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

规划补助金：中大西洋渔业科学中心（MaCFiS）1160942罗格斯大学;威廉和玛丽海洋科学研究所学院;中大西洋渔业科学中心（Mid-Atlantic Center for Fisheries Science，MaCFiS）将利用学术和娱乐和商业鳍鱼和贝类渔业资源，以解决紧迫的科学问题，限制这些渔业的成功管理，在激烈的时期，气候变化罗格斯大学威廉学院和玛丽海洋科学研究所正在合作建立拟议的中心，罗格斯大学作为牵头机构。该提案的目的是为一个计划会议寻求资金，以建立一个新的工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC），名为“中大西洋渔业科学中心”。“拟议中的中心的重点将是发展关于鱼类种群的基本生物数据，包括繁殖力、年龄结构和死亡原因;改进抽样设计、种群动态和渔业绩效的模型;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、生理和两性异形的关系;改进捕捞方法，通过渔具创新限制丢弃物的减少，并根据海洋学进程调整船队部署。这些学科涵盖了海洋生物学和海洋学的大部分领域。拟议中的中心将对商业和休闲渔业产生重大影响。拟议中心的研究将改进调查抽样方法，改进种群动态模型，减少丢弃的新方法，评估种群结构中地理/深度依赖性变化，确定种群动态的生理/遗传起源，以及其他有价值的成果，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，从而在最大限度地节约国家鱼类资源的同时，实现经济效益的最大化。

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.