James Sulikowski, Ph.D., associate professor of marine sciences at University of New England, and John Mandelman, Ph.D., research scientist at the New England Aquarium, contributed to a recent emergency action by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to revise an existing policy and increase the amount of skate that fishermen can land this year.
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Scallops in Closed Areas: Do They Stay or Do They Go?
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During November, young scallops, which have drifted in the sea and along ocean currents since their parents’ late-summer spawning, are settling down on patches of sand and gravel seafloor along the Maine coast. No one knows where they have come from, or where exactly they will go, but some will land in a sheltered area and grow to market size. Maine’s scallop harvesters, who have been fishing discrete scallop beds in coastal waters for decades, already know that some places are better for Placopecten magellanicus than others.
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Marine Resource Education Program (MREP) 200 scheduled for November 16-17, 2011
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Cooperative Research Folks - We have a session of the Marine Resource Education Program (MREP) 200 scheduled for November 16-17, 2011 in Falmouth/Woods Hole. This is a 2 day program that focuses on how information is collected and used in the stock assessment process. It includes a tour of the Bigelow, the Center's net loft, the age and growth lab and talks and demonstrations about the data collection and stock assessment programs in the Center.
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NOAA Cod Stock Assessment Shakes Maine's Groundfish Industry
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In the groundfishing world, conventional wisdom is that Gulf of Maine cod is back. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, reported just three years ago that cod levels appeared to be improving at a time when other groundfish were still struggling. But preliminary NOAA data rocking the industry indicates that the exact opposite is happening.
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Weather satellite budget cuts a 'disaster in the making' - Obama official
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Jane Lubchenco, head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, criticises GOP moves to cut funding for critical satellite.
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