News Science Marine biologist James Sulikowski awarded $237,000 NOAA grant to research contentious issue of spiny dogfish stock |
Marine biologist James Sulikowski awarded $237,000 NOAA grant to research contentious issue of spiny dogfish stock |
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University of New England marine biologist James Sulikowski, Ph.D., has
placed himself in the middle of a contentious debate between
conservationists and the commericial fishing industry over the health
of the spiny dogfish stock.
Sulikowski, assistant professor, Department of Marine Sciences, has been awarded a $237,000 grant from the NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program to use satellite tags to examine the behavior of spiny dogfish in the Northwest Atlantic. The research will try to determine the habitat, depth and movement patterns of the spiny dogfish to better understand the inconsistencies in data collected by federal agencies and the commercial fishing industry. The status of the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, stock in the northwest Atlantic Ocean has become a volatile issue. Distributed from Labrador to Florida, this species was once considered to be the most abundant shark throughout this geographic range. |
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