Lynn Waterhouse, a second-year biological oceanography graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has won a prestigious NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant Fellowship in Population Dynamics. The competitive federal program funds Ph.D. students studying the population dynamics of living marine resources and quantitative methods for assessing their status. Waterhouse, who already holds master’s degrees … Continue reading
America imports about 90 percent of the seafood its residents consume annually, and more than half of this fish and shellfish is produced on farms overseas. According to NOAA Fisheries, this translated into Americans spending about $16.6 billion on imported seafood in 2011. “A compelling case can be made for growing more seafood in the United … Continue reading
Bycatch reduction, gear recovery and direct-seafood marketing are among the topics currently addressed through collaborative research with commercial and recreational fishermen. Other projects examine rockfish populations within the Rockfish Conservation Areas; yellowtail movement patterns in Southern California, and spawning populations of night smelt along the North Coast. All of the projects are unique in that … Continue reading
A UC Berkeley research team has built a fleet of floating robots that will be deployed in a freshwater, tidal wetland of the San Francisco Estuary, as part of a new Delta Science Fellowship project. The data collected by the high-tech swarm of smart drifters will help build a picture of how packets of water … Continue reading
SAN DIEGO – An experimental fishing gear configuration is showing promise in protecting endangered sea turtles and other sensitive species. The gear is intended to selectively target swordfish at depth, taking advantage of the top pelagic predator’s differential day and night habitat preferences. If successful, the deep-set longline gear could offer fishers an alternative to … Continue reading
California’s spiny lobster is a delectable, highly mobile crustacean, worth about $13.7-million dockside in 2012, according to fisheries managers. The lobster from the Golden State lacks the crushing, boxing-glove claws that so define the Maine lobster. Our spiny lobster is armored with two long, thick spiny antennae, hence its name. Despite the spiny lobster’s value as a … Continue reading
On behalf of the Delta Science Program, California Sea Grant has awarded 10 Delta Science Fellowships to support research on key topics related to water issues and ecosystem health in the San Francisco Bay-Delta. The fellowship recipients include eight University of California postdoctoral researchers and doctoral graduate students, and two postdoctoral researchers with the California … Continue reading
