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8:30-8:50
Registration and Coffee
8:50-9:00 Opening
Comments. Grace Klein-MacPhee
9:00-9:20 Population
size estimates of extirpated Atlantic salmon runs in selected streams in
Connecticut. Stephen Gephard and Timothy Wildman, Connecticut Department of
Environmental Protection, Inland Fisheries Division, Old Lyme CT
9:20-9:40 A survey of
anadromous fish passage in coastal Massachusetts. Michael P. Armstrong1,
Phillips D. Brady2, and
Kenneth E. Reback2,
1Massachusetts Division of
Marine Fisheries, Annisquam River Marine Fisheries Station, Gloucester MA,
2Massachusetts Division of
Marine Fisheries, South Shore Field Lab, Pocasset MA
9:40-10:00
Assessment of alewife and blueback herring populations in
Connecticut coastal streams and Connecticut River tributaries.*
Justin Davis1, Eric Schultz2,
and Robert Neumann3,
1 Department of Natural
Resources Management and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs CT,
2 Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT,
3 Fisheries and Illinois
Aquaculture Center Southern Illinois University, Carbondale IL
10:00-10:20 The
development of a predictive tool using largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides)
scales to estimate mercury (Hg) concentrations and stable-nitrogen(15N/14N)
isotope ratios in fish muscle tissue. Steve A. Ryba and James L. Lake,
Atlantic Ecology Division, US Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett RI
10:20-10:40
Break
10:40-11:00
Examination of sea scallop-sea star
predator-prey interactions on Georges Bank.* Michael Marino1,
Kevin D.E. Stokesbury1, and
Francis Juanes2,
1The University of
Massachusetts Graduate School of Marine Sciences and Technology, New Bedford MA,
2Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts -
Amherst
11:00-11:20
Examination of the stock recruitment relationship of the sea scallop,
Placopecten magelanicus.* Jake Nogueira and Kevin D. E. Stokesbury,
UMASS Graduate School for Marine Science and Technology, New Bedford MA
11:20-11:40
Optimization of harvest strategies for Georges Bank
scallop.* Tu Truong1,
Kevin D.E. Stokesbury1,
Farhad Azadivar2 and Brian
J. Rothschild1, 1 School for
Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2 College
of Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
11:40-12:00
Optimizing biological yield from western Georges Bank
mixed species bottom trawl fishery.* David Chosid, and Joseph
DeAlteris, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-1:30 An update
from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Vince O’Shea,
Executive Director of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission,
Washington, DC
1:30-1:50 Prey
consumption by striped bass (Morone saxatilis) in coastal waters of
Massachusetts. Gary A. Nelson, B. C. Chase, and J. Stockwell.
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, Annisquam River Marine Fisheries
Station, 30 Emerson Avenue, Gloucester MA
1:50-2:10
Predator cohabitation ellicits a stress response in
juvenile winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus).*
Jason P. Breves and Jennifer L. Specker, Graduate School of Oceanography,
University of Rhode Island, Narragansett RI
2:10-2:30 Lernaeid
copepod infestion in Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus. Kevin
R. Uhlinger and Roxanna Smolowitz, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole MA
2:30-2:50
Perception of the molting hormone 20-Hydroxyecdysone by
Homarus americanus: localization of steroid receptors and effect on
behavior.* Debra L. Coglianese1,
Doranne Borsay Horowitz2,
and Gabrielle Kass-Simon1 ,
1 Department of Biological
Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston RI
2Atlantic Ecology Division,
US Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett RI
2:50-3:10
Genetic diversity of alewife populations in Southern New
England.* Sunita Vangala, Elisa Ferreira, Jill Rulfs, Jeffrey
Tyler. Biology/Biotechnology Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Worcester MA
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