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Study 1 Summary of Baited Underwater Video Study #1  Haddock traps & nets #6
Study 2 Summary of Codfish Grate Study

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studies # 7
Study 3 Development of Video Techniques for By-Catch Reduction Studies # 3 Low impact Bycatch Reducing Danish Shrimp Beam Trawl

i studies #8

now with plans
Study 4 Lobster Bait Comparison #4 Study 9 Develop Escape Tube for By-Catch Study # 9
Study 5 Cod Trap # 5 # 10 Searching for underwater

Up-dated Dec. 20, 2007

Captain Bill Lee

Captain Bill Lee is Coast Guard licensed and has been a commercial fisherman out of Rockport, MA since 1974. He designed and built his fishing vessel, Ocean Reporter, as well as a complete underwater video system. Captain Lee has been involved in fisheries research since 1986. Some of his recent projects include a Fish Grate Study and a Baited Underwater Video study, both for the Northeast Consortium. He has produced and sold over 1,000 underwater videos, the most recent are Trawls, Nets & Doors and Scallop Dredges. Currently he is working on Fish & Lobster Behavior In the Gulf of Maine.

Dr. Allan Michael

Formerly Resident Ecologist at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and with previous academic appointments at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Michael now owns a small consulting business in Gloucester. He has been involved in the design, execution and analysis of some very large monitoring programs such as the New York Bight MESA project, Georges Bank Monitoring Program and the Puget Sound Monitoring Program. Currently involved in an NMFS study to determine the effects of trawl gear on the sea floor in Cape Cod Bay and a Northeast Consortium project developing a net to catch flounder without catching cod.

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