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Scientists Collecting Data on Commercial Fish Species in Wind-Energy Areas

Scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service have started a three-year study of Atlantic cod and other commercial fish species in southern New England waters. The goal is to gather baseline data to address how offshore wind development in the region could impact fisheries.

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Population-by-Population Fisheries Management Not Working

In a recently published paper, fisheries researchers suggest that scientists and resource managers need to focus on whole ecosystems rather than solely on individual populations.

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Researchers Find Decline in East Coast Commercial Shellfish Landings Linked to Environmental Factors

Researchers studying the sharp decline between 1980 and 2010 in documented landings of the four most commercially important bivalve mollusks have identified the causes.

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