Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Mid-Atlantic Center for Fisheries Science (MaCFiS)

规划资助：中大西洋渔业科学中心（MaCFiS） 1160942罗格斯大学；William and Mary College海洋科学研究所；中大西洋渔业科学中心（MaCFiS）将利用学术、娱乐和商业鱼类和贝类渔业资源来解决在剧烈气候变化期间限制这些渔业成功管理的紧迫科学问题。罗格斯大学（Rutgers University）和威廉玛丽海洋科学学院（College of William and Mary Marine Science）正在合作建立拟议中的中心，罗格斯大学（Rutgers University）是牵头机构。本提案的目标是为建立一个名为“中大西洋渔业科学中心”的新工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）的规划会议寻求资金。拟议中心的重点将是编制关于鱼类种群的基本生物学数据，包括繁殖力、年龄结构和死亡来源；改进的抽样设计、种群动态和渔业绩效模型；评价种群结构的地理和深度变化，以及这些变化与物种的遗传、生理和两性二态性的关系；改进捕鱼方法，通过创新渔具，并根据海洋学进程修改船队部署，限制减少弃置物。这些学科涵盖了海洋生物学和海洋学的许多领域。拟议中的中心将对商业和休闲渔业产生重大影响。拟议中心的研究将导致改进调查抽样方法、改进种群动态模型、减少弃置物的新方法、评价种群结构的地理/深度依赖性变化、确定种群动态的生理/遗传起源和其他有价值的成果，所有这些都旨在实现可持续鱼类种群和可持续渔业的双重目标。从而在优化经济效益的同时，优化管理国家的鱼类资源。

Planning Grant: Mid-Atlantic Center for Fisheries Science (MaCFiS) 1160942 Rutgers University; Eric Powell 1160938 College of William and Mary Institute of Marine Science; Roger Mann The Mid-Atlantic Center for Fisheries Science (MaCFiS) will utilize academic and recreational and commercial finfish and shellfish fisheries resources to address urgent scientific problems limiting successful management of these fisheries during the period of intense climate change. Rutgers University the College of William and Mary Institute of Marine Science are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with Rutgers University as the lead institution. The goal of this proposal is to seek funding for a planning meeting to establish a new Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) entitled "Mid-Atlantic Center for Fisheries Science." The focus of the proposed center will be to develop essential biological data on fish stocks, including fecundity, age structure, and sources of mortality; improved models of sampling design, population dynamics, and fishery performance; evaluation of geographic and depth variations in stock structure and how these relate to the genetics, physiology and sexual dimorphism of species; and improved approaches to fishing to limit discard reduction through gear innovation, but also through modifications in fleet deployment consistent with oceanographic processes. These subjects encompass much of the fields of marine biology and oceanography. The proposed center would have significant impact on both the commercial and recreational fishing industries. The research at the proposed center will result in improved survey sampling methods, improved population dynamics models, new approaches to discard reduction, evaluation of geographic/depth-dependent variations in stock structure, identification of physiological/genetic origins of stock dynamics, and other meritorious outcomes, all aimed at the dual goals of sustainable fish stocks and sustainable fishing industries, thus simultaneously optimizing economic benefit while optimally husbanding the nation's fish resources.