Project: Northeast Consortium: Project Development

Acronym/Short Name:NEC_ProjDev

Project Duration:1999-01 -

Geolocation:Georges Bank, Gulf of Maine

Description

The Northeast Consortium encourages and funds cooperative research and monitoring projects in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank that have effective, equal partnerships among fishermen, scientists, educators, and marine resource managers.

Priority areas for Northeast Consortium funding include selective fishing-gear research and development. The development of selective fishing gears that enhance gear selectivity, target healthy stocks, reduce bycatch and discard, reduce or eliminate technical barriers to trade, minimize harvest losses, and improve fishing practices. Studies of new and developing fishing gears and technologies aimed at reducing environmental impact is funded under Project Development.

Dataset	Latest Version Date	Current State
DOGGRATE: Development of a Spiny Dogfish Excluder in a Raised Footrope Whiting Trawl : dogfish video data from F/V Barbara L. Peters NEC-MP2007-1 in the Gulf of Maine from 2008-2009 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2021-05-18	Final no updates expected
Species counts from control and gear manipulation trials to reduce bycatch of juvenile fish carried out on fishing vessels in the Northeast Consortium (NEC) in the Southwest coastal Maine from 2011-2012 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2012-12-14	Final no updates expected
Trawl metadata: date, time, duration, number of fish in cage, manipulations from F/V Stormy Weather NEC-HH2006-1 in the Gulf of Maine, off New Hampshire coast from 2008-2008 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2011-04-05	Final no updates expected
Numerical abundance, catch-per-unit-effort, percent composition from F/V Stormy Weather NEC-HH2006-1 in the Gulf of Maine off New Hampshire coast from June 2008 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2011-04-04	Final no updates expected
Groundline rope height (m) above seafloor between lobster traps from F/V Time-n-Tide NEC-LL2006-1 in the Gulf of Maine, off Jonesport, Maine from 2007-2007 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2011-01-25	Final no updates expected
Determining the effect of Eastern Maine bottom currents on lobster gear groundlines from F/V Time-n-Tide NEC-LL2006-1 in the Gulf of Maine, off Jonesport, Maine from 2007-2007 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2011-01-20	Final no updates expected
DOGGRATE: Development of a Spiny Dogfish Excluder in a Raised Footrope Whiting Trawl: catch data from F/V Barbara L. Peters NEC-MP2007-1 in the Gulf of Maine from 2008-2009 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2010-10-19	Final no updates expected
Testing of trap styles for capture of sublegal sized lobsters from unknown lobster boat NEC-RB2005-1 in the Southwest Harbor, Mt. Desert Island, Maine from 2006-2007 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-06-29	Final with updates expected
Monkfish tagging methods - cumulative mortality from F/V Miss Fitz NEC-AR2005-1 in the Woods Hole MA (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-06-24	Final no updates expected
Monkfish tagging methods - survival rates from F/V Miss Fitz NEC-AR2005-1 in the Woods Hole MA (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-06-24	Final no updates expected
Spiny dogfish and rare earth metals from F/V Survivor NEC-ST2006-1 in the Gulf of Maine from 2007-2008 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-06-23	Final no updates expected
Testing Raised-Webbing Gillnets to Reduce Bycatch of Cod While Targeting Pollock: catch data from F/V Lady Shannon, F/V Rachel T NEC-SE2005-1 in the Gulf of Maine from 2007-2008 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-04-03	Final no updates expected
Testing Raised-Webbing Gillnets to Reduce Bycatch of Cod While Targeting Pollock: haul data from F/V Lady Shannon, F/V Rachel T NEC-SE2005-1 in the Gulf of Maine from 2007-2008 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-04-03	Final no updates expected
Acoustic Survey Shrimp Survey, Gulf of Maine: time, date, location of ping data from the F/V Tenacious NEC-DS2003-1, 2004 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-02-11	Final no updates expected
Experimental winter flounder trap study, coastal Maine: catch data from F/V Jeanne C. NEC-KP2004-1 in the Gulf of Maine from 2005-2006 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-01-22	Final no updates expected
Experimental winter flounder trap study: trap deployment metadata collected from the F/V Jeanne C. NEC-KP2004-1 from the coastal Maine, 2005-2006 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2009-01-22	Final no updates expected
Comparison of Catch and Bycatch with the Addition of Escape Holes to Otter Trawl Nets in the Northeast Shrimp Fishery from F/V Ocean Reporter NEC-BL2003-2 in the Gulf of Maine from January to March 2005 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2006-07-01	Final no updates expected
Knotless Codend Mesh Selectivity: fish catch data, Gulf of Maine, from F/V Jeanne C. NEC-KP2002-1 from April to July 2003 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2006-06-06	Final no updates expected
Comparison of Catch and Bycatch with Beam and Otter Trawls in Northeast Shrimp Fishery from F/V Ocean Reporter NEC-BL2003-1 in the Gulf of Maine from January to March 2004 (NEC_ProjDev project)	2006-01-01	Final no updates expected

Project Home Page

People

Lead Principal Investigator: Christopher Glass
University of New Hampshire (UNH)

Data Manager: Rachel Feeney
University of New Hampshire (UNH)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Ms Dicky Allison
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)

BCO-DMO Data Manager: Nancy Copley
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI BCO-DMO)

Programs

NorthEast Consortium [NEC]