Funding Agency:  NOAA – Saltonstall-Kennedy Program Investigators: James Churchill (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Richard A. Wahle (University of Maine) G. Cowles and Kevin Stokesbury (SMAST, U. Mass Dartmouth) Robert Glenn and Tracy Pugh (Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries, New Bedford, MA) Lobster Management Area-2 (LMA-2), comprised of inshore waters off of Rhode Island and the