UMaine Mentioned in AP Report About Groundfish Research

The Associated Press reported the University of Maine is part of a group of scientific and academic institutions called the Northeast Consortium that is leading a research initiative about the groundfish stocks in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. The consortium, which includes UMaine, the University of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was given $800,000 by the federal New England Fishery Management Council for proposals related to the project, according to the report. Officials said they will give priority to proposals that seek to demonstrate ways to grant access to closed areas and increase catch of haddock without impacting cod, yellowtail flounder and windowpane flounder, the article states. Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Portland Press Herald carried the AP report.