July 5, 2018 — A new collaborative research effort involving the Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries, NOAA Fisheries and the Department of Marine Resources could lead to significant changes in the way fisheries are managed in the Gulf of Maine.
In the works for more than two years, the research consortium will be known as the Eastern Maine Coastal Current Collaborative, or EM3C, Paul Anderson, new executive director of the Stonington-based Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries said last week.
The collaborative is the product of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement among the three parties signed last November, Anderson said.
Known in the bureaucratic world as a “CRADA,” the agreement is “a federal tool for engaging non-governmental entities” in joint scientific projects and it took a long time to come into being.
“Robin worked a couple of years to get it,” Anderson said, referring to center co-founder and retired executive director Robin Alden.