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US Caribbean Commercial Data Improvement Project
Client: NMFS, Southeast Fisheries Science Center MRAG has been contracted by the NMFS, Southeast Fisheries Science Center to perform the following tasks: Assemble and summarize materials describing existing fisheries and development of, current management, current data collection systems and deficiencies and preferred stock assessment methods. Detail as necessary by territory (US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico) [...]
Setting Annual Catch Limits for US Fisheries
Client: Lenfest Ocean Program In the summer of 2007, MRAG Americas coordinated working groups aimed at identifying best practices in fisheries management, developing a standardized process for setting annual catch limits (ACLs) that can apply to all US federally managed fisheries as mandated by the Magnuson-Stevens Reauthorization Act. The Expert Working Group developed a straightforward [...]
Northeast At-Sea Monitor Positions
MRAG is hiring multiple At-Sea Monitors to collect data onboard domestic fishing vessels the Northeast fisheries from New York to Maine. At-sea monitors collect scientific, management, compliance, and other data at sea through observations of fishing operations, interviews of vessel captains and crew, photographing catch, and measurements of selected portions of the catch and fishing [...]
Ipswich Shellfish Group
(Ipswich Shellfish Company, Maine Shellfish Company, Connecticut Shellfish Company, United Shellfish Company, Lowcountry Shellfish Company) 8 Hayward Street Ipswich, MA 01938 CoC# MRAG-C-0018 Contact: Bob Butcher Ph: 978-356-4371 Fax: 978-356-6828 [bob@ipswichshellfish.com] ipswichshellfish.com
Northeast Groundfish Sector Monitoring
Fisheries management in New England has failed to successfully rebuild depleted populations and end overfishing for many fishery stocks; as a result the amended Fishery Management Plan (Amendment 16) mandates the development of Sectors to manage the quotas assigned to the individual vessels. This Sector Management Plan will be adopted by the Northeast Multispecies fishery [...]
Alaska Marine Mammal Program
MRAG began working with the Alaska Marine Mammal Observer Program in 2004. The National Marine Fisheries Services’ Protected Resources Division contracted MRAG to design and implement a program to monitor marine mammal interactions with the salmon set gillnet fisheries around Kodiak Island. The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) mandates NMFS to measure the impact commercial [...]
NMFS Alaska Groundfish Fishery
As the American harvest of groundfish resources replaced the foreign and joint-venture fisheries, domestic observer programs were implemented to provide biological data in place of the former database provided by the Foreign Fisheries Observer Program. Currently all vessels over 60 feet require observer some level of coverage, this falls into two categories; vessels under 125 [...]
Our Team
Andrew A. Rosenberg, Ph.D., President Robert J. Trumble, Ph.D., Vice President Marc Mangel, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Advisor Robert Wakeford, Ph.D, Technical Director Erika A. Zollett, Ph.D., Senior Marine Scientist Jennie M. Harrington, M.S., Fishery Biologist Jill H. Swasey, M.S., Marine Scientist Mónica Valle Esquivel, Ph.D. Bryan Belay, Observer Operations Manager Mary Gerken, Office Assistant Andrew [...]
Clients & Partners
MRAG Americas clients and partners have included a broad range of government agencies in the US and around the world, non-governmental organizations and a range of private sector companies. Clients Governmental and International Organizations Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fishery Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office, NOAA Fisheries Atlantic States Marine Fisheries [...]
The Certification Process
Fisheries Certifications Fishery certifications are undertaken by an independent certifying company (MRAG Americas, Inc.) at the request of a Client. The certification process involves several steps to assess compliance with the MSC’s Principles and Criteria for Sustainable Fishing. The assessment process consists of a preliminary desk study (the Pre-Assessment) to review all existing data on [...]
