Contact:
Dolores Leonard
dolores.leonard@unh.edu
603.862.3685

March 25, 2006

DURHAM, N.H. — New England has long been a region of fishing and farming. Whether our crops are on land or in the sea, the harvest is always the “moment of truth,” the time in which you learn whether your labor has born fruit. For CINEMAR, the Cooperative Institute of New England Mariculture and Fisheries—in which the Yankee knacks for fishing and farming meet—2005 was a true harvest year.

Careful planning, creative science, and hard work on the part of CINEMAR’s Open Ocean Aquaculture Project culminated in two healthy crops of native Gulf of Maine fish: cod and haddock. Our ecosystem-based study of the fishery closure on Jeffreys Ledge is shedding new light on the effectiveness of current management practices. Our winter flounder stock enhancement study is part of a national network of projects developing ways in which people can support the resurgence of native fish in their natural habitats.

You can learn more about our research in 2005 by downloading a pdf of Harvest, the CINEMAR 2005 Annual Report.