An official website of the United States government.
Official websites use.gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Full Title: Fish Gene Tools: A Co-Production Project to Incorporate Fisheries Genomic Tools into Next-Generation Stock Assessment This project will develop cutting-edge epigenetic ageing methods for Gulf fishes to improve the efficiency and accuracy of stock assessments. Lead Investigator: David S. Portnoy, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (david.portnoy@tamucc.edu) Natural Resource Manager: John Walter, NOAA … Continue reading
Full Title: Fisheries on the Move This project will estimate historical, current, and future trends in the targeting, distribution, and growth of select fish species and changes within fish communities along the latitudinal gradient of Florida’s west coast in relation to changing ocean conditions to support adaptive management of recreational and commercial fisheries. Lead Investigator: … Continue reading
Full Title: Cooperative Research and Management for Fish Spawning Aggregations in the Gulf of America This project team of scientists, fishers, and resource managers will work cooperatively to verify, characterize, monitor, and model multi-species fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) in the Gulf aiming to produce actionable science to facilitate FSA management and conservation. Photo courtesy of … Continue reading
Full Title: Operationalizing the West Florida Shelf ecosystem model and application to red tides, stock assessment, and catch advice for Gulf reef fish The project team will update and improve upon an ecosystem model of the West Florida Shelf to account for red tide mortality when assessing Gulf reef fish. The project will develop new … Continue reading
Full Title: Implementation of a research plan to guide decisions on place-based recreational fishery conservation in Charlotte Harbor, FL In Charlotte Harbor, the essential nursery habitats of snook and tarpon are vulnerable to urban development and have no explicit habitat protections. The project team seeks to better inform county and state governments’ decisions by creating … Continue reading
Full title: Building next-generation diagnostic and forecasting capacity to achieve management objectives by increasing stock assessment accuracy and throughput Management decisions about overfishing limits and acceptable biological catch estimates must be made for all harvested species subject to a fisheries management plan and are typically informed by stock assessments that model fishery dynamics and forecast … Continue reading
Full Title: Is the widening of secondary channels in Bahia Grande needed to improve habitat quality and productivity for its linked basins? Managers needed to know if the Bahia Grande ecosystem was functioning as a nursery and/or foraging grounds for fish to make informed decisions regarding whether to open Bahia Grande to public use. Lead … Continue reading
Full Title: Planning a next-generation forecasting platform to achieve stock assessment and management objectives The project team developed a roadmap for improving fishery forecasting by accounting for future environmental and management impacts to Gulf fisheries. Lead Investigator: Nathan Vaughan, Vaughan Analytics, nathan.vaughan1@gmail.com Natural Resource Managers: John Walter, Kate Siegfried, and Skyler Sagarese (NOAA Southeast Fisheries … Continue reading
Full Title: Integrating socioeconomic impacts into fisheries restoration decisions This project scoped and designed socioeconomic research to inform restoration planning decisions made for pollution incidents in the Gulf. Lead Investigator: Lydia Olander, Nicholas Institute, Duke University, lydia.olander@duke.edu Natural Resource Manager: John W. Barco, NOAA Office for Habitat Conservation, Restoration Division Project Team: David Yoskowitz (Harte … Continue reading
Full Title: Knowledge co-production for place-based recreational fishery conservation in Charlotte Harbor, Florida The project team identified challenges to sustaining sport fish nursery habitats, mapped out realistic management strategies, and planned research that informs management choices. Lead Investigator: Corey Anderson, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Corey.Anderson@MyFWC.com Natural Resource Manager: Shaun Cullinan, J.D., Charlotte County … Continue reading