| 2005 Awards |
| Award# |
Title |
PI/Institution |
1st Interim Report |
1st Annual Report |
2nd Interim Report |
2nd Annual Report |
Final Report |
| P6UZO124 |
Workshop to plan the evaluation of community hatchery-based lobster enhancement |
Ames/Penobscot East |
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PDF |
| 07-008 |
Inshore Gulf of Maine survey of Atlantic herring sentinel spawning grounds |
Annala/GMRI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 06-139 |
Designing and testing a sublegal lobster sampling trap |
Bayer/The Lobster Institute |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| P6UZO136 |
Pilot project to assess need and initialize a methodology to groundtruth existing multi-beam and side-scan sonar seafloor charts |
Bergeron/MFP |
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PDF |
| 111A20 |
Genetic identification of Atlantic cod spawning stocks in U.S. waters using microsatellite and SNP DNA markers |
Berlinsky/UNH |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| NOAA Fisheries 2 |
Yellowtail Flounder Tagging Study (’06) |
Cadrin/NEFSC |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 06-115 |
Testing raised webbing gillnets to reduce bycatch of cod while targeting Pollock |
Eayrs/GMRI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 06-133 |
Pilot project to test the use of side-scan sonar to identify seafloor features associated with pre-spawning and spawning cod aggregations |
Ford/MA DMF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 06-083 |
Employment, income, working conditions and vessel safety in New Bedford before and after Amendment 13 to the multispecies management plan |
Georgianna/U Mass D |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 06-117 |
Cooperative random stratified ventless lobster trap survey in MA Bay - Year 2 |
Glenn/MA DMF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 06-119 |
Evaluation of closed areas: Cashes Ledge as juvenile cod habitat |
Grabowski/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 111A21 |
Modifying the Nordmore grid to reduce fish discard and small shrimps in the Gulf of Maine shrimp fishery |
He/UNH |
PDF |
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PDF |
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| 111A28 |
Design and test a monkfish grid to reduce juvenile monkfish in the Gulf of Maine multispecies trawls |
He/UNH |
PDF |
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PDF |
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| 111A42 |
High opening kite assisted raised footrope trawl |
He/UNH |
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PDF |
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PDF |
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| 111A22 |
Activity and distribution of cod in the Ipswich Bay spawning area |
Howell/UNH |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 06-121 |
New Generation Trawl for efficiency and conservation |
Jordan/Jordan Marine |
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PDF |
| 07-007 |
Ecological role of adult and juvenile anadromous forage fish in downeast Maine estuaries: Sea-run alewife and groundfish predators |
K.Wilson/USM |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 111BO4 |
To explore the potential for a non-trawl, low bycatch means of harvesting the increasingly abundant haddock resource |
La Valley/UNH |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 06-135 |
Building on Promise: Continued investigation in using a 4-seam bottom trawl to improve escapement of small haddock and cod |
Morse/ME Sea Grant |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 07-062 |
Use of positively buoyant ground cables and sweep to reduce seabed contact and to enhance species selectivity |
Morse/ME Sea Grant |
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PDF |
| NOAA Fisheries 1 |
Development of tagging methods for monkfish Lophius americanus |
Richards/NEFSC |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 07-030 |
Haddock migration in New England waters: Year Two analysis of closed area and stock boundaries |
Rudolph/CCCHFA |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 06-134 |
Testing a fixed gear resource survey method for inshore areas |
Salerno/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 06-089 |
Continuation of the ME/NH Inshore Trawl Survey |
Sherman/ME DMR |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 08-006 |
Is Closed Area 1 serving as a refuge for haddock? |
Sherwood/GMRI |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 07-016 |
Field testing of a novel application to examine habitat use and migration patterns of the spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) in the western Gulf of Maine |
Sulikowski/UNE |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 07-009 |
Industry-Science partnership investigating the short-term discard mortality of spiny dogfish caught using commercial hook gear in Gulf of Maine waters |
Tallack/GMRI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 06-082 |
Marine Resource Education Project: Transitioning from a successful project… |
Taylor Singer/GMRI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 111A23 |
Influence of water temperature on the distribution of berried females and duration of egg development in American lobsters |
Watson/UNH |
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PDF |
| P6ZO137 |
Development of video exploration and mapping capability, tools and methods |
Williamson/FV Sea Keeper |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 2006 Awards |
| Award# |
Title |
PI/Institution |
1st Interim Report |
1st Annual Report |
2nd
Interim Report |
2nd Annual Report |
Final Report |
| 07-072 |
Collaborative effort to examine new strategies for managing closed bottom habitats for sea scallops |
Beal/Downeast Institute |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 07-052 |
PULSE: A cooperative partnership for ecosystem monitoring in the western Gulf of Maine |
Bergeron/MFP |
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PDF |
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PDF |
| 111B03 |
Genetic identification of Atlantic cod spawning stocks in U.S. waters using microsatellite and SNP DNA markers (Yr 2) |
Berlinsky/UNH |
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PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 07-073 |
Analysis of size selectivity and bycatch in the gillnet fishery for monkfish |
Eayrs/GMRI |
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PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 08-097 |
Development and demonstration of acoustic height control for trawl doors |
Goudey/MIT Sea Grant |
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| 07-123 |
Evaluation of closed areas: Cashes Ledge as juvenile cod habitat (Yr2) |
Grabowski/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 111B12 |
Effects of the Western Gulf of Maine Closure Area on groundfish populations in rocky habitats |
Grizzle/UNH |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 111B13 |
Design and test a wheeled footgear to reduce seabed impact of trawling |
He/UNH |
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PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 111B15 |
Development of multibeam sonar as a fisheries tool for stock assessment and essential fish habitat identification of groundfish in the Western Gulf of Maine |
Howell/UNH |
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PDF |
| 111B11 |
Development of a juvenile shrimp trap for use in establishing a juvenile abundance index for the Gulf of Maine Northern shrimp, Pandalus borealis |
Jones/UNH |
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PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 08-059 |
Ecological role of adult and juvenile anadromous forage fish in downeast Maine estuaries: Sea-run alewife and predators
(Yr 2) |
K.Wilson/USM |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 07-085 |
Alternative to observer discard and fishing effort reporting |
Lee/FV Ocean Reporter |
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PDF |
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| 07-090 |
Determining effect of Eastern Maine bottom currents on groundlines |
Ludwig/GoMLF |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 09-024 |
Marine Resource Education Program (MREP) |
Mendelson/GMRI |
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PDF |
| 07-051 |
Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps (eMOLT) V: Realtime Temperature |
Pelletier/GoMLF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 07-030 |
Haddock migration in New England waters: Year two analysis of closed area and stock boundaries |
Rudolph/CCCHFA |
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PDF |
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PDF |
| 08-008 |
Exploring the potential inadvertent effects of Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank Area Closures on cod life-history variation |
Sherwood/GMRI |
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PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 07-091 |
Design, development, and field testing of an innovative circular net pen to be used to assess bycatch mortality of Atlantic cod at sea |
Sulikowski/UNE |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 07-087 |
Do rare earth metals deter spiny dogfish? A feasibility study on the use of magnets to reduce dogfish catches in hook and gillnet gear in the Gulf of Maine |
Tallack/GMRI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 07-080 |
Testing a method to evaluate deepwater settlement of the American lobster |
Wahle/Bigelow Labs |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
PDF |
| 2007 Awards |
| Award# |
Title |
PI/Institution |
1st Annual Report |
2nd
Interim Report |
2nd Annual Report |
3rd Interim Report |
Final Report |
| 09-020 |
Contemporary assessment of the bycatch of regulated species and the Nordmore grate in the northern shrimp fishery |
Eayrs/GMRI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 111B86 |
Spawning movement and habitat use of winter flounder in the southern Gulf of Maine |
Fairchild/UNH |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 09-042 |
Archival tagging study of monkfish, Lophius americanus |
Grabowski/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
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| 09-019 |
Examining fishing practices of divers in the Maine sea urchin fishery |
Hunter/ME DMR |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 111B12 |
Acoustic assessment of juvenile bluefin tuna aggregations: A feasibility study |
Lutcavage/UNH |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 09-038 |
Regional proposal to test sensors for detecting the sea squirt, Dedemnum sp. A on Georges Bank |
Pederson/MIT Sea Grant |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 09-047 |
DOGGRATE: Development of a spiny dogfish excluder in a raised footrope whiting trawl |
Pol/MA DMF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 09-048A |
POTYEAR: Determining the seasonality of cod pots |
Pol/MA DMF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
PDF |
| 09-031 |
Analysis of herring diet in coastal waters of the Gulf of Maine: A step toward assessment of bottom up ecosystem influences on Atlantic herring distribution and condition in coastal waters of the Gulf of Maine |
Runge/GMRI |
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PDF |
| 09-022 |
Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps (eMOLT) VI: Bottom Currents |
Sheremet/URI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 2009 Awards |
| Award# |
Title |
PI/Institution |
1st Interim Report |
1st Annual Report |
2nd
Interim Report |
2nd Annual Report |
Final Report |
| 11-027 |
Evaluating the practicality and economic viability of a pilot redfish jig fishery |
Baukus/GMRI |
PDF |
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PDF |
| 10-082 |
Herring sorting grid |
Baukus/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
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| 111C61 |
Defining Atlantic wolffish aggregations in Massachusetts Bay |
Fairchild/UNH |
PDF |
PDF |
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111675 |
Synoptic acoustic and trawl surveys to characterize biomass and distribution of the spring spawning aggregations of Atlantic cod in Ipswich Bay |
Howell/UNH |
PDF |
PDF |
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| 07-074 |
Environmental Management Systems training for fishermen |
Levin/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
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| NEFSC |
Validation of New England’s coastal circulation: Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps (eMOLT) VII |
Manning/NEFSC |
PDF |
PDF
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Movement and migration patterns of winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) tagged along the Maine coast |
Stepanek/ME DMR |
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PDF
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Application of broadband sonar technology for fisheries assessment and research |
Stockwell/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
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| 10-073 |
Is the OLFISH electronic monitoring system a feasible tool for improving fishery-dependent data for the deep water red crab fishery? |
Tallack/GMRI |
PDF |
PDF |
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| 2009 Supplemental Project Development Awards |
| Award# |
Title |
PI/Institution |
1st Interim Report |
1st Annual Report |
2nd Interim Report |
2nd Annual Report |
Final Report |
| 111D01 |
Understanding
the biological characteristics of the Acadian redfish in
U.S. waters |
Berlinsky/UNH |
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| 11-142 |
Reducing
juvenile alewife |
blueback,
and American shad bycatch in the coastal pound net and floating fish
trap fisheries,Brown/ME DMR |
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| 12-002 |
Estimation of
discard mortality of yellowtail and winter flounder |
Cadrin/SMAST |
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| 111D02 |
Studying the
population structure of the channeled whelk (Busycotypus canaliculatus)
fishery |
Fairchild/UNH |
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| 111D06 |
Modified
shrimp trawl for deep water bycatch reduction and size sorting |
La
Valley/UNH |
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| 12-001 |
Direct
assessments of juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna using sonar and aerila
technologies: Optimizing detection methods |
Lutcavage/U
of Mass. Amherst |
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| 12-005 |
Video and
hook-and-line survey to further knowledge of cusk (Brosme brosme)
habitat preferences |
Sherwood/GMRI |
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| 12-004 |
The use of
settlement collectors to investigate the early life history of Atlantic
wolffish (Anarhichas lupus) and cusk (Brosme brosme) in the Gulf of
Maine |
Sulikowski/UNE |
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| 111D05 |
Biological
and oceanographic mechanisms influencing lobster larvae dispersal in NH
coastal waters |
Watson/UNH |
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