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Selective gear research and development |
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Selective fishing gear to reduce or eliminate technical barriers to trade, minimize harvest losses, reduce bycatch, and improve fishing practices. |
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Evaluation of closed areas and closed area systems |
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Environmental condition, bio-diversity, oceanographic processes, and fisheries recruitment in areas closed to fishing. Development and use of non-invasive and non-fishing approaches. Historical character of these regions, based on knowledge of commercial fishermen in formulating hypotheses, designing and implementing the field studies. Impacts of area closures including changes to landscape and biota. |
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Fish habitat studies |
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Industry-based information for essential fish habitat designations. Improved accuracy and reliability of the underlying information. |
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Commercial harvest and species sampling |
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Species' distribution and abundance; effects of oceanographic patterns and processes; life history features, behavior, and dispersal. |
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Oceanographic and meteorological monitoring |
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Weather, sea-state, and oceanographic and fishing conditions in the coastal waters of the U.S. Synoptic coverage of large regions, use of satellite telemetry. Ocean monitoring, modeling, and prediction. |
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Socioeconomic impacts |
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Effects on the fishing industry and fishing communities from fisheries, coastal and ocean management decisions. Impacts of cooperative research. |
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Outreach and education |
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Approaches to enhance knowledge sharing among fishermen, scientists, and managers; K-12 involvement in cooperative research. |
