Northeast Fisheries Science Center Reference Document 01-17
Collected
Abstracts of
the Seventh
NEFSC Science Symposium, December 11-13,
2001, Water's Edge Resort, Westbrook, Connecticut
by Renee Mercaldo-Allen, Joseph Choromanski, Mark S. Dixon,
James B. Hughes, Douglas R. Lanyon, Catharine A. Kuropat,
Christopher Martin, and John J. Ziskowski, compilers
National Marine Fisheries Serv., 212 Rogers Ave., Milford, CT 06460-6490
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publication date December 2001;
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Citation: Mercaldo-Allen, R.; Choromanski, J.; Dixon, M.S.; Hughes, J.B.; Lanyon, D.R.; Kuropat, C.A.; Martin, C.;
Ziskowski, J.J., compilers. 2001. Collected abstracts of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s Seventh Science
Symposium, Westbrook, Connecticut, December 11-13, 2001. Northeast Fish. Sci. Cent. Ref. Doc. 01-17; 60 p.
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AGENDA
Tuesday
December 11, 2001
7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration,
Coffee, Muffins, Danish
8:30-9:00 a.m. Opening
Remarks
Renee Mercaldo-Allen,
NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Michael Sissenwine, NEFSC Science and Research Director
Douglas R. Lanyon, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Session
I: Crustaceans
Ambrose
Jearld, Jr., Session Chair
Chief, Research Planning and Coordination Staff
9:00 a.m. Shell disease
prevalence and severity in offshore American lobster populations
Diane Kapareiko, Richard
A. Robohm, John J. Ziskowski, George R. Sennefelder, and Anthony
Calabrese, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
9:20 a.m. Reassessing
biodiversity estimates for decapod crustaceans off the eastern
United States: the importance of new species discoveries, improved
taxonomy, and new phylogenetic hypotheses
Martha S. Nizinski, NEFSC/National
Systematics Laboratory
9:40 a.m. Environmental
monitoring on lobster traps
James Manning, NEFSC/Woods
Hole Laboratory
10:00 a.m. Attack and
avoidance behavior between large and small blue crabs, Callinectes
sapidus, in the laboratory
Linda L. Stehlik and
Carol J. Meise, NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
10:20-10:40 a.m. BREAK
Session
II: Environmental Studies
Thomas
T. Noji, Session Chair
Chief, Ecosystems Processes Division
10:40 a.m. Polychlorinated
biphenyl fingerprints in young-of-the-year bluefish
Ashok D. Deshpande, NEFSC/James
J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
11:00 a.m. Patterns
in biochemical condition of some young-of-the-year demersal fishes:
the price of seasonal migration
Vincent G. Guida, NEFSC/James
J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
11:20 a.m. Benthic invertebrate
assemblages at Spartina alterniflora marshes reestablished
after an oil spill in the Arthur Kill (NY/NJ)
Joseph J. Vitaliano,
Robert N. Reid, and David B. Packer, NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine
Sciences Laboratory
11:40 a.m. Habitat and
species associations of fish, megafauna, and benthic infauna in
the New York Bight Apex
Sukwoo Chang, Joseph
J. Vitaliano, and Frank W. Steimle, NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine
Sciences Laboratory
12:00 noon The role
of local wintertime atmosphere heat flux in determining springtime
temperature variability in the northern Mid-Atlantic Bight during
1965-1973
Maureen H. Taylor and
David G. Mountain, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
12:20-1:30 p.m. LUNCH
Session
III: Protected Species
Wendy
L. Gabriel, Session Chair
Chief, Fisheries and Ecosystems Monitoring and
Analysis Division
1:30 p.m. The Right
Whale Sighting Advisory System: locating right whales, advising
mariners, and battling nausea
Kelly Houle, NMFS/NERO
1:50 p.m. The Right
Whale Sighting Advisory System: who knows a right whale from a
left whale anyway?
Patricia A. McGinn, NMFS/NERO
2:10 p.m. Northeast
Fisheries Science Center aeriel surveys for right whale (Eubalaena
glacialis) 1998-2001
Timothy V.N. Cole, Frederick
W. Wenzel, and Amy E. Renner, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
2:30 p.m. A review of
current NMFS scientific management efforts to recover the North
Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
Richard L. Merrick, NEFSC/Woods
Hole Laboratory
2:50 p.m. An overview
of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center Sea Turtle Program
Cheryl E. Ryder, NEFSC/Woods
Hole Laboratory
3:10-3:30 p.m. BREAK
Session
IV: Results of the Town Meetings
Presentation
John
Boreman, Session Chair
Deputy Center Director
3:30-5:00 p.m. Presentation/Discussion
5:30 p.m. DINNER
Wednesday December 12, 2001
7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration,
Coffee, Muffins, Danish
Session
V: Aquaculture
Anthony
Calabrese, Session Chair
Chief, Aquaculture and Enhancement Division
8:30-9:00 a.m.
Introduction
Mark S. Dixon, NEFSC/Milford
Laboratory
Shellfish Aquaculture:
Good for the economy, good for the environment, good for you!
Sandra Shumway, UConn
Department of Marine Sciences
9:00 a.m. Stock enhancement:
moving from wishful thinking toward sound ecology
Ronald Goldberg, Jose
J. Pereira, and Paul Clark, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
9:20 a.m. Bay scallop
spawning and rearing methods
David J. Veilleux, NEFSC/Milford
Laboratory
9:40 a.m. An experimental
system for evaluating shellfish recirculating nursery systems
James C. Widman, Jr.,
NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
10:00-10:20 a.m. BREAK
10:20 a.m. Rotifer production
on microalgal diets: a quantitative approach to developing a feeding
strategy
Mark S. Dixon, Gary H.
Wikfors, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Bethann Balazsi, Southampton College
10:40 a.m. Microalgal
production to further science and aquaculture
Barry C. Smith and Gary
H. Wikfors, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
11:00 a.m. An overview
of the NOAA diving program
Barry C. Smith, NEFSC/Milford
Laboratory
Session
VI: Senior Manager Presentations
Dr.
John Boreman, Session Chair
Deputy Center Director
11:20 a.m. Expanding
opportunities
Ambrose Jearld, Jr.,
Chief, Research Planning and Coordination
11:35 a.m. Habitat characterization
and resource management
Thomas T. Noji, Chief,
Ecosystems Processes Division
11:50 a.m. Census of
marine life
Michael Vecchione, Director,
National Systematics Laboratory
12:05-1:30 p.m. LUNCH
Session
VII: Flounder Biology and Ecology
Mary
Fabrizio, Session Chair
Chief, Behavioral Ecology Branch
1:30 p.m. Settlement
dynamics and the distribution of early juvenile winter flounder
in a Northwest Atlantic estuarine nursery
John P. Manderson, Jeffrey
P. Pessutti, Carol J. Meise, Donna L. Johnson, and Patricia A.
Shaheen
NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
1:50 p.m. Winter flounder
avoidance of sediment biogeochemicals
Andrew F.J. Draxler,
NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
Jessica A. Siclare, Saint Joseph’s University
2:10 p.m. Growth rates
of juvenile winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus,
as determined from otoliths, under varying environmental conditions
Carol J. Meise, Donna
L. Johnson, Linda L. Stehlik, John P. Manderson, and Patricia A.
Shaheen
NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
2:30 p.m. Size related
shifts in habitat associations of young-of-the-year winter flounder
(Pseudopleuronectes americanus): field observations and
laboratory experiments
Beth A. Phelan, John
P. Manderson, NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
Allan W. Stoner, NMFS/Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Allen J. Bejda, NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory/retired
2:50 p.m. Ecological
biogeography and species diversity of the flatfishes (Order Pleuronectiformes)
Thomas A. Munroe, NEFSC/National
Systematics Laboratory
3:10-3:30 p.m. BREAK
Session
VIII
POSTERS
3:30-5:00
p.m.
Multi-decadal temperature
records from New England's coastal waters
Cristina Bascuñán,
James Manning, Maureen H. Taylor, and David G. Mountain, NEFSC/Woods
Hole Laboratory
Shell size and color
of bay scallops from genetic lines as factors in prey preference
by crabs
Joseph Choromanski, Sheila
Stiles, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Jessica Vinokur, Vassar College
A clear case of overfishing
in Room 25
Gary H. Wikfors and Mark
S. Dixon, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Waquoit Bay Watershed
Ecological Risk Assessment Project: using science to support management
David D. Dow, NEFSC/Woods
Hole Laboratory
Salpidae and Thaliacea
on the Northeast Continental Shelf
Michael D. Ford, NESDIS/NODC
Sharon A. McLean, Jerome Prezioso, NEFSC/Narragansett Laboratory
Variability in capture
of egg and larval fish species between two pelagic samplers: bongo
vs MOCNESS
Donna L. Johnson, NEFSC/James
J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
Distribution and variability
of zooplankton biomass of the U.S. Northeast Shelf Ecosystem
Joseph Kane, NEFSC/Narragansett
Laboratory
RNA concentration as
an indicator of growth in young-of-the-year winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes
americanus) and tautog (Tautoga onitis)
Catherine Kuropat, Renee
Mercaldo-Allen, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Elaine Caldarone, NEFSC/Narragansett Laboratory
Ronald Goldberg, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Beth Phelan, NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
Frederick Thurberg, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Critical Sightings Program
placard
Amy E. Renner, Timothy
V.N. Cole, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
Blair Mase, NMFS/SEFSC
Dana L. Hartley, Pat Gerrior, NERO/Woods Hole Laboratory
Applications of age
and measurement data for Atlantic salmon scales using image analysis
Erin Livensparger and
Ruth E. Haas-Castro, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
Sirolpidium zoophthorum,
new evidence of its effects on larval bay scallops
Christopher Martin, NEFSC/Milford
Laboratory
Restoration and assessment
of urban salt marsh habitat damaged by a severe oil spill
David B. Packer, Joseph
Vitaliano, NEFSC/James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
Carl Alderson, NYC Parks and Recreation/Salt Marsh Restoration Team
Seasonal abundance of Temora
longicornis on the Northeast Continental Shelf of the United
States based on 24 years of ecosystems monitoring data
Jerome Prezioso and Joseph
Kane, NEFSC/Narragansett Laboratory
NOAA CoastWatch remote
sensing applications for the NMFS Northeast Region
Grayson Wood, NEFSC/Narragansett
Laboratory
Axial skeletal deformities
in winter flounder from Boston Harbor and Georges Bank
John Ziskowski, NEFSC/Milford
Laboratory
Holly Hansen, Secaucus, NJ
Jose Pereira, NEFSC/Milford Laboratory
Marianne Farrington, New England Aquarium
Jay Burnett, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
5:30 p.m. DINNER
Thursday
December 13, 2001
7:30-8:30 a.m. Registration,
Coffee, Muffins, Danish
Fredric
M. Serchuk, Session Chair
Chief, Resource Evaluation and Assessment Division
8:30 a.m. Infectious
salmon anemia in Maine-cultured Atlantic salmon
Sharon A. MacLean, NEFSC/Narragansett
Laboratory
8:50 a.m. Smolt production
dynamics in endangered Atlantic salmon populations
John F. Kocik, NEFSC/Orono
Field Station
Timothy F. Sheehan, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
Kenneth F. Beland, Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission
Jennifer FitzGerald, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
9:10
a.m. Characterizing rearing history of Pleasant River smolts using
scale image analysis
Ruth E. Haas-Castro,
John F. Kocik, and Christopher M. Legault, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
9:30 a.m. Stock-specific
measures of marine growth for three remnant populations of Atlantic
salmon, Salmo salar, from eastern Maine
Timothy F. Sheehan, NEFSC/Woods
Hole Laboratory
John F. Kocik, NEFSC/Orono Field Station
Ernest Atkinson, Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission
9:50 a.m. Origin and
distribution of Atlantic salmon post-smolts in Penobscot Bay, ME
Craig A. Tinus and Russell
W. Brown, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
10:10-10:30 a.m. BREAK
Michael
Vecchione, Session Chair
Director, National Systematics Laboratory
10:30
a.m. Use of a large-mesh panel to reduce the flatfish bycatch in
the small-mesh bottom trawls used in the New England silver hake
fishery
Henry O. Milliken, III,
NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
10:50
a.m. An efficiency comparison of a standard 8-ft NEFSC sea scallop
dredge and one rigged with rock-excluding chains
Victor A. Nordahl, Jr.,
NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
11:10 a.m. Fisheries
acoustics at the NEFSC
Peter Chase, William
L. Michaels, J. Michael Jech, William J. Overholtz, Wendy L. Gabriel,
and Elizabeth Pratt, NEFSC/Woods Hole Laboratory
11:30
a.m. Introducing the Fisheries Scientific Computer System (FSCS)
Nancy McHugh, NEFSC/Woods
Hole Laboratory
David Benigni, Thomas N. Stepka, and Dennis P. Shields, NOAA/Office of Marine
and Aviation Operations
11:50
a.m. Results for recent NIST intercomparison exercises from the
Organic Group of the J. J. Howard Marine Science Laboratory
Bruce Dockum, NEFSC/James
J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory
12:10 p.m. Remote sensing
and GIS applications for protected species
Chris Orphanides and
Grayson Wood, NEFSC/Narragansett Laboratory
12:30 p.m. Closing Remarks
12:45 p.m. LUNCH
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NEFSC Science Symposium Steering Committee/Milford Laboratory
Joseph
Choromanski
Mark S. Dixon
James B. Hughes
Douglas R. Lanyon
Catherine A. Kuropat
Christopher Martin
Renee Mercaldo-Allen
John J. Ziskowski
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