Everett Rzeszowski

Everett Rzeszowski

Graduate Assistant

Upcoming Commercial Trapping Survey

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This past fall I spent 6 weeks on Monhegan Island (Oct. 8- Nov. 21) performing a commercial trapping survey with the help of local lobstermen to assess both population dynamics and catch metrics in the local fishery. In the survey 72 lobster traps were fished between two sites, Test and Control, for 36 traps/ site.

The fall survey was the first iteration of a Before-After Control-Impact (BACI) study to investigate whether or not the installation and operation of the western hemisphere’s first commercial scale floating wind turbine will create a measurable impact on the local lobster fishery. Future blog posts will delve further into the approach behind the survey itself.

This spring I’ll be returning to Monhegan Island from April 18- May 20/ 27 for the second iteration (first spring season) of the survey.

Updates to come as the survey gets underway.

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Tomorrow I’ll be presenting the preliminary results from the basline commercial trapping survey at the American Fisheries Society annual meeting in Spokane, WA! It was a big push to get the data analysis to a point that it was presentation ready and then to actually create a presentation. The pre-recorded version of the presentation can be viewed here. The session is on Offshore wind and fishery interactions and I’m excited to see what sorts of thoughts people are having on the west coast about devveloping offshore wind energy and whether they are finding that lessons learned from east coast fixed-bottom wnd infrastructure ecological monitoring, siting and leasing problems is applicable to the floating-wind future they expect.