Limited Access General Category
Sea Scallop Image-Based Research Fleet
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
Short Background on Research Fleet
Need intro about LAGC scallop vessels.
This project is being completed in multiple phases. Phase 1 established the Image-Based Research Fleet for Limited Access General Category vessels. Phase 2, which is currently underway, is expanding the LAGC Research Fleet and incorporating histological….(expand)
Phase 1 Project goals and Results:
The goals for the first phase of this project included:
Develop a fishery-dependent data collection system to contribute data to sea scallop management
Develop an optimal image-based sampling method by collecting individual scallop images aboard commercial fishing vessels
Collect data from Open Area and Northern Gulf of Maine management areas
Analyze and extract biological data from images of individual scallops
Create an annotated image library for future algorithm development
Phase 1 was conducted from DATES. Check out the final report for the results of this project.
Phase 2 project goals:
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Project team:
New England Marine Monitoring
Mark Hager, Chief Executive Officer
Anthony Lucia, Operations Manager
Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation
Becky Smoak - Project Lead
N. David Bethoney
Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance
Melissa Sanderson, Chief Operating Officer
Participant vessels:
F/V Redemption, Cape May, NJ
F/V Motivation, Cape May, NJ
F/V Negotiator, Cape May, NJ
F/V Dauntless, Cape May, NJ
F/V Miss Emma, New Bedford/Provincetown, MA
F/V Kathy Ann, Barnegat Light, NJ
F/V Roen Keil, Provincetown, MA
F/V Tricia Lynn, Harwich/Dennis, MA
F/V Patriarch, Cape May, NJ
