Saving Seafood

Tropical Fish in Cape Cod Waters: “The More You Look, the More You See.”

October 24th, 2016 — Gulf Stream Orphans are appearing in our region. That’s not the name of a rock band, and they’re not unaccompanied children. Gulf Stream Orphans is the research term for Caribbean fish that show up in our Cape Cod waters, and scientists are looking to see if their numbers are increasing.

Owen Nichols, Director of Marine Fisheries Research at the Center for Coastal Studies, joins us to talk about these fish, what types they represent, and new efforts to understand whether they’re appearing more often, or simply being noticed more now that researchers are looking for them.

Read the full story and listen to the audio at Cape and Islands 

Recognition Given to Provincetown Researcher

October 18th, 2016 — The Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown is announcing that one of their researchers has been selected to receive a Fisheries Leadership award.

The recognition, the John Annala Fishery Leadership Award, will be given to Owen Nichols, the Director of the Center’s Marine Fisheries Research Program.

The award honors an early career scientist who is doing research that is relevant to Fisheries in New England is given by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, it was established in 2013.

It is named for the Gulf of Maine’s first chief scientific officer.

The current Chief Scientific Officer at the Maine Institute, Andrew Pershing, says that Nichols’s research on the ecology of squid, an important emerging species, and his commitment to doing collaborative research within the fishing industry are a great example of the kind of work the award was meant to recognize.

Read the full story at CapeCod.com