NH Sea Grant is funding six projects during 2018-2019 in our focus area of Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture:

• Characterizing the genetic stock structure of striped bass to improve marine culture and inform fishery management (David Berlinsky)
• Evaluating growth and sustainable harvesting practices for Jonah crabs in New England waters (Joshua Carloni)
• Reducing risk and enhancing benefits of fish consumption: Understanding species, size and age relationships for mercury, arsenic, selenium and omega-3 fatty acid concentrations in Gulf of Maine fisheries species (Celia Chen)
• Improving the economic sustainability of Northeast aquaculture using a wastes-to-resources approach via integrated farming models (Todd Guerdat)
• DNA Methods to Monitor Invasive Species and Biodiversity in Estuarine Systems (Alison Watts)
• Examining the role of viruses on successful invasion by a hypervirulent pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain and the subsequent impact on native populations. (Cheryl Whistler)