CapeCod.com reports UMaine scallop research to receive NOAA, NEFMC grant

CapeCod.com reported a University of Maine research survey is among 13 projects to receive funding from the Sea Scallop Research Set-Aside (RSA) Program run by NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC). The program is designed to address research questions that support management of the sea scallop resource, the article states. UMaine will collaborate with the Maine Department of Marine Resources to conduct a dredge survey in select parts of the Gulf of Maine federal waters to provide scallop biomass estimates, according to CapeCod.com.