The Northeast Fisheries Science Center is the research arm of NOAA Fisheries in the region. The Center plans, develops, and manages a multidisciplinary program of basic and applied research to: (1) better understand living marine resources of the Northeast Continental Shelf Ecosystem from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras, and the habitat quality essential for their existence and continued productivity; and (2) describe and provide to management, industry, and the public, options for the conservation and utilization of living marine resources, and for the restoration and maintenance of marine environmental quality.
Proposed Bottom Trawl Design Specifications for the proposed NEFSC Research Survey bottom
trawl. This was designed for the new research vessel
R/V Henry B. Bigelow which is currently under construction. Comments are requested.
Final Reports for SAW 39 Now Available.
The Northeast Regional Stock
Assessment Workshop or SAW is a formal scientific peer-review
process for evaluating and presenting stock assessment results
to managers.
Right Whale Aerial Surveys
The Western North Atlantic Right Whale population has been holding steady at approximately 300 individuals, making it one of the most critically endangered of the great whales. See how aerial surveys are helping protect them.
Fisheries Sampling Branch Website
The Fisheries Sampling Branch collects, processes and manages data and
biological samples obtained during commercial fishing trips. These data are
collected by trained fishery observers for scientific and fisheries management
purposes. Observed trips are required under many of the region's fishery
management plans, and for some fisheries by other federal laws and authorities.
The
Sociocultural and Economic Survey Initiative In late
1998, Congress appropriated five million dollars to NOAA to provide
emergency disaster assistance to persons or entities in the Northeast
multispecies fishery who incurred losses from a commercial fishery
failure due to declining stocks of groundfish. In return for receiving
compensation, participants agreed to either make their vessel
available for cooperative research projects, and/or to respond
to this survey.
Cooperative
Black Sea Bass Tagging Project
The Cooperative Black Sea Bass Tagging Project was designed to
examine the population size, exploitation rate and seasonal movements
of the northern Atlantic coast black sea bass, Centropristis
striata.
Right
Whale Sighting Advisory System - The System provides real-time
right whale sighting information to the commercial shipping industry
and other marine traffic from air and ship surveys conducted by
several agencies and organizations and from verified opportunistic
sightings received primarily in the July - December period.
Expanding Opportunities in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Through coordination, collaboration, and communication, Expanding Opportunities interactions continue between NOAA and the academic community, particularly the Historically Black and Minority Serving Colleges and Universities (HBMSCU).
The Fisheries Sampling Branch collects, processes and manages data and
biological samples obtained during commercial fishing trips. These data are
collected by trained fishery observers for scientific and fisheries management
purposes. Observed trips are required under many of the region's fishery
management plans, and for some fisheries by other federal laws and authorities.
