CFRF-Funded Projects

  1. The Reduction of Butterfish and Scup Bycatch in the Inshore Loligo Squid Fishery

  2. Discard Mortality Estimation of the Southern New England Flatfish Complex Using RAMP Methods

  3. Job Satisfaction, Well-being and Change in Southern New England Fishing Communities

  4. Examining Settlement Dynamics of Postlarval American Lobster, (Homarus americanus), in Lobster Management Area 2

  5. The Buzzards Bay Lobster Resource: Are Changes in Reproduction Having a Negative Impact on the Fishery?

  6. Evaluation of a New Turtle Excluder Device (TED) Design in the Southern New England and Mid-Atlantic Summer Flounder Trawl Fisheries

  7. Temporal Aspects of Habitat Utilization and Interspecies Competition: Defining the Ecological Impacts of Spiny Dogfish in Structuring the Ecosystem Dynamics of Southern New England

  8. Expansion of the Coastwide Ventless Lobster Trap Survey in Southern New England

  9. An Assessment of Quahog Larval Supply and Distribution in the Upper Narragansett Bay with a Focus on Spawning Sanctuaries and Alternative Area Management Strategies

  10. Assessment of Potential Value of Sea Scallop Viscera Hydrolysate as Specialty Aquaculture Feed and Marine NutraceuticalI Ingredients

  11. Data Collection and Analysis in Support of Single and Multispecies Stock Assessments in the Mid-Atlantic: North East Area Monitoring and Assessment Program Nearshore Trawl Program, 2011

  12. Mapping and Characterizing Fish Habitat in Rhode Island and Block Island Sounds

  13. Is Cape Cod a Natural Delineation for Migratory Patterns in US and Canadian Spiny Dogfish Stocks?

  14. A Method to Reduce Winter Flounder Retention Through the Use of Avoidance Gear Adaptations in the Small Mesh Trawl Fishery Within the Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder Stock Area

  15. Design and Test of an Innovative Large Mesh Whiting Trawl to Reduce Spiny Dogfish Bycatch in the Southern New England Whiting Fishery

  16. An Industry-based Survey for Yellowtail Flounder in Southern New England

  17. A Fisherman-Scientist Collaboration to Re-assess Lobster Nurseries in Narragansett Bay After Two Decades of Environmental Change

  18. Determining Size and Age at Maturation as well as Monitoring Seasonal Gonadal Changes for the Channeled Whelk in Buzzard’s Bay, Martha’s Vineyard Sound and Nantucket Sound

  19. An Industry-Based Survey for Winter Flounder in Southern New England

  20. Trials to Reduce Winter Flounder Retention in the Small Mesh Squid Trawl Fishery Through the Combination of a 12” Drop Chain Sweep and a Large Mesh Belly Panel within the Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic Winter Flounder Stock Area

  21. Testing of a Low Profile Excluder Dredge for Winter Founder Bycatch Reduction

  22. Preliminary Test of a Modified Groundfish Trawl to Reduce the Catch of SNE Winter Flounder in the Large Mesh Groundfish Fishery-Part I

  23. Preliminary Test of a Modified Groundfish Trawl to Reduce the Catch of SNE Winter Flounder in the Large Mesh Groundfish Fishery – Part II

  24. An Evaluation of the Avoidance Gear 12” Drop Chain Sweep as a Method to Reduce Winter Flounder Retention in the Small Mesh Squid Trawl Fishery within the SNE/MA Winter Flounder Stock Area

  25. Testing of a Low Profile Excluder Dredge for Winter Founder Bycatch Reduction

  26. Testing of a Modified Groundgear to Reduce the Catch of SNE Winter Flounder in the Large Mesh Groundfish Fishery

  27. Gear Trials Program At Sea Research - Reduction of Winter Flounder Bycatch in the Whiting Fishery

  28. Groundline/Exchange Conversion Plan