June 27, 2012 – The UMass School for Marine Science and Technology has been awarded part of a $64,255 cooperative research grant for the study of monkfish by the NOAA Fisheries Service.
The scientists will try to determine whether the age of a monkfish can be accurately determined by dye-injecting their skeletal organs and observing the results a year or more later.
The principal investigators on the project are Dr. Steven Cadrin and Crista Bank of SMAST, Dr. Jonathan Grabowski of Northeastern University and Dr. Graham Sherwood of the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.
The Monkfish Research Set-Aside Program is jointly managed by the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils and is financed through the sale of set-aside quota during the fishing season. Research set-aside programs are unique to federal fisheries in the Northeast.
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