Student wins fisheries research award, Boothbay Register reports

Boothbay Register published a news release from the University of Maine Darling Marine Center announcing marine science student Ruleo Camacho received a Young Investigator Award at the Ninth Florida State University Mote Symposium in Sarasota, Florida. The symposium focuses on issues relevant to fisheries, and this year’s topic, Territorial Use Rights for Fishers (TURFs), drew about 100 people from around the world, according to the article. Camacho’s thesis research, “Antigua’s Community Based No-Take Reserves: Developing a Bottom-Up TURF for Coral Reef Ecosystems,” received positive reviews from the symposium’s international organizing committee, the article states.