Essential Tools in Every Virginian’s Hurricane Preparedness Kit
Two tools, developed at VIMS with funding by Virginia Sea Grant, help protect property and lives during hurricanes.
Coastal Communities, News, Research, Uncategorized
News
Extension, Fisheries & Aquaculture, News, Research, Uncategorized
New Net Could Help Fishermen Reeling Over Sturgeon Listing
Waterman George Trice has been collaborating with scientists for eight years to collect data on Atlantic sturgeon.
Fisheries & Aquaculture, News, Uncategorized
Virginia Sea Grant Director Appointed to National Research Council Committee
This March, Virginia Sea Grant Director Troy Hartley was appointed to a national committee that will evaluate the effectiveness of fisheries management and present findings in a document to Congress.
Fisheries & Aquaculture, Healthy Ecosystems, News, Research, Uncategorized, Virginia Sea Grant Graduate Research Fellowship
Trawling for a Better Way to Assess Fish Health
On a warm morning last August, Ryan Schloesser and his labmate, student Lauren Nys, trawled off Oyster, VA. After a summer filled with collecting fish, they worked with experienced ease, throwing around jokes as smoothly as they tossed their nets behind the boat. What they pull up in their nets should help fisheries managers better predict the size of fish populations.
