Some of our nation’s earliest science on fish stocks depended on a trusting relationship between scientists and fishermen.
When the haddock stocks crashed in the early 1930s, federal fisheries scientists went to fishermen to collect catch information to understand the causes of the crash and to rebuild this staple food for New England.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service today continues to work with fishermen in New England and throughout the nation to study the abundance of fish, where they migrate, where and when they spawn, and how they are affected by fishing, other marine species, ocean currents, changing water temperature and ocean chemistry.
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