Six months ago the University of Massachusetts' Large Pelagics Research Center, headed by Gloucester resident Molly Lutcavage, mapped out plans to renovate the marine station at Hodgkins' Cove and breathe new life into that vacated facility.
Friday brought the center's grand opening, reviving UMass-Amherst's seafood research lab that had been headed by Professor Herbert Hultin from 1979 until his death in 2007.
The university and State Division of Marine Fisheries spent $400,000 on the renovation, turning the once-derelict research center into a functioning lab for Lutcavage's LPRC and the Division of Marine Fisheries.
Research on site, according to a summary from UMass, will focus on tuna and other large ocean-going, pelagic species, while state Marine Fisheries researchers will focus on lobster reproduction.
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