A field analysis of the behavioral and ecological factors determining Lobster catchability and trap saturation

Maine

Arrowtooth flounder consumption rates: Data for species interaction model

Alaska

Community structure,food web analysis, and organic matter dynamics in a brackish tidal creek within the Altamaha River Estuary - Richard

Georgia

Ecological constraints on establishment of a freshwater-resident population of Blueback Herring in the Mohawk/Hudson drainage

New York

Ecosystem and restoration analysis of the Smith River Estuary, California with emphasis on Anadromous Salmonids

California

Effects of hypoxia on feeding growth, and survival of juvenile fishes: Experimental assessment of the impact of low oxygen levels on nursery habitat quality

Delaware

Effects of hypoxia on movements, feeding, growth rates and survival of estuarine fishes and blue crabs

North Carolina

Essential fish habitat on the inner continental shelf

New Jersey

Developing incentives to restore and maintain productivity in exploited marine ecosystems

Oregon

Dynamics of the Lake Superior food web

Wisconsin

Factors affecting reproduction and development in the Pacific herring

California

Feeding behavior and gut evacuation in Atlantic mackerel and Atlantic herring

Rhode Island

Field tests of an Ecophysiological model of habitat value to predict performance and recruitment of juvenile marine fishes

North Carolina

Fisheries and food web dynamics in Lake Superior

Wisconsin

Georges Bank food web studies using polyclonal antibodies

South Carolina

Growth, transport and mortality studies of larval walleye pollock

Washington

Hagfish importance on benthic energy dynamics and commercial fisheries

Hawaii

Has local depletion of Walleye Pollock occurred in steller sea lion critical habitat?

Alaska

The influence of salinity on reproduction, egg and larval development of spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus)

Texas

Investigation of the estuarine Biological hydroloical predator-prey and habitat factors influencing Louisiana's white shrimp (Penaeus Setiferus) landing

Louisiana

Juvenile Salmon rearing in restored wetlands of the Salmon River Estuary

Washington

Linking estuarine water quality to Pelagic fish distribution and behavior: A multiscale approach applied to the Neuse River Estuary

North Carolina

Microcrustacean production potential during the of feeding by walleye pollock larvae in the Aleutian Basin

Alaska

Modeling Smallmouth Bass consumption of Round Goby in Lake Erie implications for predator growth and contaminant transfer

Ohio

Optimal nursery ground conditions for two species of Paralichthyid Flounder: Experimental determination of the effects of Physicochemical gradients

Delaware

Predator-prey models of New England fisheries

Rhode Island

Predatory impact of lobate ctenophores on commercially important fishes and their prey

Woods Hole

Rearing by juvenile Salmon in restored wetlands of the Salmon Rivr Estuary: Functional development with marsh age

Oregon

Reproductive strategies & their contribution to genetic diversity life cycle flexibility in the commercially important squid, Loligo pealei

Woods Hole

Role of protozoa in the diet of larval pollock in the Bering Sea

Washington

School structure and individual feeding behavior or bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus

Woods Hole

Sources and transport mechanisms of white shrimp in southern coastal waters

Georgia

Sustainability of the Lake Superior fish community: An analysis of opportunities and constraints

Wisconsin

Upwelling and the ecology of juvenile rockfish: A study using 14C natural abundance

California

Variation in feeding by larval walleye pollock in the Bering Sea: Prey selectivity and availability

Alaska

African-American participation in Georgia marine fisheries

Georgia

Analysis of time series of fisheries and oceanographic variables

Alaska

Behavioral & hydrodynamic components of postlarval bivalve transport within coastal embayments

Woods Hole

Circulation and exchange at the entrance to Narragansett Bay

Rhode Island

Circulation modeling for the S.E. Bering Sea

New Jersey

Early summer coastal upwelling: The effect on surf clam larval abundance and settlement

New Jersey

Examining larval transport and retention with the Beaufort Inlet

Woods Hole

Habitat differences in frontal regions around the Pribilof Islands and their importance to juvenile pollock growth and survival in the Bering Sea

Washington

Interpretation of larval distribution and transport using satellite-derived feature maps in the SABRE study site

Rhode Island

Investigation of the origin and dynamics of nutrients on the southeast Bering Sea shelf inrelation to dominant physical and biological processes

Texas

Larval dynamics and water exchange at the entrance to Narragansett Bay

North Carolina;
Rhode Island

Long-term variability in Alaska Sockeye Salmon 2: Effects of past climate on Salmon abundance

Alaska

Mechanisms of transport of decapod crustaceans through estuarine inlets

Georgia,
South Carolina

Modeling the transport of larval lobsters (Homarus americanus) in the Gulf of Maine

Independent/
Other

Monitoring and development of biophysical indices of the southeastern Bering Sea

California

Monitoring transport in the Alaska coastal current: A feasibility study

Alaska

Monitoring the upper ocean production dynamics of and larval pollock in the Bering Sea

California

Natural scale of variability in coastal marine ecosystems of the Northeast Pacific Ocean

Washington

Physical exchange processes at the Chesapeake Bay mouth

Virginia

Physical processes in the Chesapeake Bay mouth and their relationships to biological recruitment

Virginia

Process studies of physical-biological interactions and larval fish on Georges Bank

Georgia

Simulation of larval transport from the Texas coastal ocean to bay

Texas

Sources and transport mechanisms of white shrimp in southeastern coastal waters

South Carolina,
Georgia

A study of water and larvae transport in Beaufort Inlet, NC

Woods Hole

Tidal fronts as site for enhanced predatory/prey interaction of larvae of commercial and sport fishes

Maine/
New Hampshire

Towards a fisheries ecosystem plan for Northern California current

Washington

Transport of fish larvae through a tidal inlet

North Carolina

Transport mechanisms and estuary/tidal creek exchanges of white shrimp in contrasting high and low discharge southeastern estuaries

South Carolina

Transport and settlement of crab and urchin larvae in the northern California coastal ocean

California

U.S. GLOBEC: Broad-scale studies of nutrients and phytoplankton on Georges Bank

Maine,
New Hampshire,
Rhode Island

Variability and stability of climatic/oceanographic regimes in the Pacific Northwest

Oregon

Biological and economic modeling and assessment of limited entry strategies in multi-species fisheries in south Florida

Florida

Biology and management of rockfish stocks

Washington

Bycatch reduction device (BRD) exclusion mortality: Diver and remote camera studies

Georgia

Case studies in co-management of marine fisheries

Maine,
New Hampshire

Causes and impediments of lake trout recovery in Lake Superior

Wisconsin

Developing indices necessary for predicting commercial catches of the American lobster Homarus americanus

Maine
New Hampshire
Rhode Island

Determinants of fishing strategies: An empirical study using trawl logbooks

Oregon

Effects of fishing and reserve protection on Caribbean fish communities

Puerto Rico

Evaluation of harvest refugia II: Effects of fishing pressure on fish assemblage structure and movements

Hawaii

Factors affecting early survival and management of Lake Ontario Salmonine populations

New York

Great Lakes fisheries and management

Michigan

Harvest refugia as fisheries management tools: An empirical evaluation

Hawaii

The impact of access limitation on a system of linked fisheries

Oregon

Impacts of turtle excluder designs (TED) and bycatch reduction designs (BRD) on overall finfish bycatch reduction and their relative effects on management strategies adopted in directed finfish fisheries

Florida

Individual quota program design: Analysis of experience and options

California

Long-term effects of limiting access to Alaska's offshore fisheries

Alaska

Management of chaotic fisheries resource

Maine,
New Hampshire

Management and marketing adjustments to changing Lake Ontario sport-fisheries

New York

Management of mixed stock fisheries: New directions

Washington

Management of Spiny Lobsters in South Florida based on postlarval supply and juvenile dynamics

Florida

Management strategies for the Great Lakes recreational salmonid fisheries in the face of environmental variability

Michigan

Manging Salmon fisheries for quality

Alaska

Mathematical/computer analysis of the design and function of marine fisheries reserves

Puerto Rico

Monitoring effects of IFQ's in the Alaska halibut and sablefish fisheries

Alaska

No harvest conservation areas for sea urchins in Maine: Exploring new tools for sustaining the fishery

Maine,
New Hampshire

Population genetics and management of nearshore rockfishes (Sebastes) taken in the live fish fishery

California

Reef fish population movement studies for design and management of marine fisheries reserves

Puerto Rico

Rights based fisheries management: Legal and economic analysis of new approaches

Maine,
New Hampshire

Setting escapement goals to account for climate fluctuations and uncertainty

Alaska

Solving TED and BRD problems through underwater videos

Georgia

Spatial management of fisheries

California

Species selectivity in the New England groundfish fishery: Behavior of the fish and fishers

Rhode Island

Sustainability and the economics of fisheries management: A Lake Superior case study

Wisconsin

Sustainability, uncertainty and the management of Lake Superior fisheries

Wisconsin

The transition period in ITQ fisheries management programs

Delaware

Understanding and managing variation in the Lake Michigan salmonine fishery

Michigan

The use of closed areas as fisheries management tool for new England fisheries: An analysis of the impact of displaced effort

Rhode Island

Cross shelf distribution patterns of larval fishes in a Caribbean coral reef environment and adjacent oceanic waters

Puerto Rico

Developing predictive tools for the American lobster fishery: Differentiating mortality in open populations

Maine,
New Hampshire

Disaggregated fisheries simulation models

Delaware

Dynamics of the mysid population in Lake Ontario

New York

Ecological and economic impacts of watershed restoration on salmonid productivity in Lake Michigan tributaries

Michigan

Effects of size selective mortality on the evolution of growth rate in fishes: Continued empirical simulation

New York

Estimating year class strength in inlets to Pamlico Sound

North Carolina

Extensions to a length-based population model for invertebrate populations

Alaska

Feasibility of assessing the population status of Atlantic sturgeon through monitoring of juveniles

New York

Food web dynamics of the Lake Michigan forage fish community: Causes and consequences

Wisconsin

Genetic effects of intensive fishing on Atlantic haddock: Molecular reconstruction from archived scale samples

Maine,
New Hampshire

The genetic population structure of the Lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens

Ohio

Habitat-mediated predator-prey interactions: Implication for sustainable production of Gag Grouper in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Florida

Influence of upwelling events on larval and juvenile Yellow Perch

Illions

Interdecadal change in California current zooplankton-retrospective analyses by opticalplank ton counter

California

Juvenile growth rates, Gonad development and muturation schedules in the Gray Snapper, Lutjanus Greseus

Louisiana

Larval dispersion off La Parguera: A modeling study

Puerto Rico

Larval dynamics and water mass exchange at the entrance to Narragansett Bay

Rhode Island

Length-weight population model for hard-to-age invertebrate populations

Alaska

Linking water quality and trophic interactions in a eutrophic coastal river: Movement patterns ,foraging, and mortality in Blue Crads

North Carolina

Long-term variability in Alaska sockeye salmon abundance

Alaska

Pelagic fish egg abundance and mortality estimation by cufer and real-time machine vision

California

Population dynamics of the blue crab in North Carolina: An integrated modeling, research and educational approach

North Carolina

Population dynamics of coral reef fish: Consequences of the pelagic to demersal phase transition on juvenile recruitment success

Ohio

Population dynamics of naturally spawning salmonines in Lake Ontario

New York

Population implications of juvenile fish mortality due to bycatch in trawl fishery

North Carolina

Sardine and anchovy variability in the California current over the past 1500 years

California

Source of vermilion snapper at reefs in southern Onslow Bay, North Carolina: Inference from molecular population genetics

North Carolina

The spatial dynamics of Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay

Maryland

Trace elemental fingerprinting of otoliths using ICPS-MS to determine the population structure of marine fishes

California

The use of molecular techniques to dissect the genetic architecture of pollock populations: Analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes by the polymerase chain reaction

California

Balancing the budget: Progress towards a stock recruit relationship for the James River oyster resource

Virginia

Biological and physical determinants of blue crab recruitment: Sources, sinks and metapopulation dynamics

Virginia

Ecological linkages among wetland, bay and shelf systems: I. Physical forcing as a fisheries recruitment enhancement mechanism

Louisiana

Ecology and reproductive biology of green sea urchins: Effects of habitat alteration on fishery recruitment processes

Maine,
New Hampshire

The effect of prey densities and nursery habitat on brown shrimp recruitment success

Texas

Effects of fishing-induced age truncation on recruitment and reproductive potential in black rockfish

Oregon

Effects of habitat alteration on fishery recruitment processes

Maine,
New Hampshire

Establishing the importance of postlarval supply to recruitment and management of spiny lobsters in the Florida Keys

Florida

Field tests of an ecophysiological model of habitat value to predict performance and recruitment of juvenile marine fishes

North Carolina

The horseshoe crab fishery in Delaware Bay, New Jersey: Early life history and recruitment

New Jersey

Hudson River food web dynamics and the recruitment of striped bass

New York

Larval exchange between the MAB and SAB: Transport-mediated recruitment of economically important MAB fish

New York

Molecular genetic analyses of recruitment patterns in the Dungeness Crab,Cancer Magister

California

Patterns of recruitment in Red Sea Urchins: A population genetics approach

California

Physical and biological processes influencing the recruitment of walleye

Michigan

Recruitment in buoyance-driven coastal systems

Delaware

Recruitment dynamics and the effects of environmental variation on early growth and survival of important estuarine fishes

Mississippi/
Alabama

Recruitment failure of yellow perch in Lake Evaluation of the starvation and predation hypothesis

Illinois/Indiana
Michigan

Recruitment decline of yellow perch in Green Bay, Lake Michigan: Evaluation of environmental influences and predation

Wisconsin

Recruitment of juvenile flatfish in relation to substrate, topography and currents

Alaska

Recruitment level in temperate and troopical flatfishes: Is food limiting?

North Carolina

Recruitment mechanisms in yellow perch (Perca flavescens): Interactions among growth, condition and predation

Wisconsin

Recruitment patterns in red sea urchins: A population genetics approach

California

Recruitment and population status of Kemps ridley turtles in nearshore Gulf waters

Texas

Recruitment and predation by bluefish on the continental shelf

New York

Recruitment success of estuarine-dependent marine fishes: Growth and natural mortality of larval and juvenile recruits

Texas

Recruitment variability in black rockfish (Sebastes melanops): Potential effects of adult age on offspring

Oregon

Residence times, movements and growth of white shrimp within tidal marsh

Georgia

The role of water level fluctuations in recruitment of red drum larvae: stable isotopes and tracers

Texas

Simulation of larval transport from the Texas coastal ocean to a bay

Texas

Sources and sinks for the blue crab stock: linkages between transport, dispersal, habitat features and year-class strength

Virginia

Sources and transport mechanisms of white shrimp in southeastern coastal waters

Georgia

Statistical modelling of environmental effects on recruitment in Georges bank haddock

Woods Hole

Testing hydrodynamic predictions of larval recruitment limitation and identification of early juvenile "source" habitats

North Carolina

A time series study to assess relationships between postlarval supply, benthic recruitment, and harvestable stocks in American lobster

Maine/
New Hampshire

An analysis of responses to crises in Pacific salmon fisheries

Oregon

Atlantic fishing communities and Japanese seafood markets: An ethnographic analysis of socio-economic integration

New York

Bioeconomic analysis of the pink shrimp fishery

Oregon

Bioeconomic management model of a metapopulation: The red sea urchin

California

Bioeconomics of commercial-recreational fishery harvest allocations

North Carolina

Biological and economic impacts of a limited entry program in the Texas bay and bait shrimp fishery

Texas

Combinning stated and revealed preference data to estimate the economic value of recreational Salmon fishing

Wisconsin

Demand estimation of finfish species in the mid and Atlantic and Gulf regions for improved policy analysis and design

North Carolina

Developing a bioeconomic model of the Oregon ocean shrimp fishery: An integrated marketing-management approach

Oregon

Economic analysis of factors affecting prices and costs in the sea urchin fishery

California

Economic analysis of vessel buy-back programs

Delaware

An economic history of the New England and Pacific groundfish fisheries

Oregon

Economic impacts of reduced marine resource harvests on coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest and New England

Oregon

Groundfishs crisis in New England fisheries: Family stress, coping and adaptation under changing regulations

Rhode Island

The impacts of the 1995 Florida entanglement ban on commercial fishing families

Florida

Interseasonal comparisons of static and dynamic economic models of recreational salmonid fishing on Lake Michgan

Wisconsin

Longitudinal analysis of emerging fisheries policy

North Carolina

Managing the social health of North Carolina fisheries in a context of conflict

North Carolina

Participation, economic impact, and marketing analysis of Great Lakes fisheries

New York

Patterns of involvement in business and family life among fishing families: Individual, marital,and family well-being

Oregon

Policy considerations for the Atlantic bluefin tuna

Delaware

Resource reliance in a social context: Human capital in fishing communities, businesses, and families

Oregon

Social network analysis of emerging fisheries policy

North Carolina

Socio-economic organization of the California market squid fishery: Assessment for optimal resource management

California

Species selection and economic performance in the New England groundfish fishery

Rhode Island

Strengthening community-of-interest networks to extend education to regional communities

Oregon

Sustaining marine ecosystems: The human dimension

Rhode Island

Adaptive sampling of rockfishes in the Gulf of Alaska

Alaska

Application of artificial neural networks for marine fish stocks

Mississippi/
Alabama

Application of microsatellites to stock identification in Lake Superior lake trout

Wisconsin

Evaluating the accuracy and value of groundfish stock assessments

Oregon

Genetic characterization of walleye stocks based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

Ohio

Genetic structure of fishery-impacted species in the northwest Atlantic

Maine/
New Hampshire

High resolution acoustic and juvenile pollock retrospective data analysis

Washington

High resolution analysis of walleye pollock stock structure using microsatellite DNA markers

Washington

Improving stock assessment of Pacific ocean perch: Evaluation of survey designs and maturity modeling

Alaska

Interdecadal change in California current zooplankton-retrospective analyses by opticalplank ton counter

California

Integration of Technology of effectuate reliable production of estuarine marine fingerlings represented by Red Drum

Louisiana

Modeling the upper ocean production dynamics of plankton and larval pollock in the Bering Sea

California

Molecular genetic analysis of current and historical stock structure of northwest Atlantic haddock

Maine/
New Hampshire

Multispecies modeling of the Georges Banki fish community

Rhode Island

Resolving stock structure and age-specific migrations of Atlantic coast weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) using chemical signatures in otoliths

Virginia

Rule based spatial data analysis for fisheries surveys

Washington

Stock identification and mixed stock analysis of winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus)

New York

The use of molecular techniques to dissect the genetic architecture of pollock populations: Analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear genes by the polymerase chain reaction

California

Assessing the feasibility of winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus) stock enhancement

Maine

Evaluating and improving larval stocking as a method to restore american Shad in Chesapeake Bay

Maryland

Some mechanisms of fisheries enhancement in marine fisheries reserves (MFRS): Interaction between coral reefs and seagrasses

Puerto Rico