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A Cooperative Partnership for Pelagic Ocean Ecosystem Monitoring in the Gulf of Maine

Improving the Size Selectivity for Northern Shrimp Through Use of a Modified Nordmore Grate

A Collaborative Program to Assess Possible Temporal Access to Closed Area II: Targeting Yellowtail Flounder Without Significant Bycatch of Cod and Haddock

A Collaborative Program to Reduce Bycatch and Discard in Gulf of Maine Otter Trawl Fisheries: Effect of Composite Mesh Codends on Trawl Selectivity

A New Role for the Commercial Fishing Fleet in Monitoring, Predicting and Managing Sea Scallop Resources

A Preliminary Evaluation of Stretch-Mesh Catch Controls

A Rope Robot for Right Whales

A Series of Meetings to Discuss Bycatch Reduction Techniques with Industry

A Test of Baited Underwater Video as a Fisheries Assessment Tool

Abundance, Migration and Recruitment of Northern Shrimp in the Gulf of Maine: An Industry-Initiated Verification Survey and Environmental Monitoring Pilot Project

Adopt-A-Boat: Commercial Fishing Vessels in K-12 Education

An Atlas-Based Audit of Fishing Territories, Local Knowledge, and the Potential for Community Participation in Fisheries Science and Management

An Automated, Comprehensive Monitoring Program for the Atlantic Offshore Lobster Fishery
Development FY 2001
Implementation FY 2002

Analysis of Right Whale Ship Strike Management Options

Are We Using Herring to Farm Lobsters? The Effect of Herring Bait on Lobster Growth, and Fate of Discarded Bait in the Benthic Communities

Assessing Risk Factors in Right Whale Vessel Collision Using an Acoustic Recording Tag and Controlled Sound Exposure

Atlantic Herring Stock Discreteness and Migration: A Coded Microwire Tagging Pilot Project in the Gulf of Maine

Atlantic Large Whale Disentanglement Program

Benthic Habitat Correlates of Juvenile Fish Distribution in the Bigelow Bight & Adjacent Estuaries

Collaborative Research Reporter

Commercial Trials of Flexible Trawling Devices Including Soft Trawl

Comparison of Environmental Contaminants on Georges Bank and Stellwagen Bank

Correlation of Silver Hake Abundance with Bottom Water Temp's/Stock ID Using Microsat DNA

Design and Test of a Double Grid Device to Reduce Cod Bycatch in Flatfish Trawls

Determining Groundfish Species Movement Patterns in Closed Areas

Developing a Computer Simulation Framework for Identifying an Optimal Fishery-Independent Survey Program for the ME Sea Urchin Population

Developing Stock Assessment Methods for the New England Deep Sea Red Crab Fishery

Development and Demonstration of a Whale-Free Buoy for Commercial Fishing

Development of a Breakaway Unit for Lobster Pot Vertical Float Lines

Development of a Fishermen-Designed Electronic Logbook System for the Northeast Multispecies Fishery

Development of a Hydrodynamic Cover for Conducting Experiments on Selectivity of Trawl Codend Onboard Fishing Vessels

Development of a Net to Reduce Bycatch of Cod in the Flounder Fishery

Development of a Whiting Fishery in the Gulf of Maine that Meets Conservation Goals for Size Selectivity and Bycatch

Distribution and Abundance of Jonah Crabs, Cancer borealis, in the Near-Shore Gulf of Maine

Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps
Phase I: Temperature
Phase II: Salinity
Phase III: Data Management Centers

Establishing a Groundfish Study Fleet to Improve Stock Assessments

Expanding the Use of the Sweepless Raised Footrope Trawl in Small-Mesh Whiting Fisheries

Field Testing of Improved Pingers in the Sink Gillnet Fishery

Fishermen Assisting Gear Technologists & Scientists

Fishing Vessel Survey of Coastal Herring Spawning Aggregations, FY 2000, FY 2001
Fishing Vessel Survey and Migration Study of Coastal Herring Spawning Aggregations in the Gulf of Maine, FY 2002

Gear Modification to Address Right Whale Entanglement

Groundfish Trawlnets Designed to Reduce the Bycatch of Cod

Gulf of Maine Inshore Trawl Survey

Gulf of Maine Ocean Quahog Assessment

Hearing in the North Atlantic Right Whale

Hi-resolution industry-conducted fishery resource survey

Identification of Life History Parameters for Two Exploited Skate Species (Amblyraja radiata and Malacoraja senta) in the Gulf of Maine: Strategies for Fisheries Management

Impact of Trawling on the Seabed in the Gulf of Maine

Improving the Selectivity and Utility of Demersal Hook Fishing

Industrial Training Workshop on Selectivity and Conservation During Trawling

Inshore/Offshore Patterns of Lobster Larvae & Postlarvae in the Northern Gulf of Maine, with Implications for Spatial Relationships between Egg Production and Settlement

Institutionalizing Social Science Data Collection

Intensive Study of the Western Gulf of Maine Closure Area

Long-Term Ecosystem Monitoring in the Gulf of Maine

Maine Scallop Fishery Monitoring and Enhancement

Mapping Spawning and Hatching Grounds of the American Lobster

Marine Resource Education Project

Monkfish Cooperative Research Project: Gillnet Survey & "Study Fleet"

Morphological Aspects of Reproductive Failure in Northern Right Whales

Non-Invasive, Real Time Assessment of Sea Scallop Abundance & Habitat

Observing the Effects of Smooth Bottom Net Trawls on the Seabed

Ongoing Multi-Year NMFS Gear Research

Operational Testing of a Low Strength Weak Link for Surface Buoys and a Knotless Line Fastener for Reducing the Risk and Consequences of Right Whale Entanglement

Organization of Seven One Day Workshops on Industry-based Surveys and Study Fleets

Passive Acoustic Methods for Detection of Right Whale Sounds: Increased Information on Numbers and Distribution

Photogrammetry of Right Whales

Recommendations for Conducting a Collaborative Cod-Tagging Program for New England and Maritime Canada

Reducing Cod Bycatch in Flounder Nets in the Gulf of Maine by Using Shallower Gillnets

Reducing Seabed Contact of Trawling: A Semi-Pelagic Trawl for the Gulf of Maine Shrimp Fishery

Relationship Between Right Whale Sightings and Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperature

Reproduction Studies of Right Whales Using Fecal Steroid Hormone Metabolites

Right Whale Research and Monitoring in the Bay of Fundy: 2001

Right Whales, Calanus, and Climate: Distribution and Abundance of Right Whales Relative to Their Prey

Saco Bay Scallop Stock Enhancement

Satellite-Monitored Radio Tracking of Right Whales

Socioeconomic Impact Assessment Enhancement Project: Analysis of Impacts from Fishing Capacity Reduction.

Soft Species Separation System for the New England Multispecies Fishery

State of Maine Large Whale Take Reduction Plan

Surveillance, Monitoring, and Management of Right Whales and Habitat of Cape Cod Bay: 2002

Testing Bycatch in an Observer-based Experimental Shrimp Fishery Conducted in an Area of Higher Groundfish Concentration

Testing of Low-Profile Low Cod Bycatch Gillnets

Testing the effect of different mesh shapes and excluder devices on species and size selectivity in a multispecies fishery

The Identification of Cod and Haddock Spawning Habitat Using Passive Acoustics

Trophic Ecology of Atlantic Cod: Insights from Tri-Monthly, Localized Scales of Sampling

Understanding the Habitat Consequences of Area Closures

Use of Light and Illuminated Ropes to Prevent Right Whale Entanglement

Use of Skin Biopsies to Characterize Contaminant Susceptibility Genes in the North Atlantic Right Whale

Workshop on Trawl Selectivity and Conservation

 

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