SAVE THE DATES: Monday and Tuesday June 27-28 In light of emerging stock structure paradigms, a public workshop will be convened in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to explore how fisheries management can better integrate data on finer-scale stock structure and ecological processes in achieving optimum sustainability of fishery resources. Potential costs and benefits of incorporating...
Despite years of increasing regulations, studies and commissions, pressures on our oceans are not subsiding as oil spills and natural disasters continue to alter the balance. Add to the mix uncertain economic times that decrease funding that should be increasing for important programs and the challenges still abound. In our next full issues, we...
A recent retrofit project at the School Street School in Rochester, New Hampshire is helping to reduce stormwater pollution in a tributary of the Cocheco River, while giving local youngsters a hands-on experience in protecting water quality in their community.
It is not news that fish stocks are much diminished in the Gulf of Maine. But a new report on the fisheries history of Stellwagen Bank provides insights into the complex interaction of humans and the marine ecosystem that has contributed to this decline.
Hake, a type of fish similar to Atlantic cod and haddock, not only have an important ecological niche as both predator and prey in ecosystems worldwide, and particularly in the Northwest Atlantic, but they have been a significant component of fisheries since at least the 1950s.
Redfish, like several Gulf of Maine fisheries, was once heavily targeted and fell to all-time low stock abundances in the mid-1980s. However, through a series of time and area closures, fishing gear restrictions, minimum fish size limits, formal rebuilding plans, and other measures by the New England Fishery Management Council (at significant sacrifice...
