Richard A. Wahle Research Associate Professor School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 Charlene Bergeron School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Christine M. Tilburg Ecosystem Indicator Partnership, Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment Maine is perilously dependent on a single large fishery: the American lobster. This fisheries’ collapse would […]
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Susan Brawley School of Marine Sciences University of Maine 207.581.2973 Email Susan Brawley Large marine algae—also known as seaweed and sea vegetables—have been harvested off the coast of Maine for use as food and fertilizer for centuries. Today, wild harvest isn’t enough to supply an increasing demand for sea vegetable products, prompting greater interest in […]
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Hauke Kite-Powell Marine Policy Center Crowell 204 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, MA 02543 508.289.2938 Entanglement in fishing gear is, along with ship strikes, the dominant source of human-caused injury and mortality for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. Lobster gear has been implicated in a number of entanglement cases, and recent management decisions […]
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Franz Hover Room 5-207 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA 02139 617.253.6762 Email Franz Hover Using Technology to Assess the Impacts of the Invasive Sea Squirt Didemnum Vexillum, on Fisheries and Ecosystems – University of Maine In-situ Sound & Color Lab One of the most dominant and aggressive non-native species in the Gulf […]
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Laurie Connell School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 laurie.connell@umit.maine.edu Maine’s extensive and productive tidal flats are often closed to shellfish harvesting when harmful organisms known as Alexandrium or red tide are present. These algae contain a toxin that causes paralytic poisoning in people who eat contaminated shellfish. The Maine Department of […]
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Felipe Paredes School of Marine Sciences 217 Libby Orono, ME 04469 207.581.4325 felipe_paredes@umit.maine.edu Fouling of boat hulls, fishing gear, and marine infrastructure by aquatic organisms has always been a challenge for humans seeking to make a living on the water. Today, non-native species can aggressively cover underwater surfaces of aquaculture gear such as nets, floats, […]
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Daniel Holland Research Scientist, Resource Economics Gulf of Maine Research Institute 350 Commercial St. Portland, ME 04101 207.228.1643 dholland@gmri.org The New England groundfish industry continues to struggle despite tightened restrictions on harvest. Stock assessments and harvest guidelines are typically based on the concept of a “fish stock,” which may encompass a very large area. For […]
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Yong Chen 218 Libby Hall School of Marine Sciences University of Maine Orono , ME 04469 207.581.4303 Email Yong Chen In the U.S., most fisheries are managed on a species-by-species basis. Scientists and fishermen recognize that this conventional approach is often unsuccessful, because it does not account for the complexity of ecosystems, including interactions among […]
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