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

规划赠款：中大西洋渔业科学中心(MACFIS)1160942罗格斯大学；埃里克·鲍威尔1160938威廉和玛丽海洋科学学院；罗杰·曼中大西洋渔业科学中心(MACFIS)将利用学术和娱乐及商业鱼类和贝类渔业资源，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。罗格斯大学威廉和玛丽海洋科学学院正在合作建立这个拟议的中心，罗格斯大学是牵头机构。这项提议的目标是为一次规划会议寻求资金，以建立一个新的产业/大学合作研究中心(I/UCRC)，题为“大西洋中部渔业科学中心”。拟建中心的重点将是开发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；改进抽样设计、种群动态和渔业绩效的模型；评估种群结构的地理和深度变化以及这些变化与物种的遗传、生理和性别二型性的关系；以及改进捕鱼方法，通过改进渔具，但也通过根据海洋过程修改船队部署来限制丢弃物的减少。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。拟议中心的研究将带来改进的调查抽样方法、改进的种群动态模型、减少废弃物的新方法、种群结构随地理/深度变化的评估、种群动态的生理/遗传起源的确定，以及其他有益的成果，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，从而在优化管理国家渔业资源的同时优化经济效益。

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.