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2013 DMF Annual Report Department of Fish and Game Massachusetts Marine Fisheries 2013 Annual Report Department of Fish and Game Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries 2013 Annual Report Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Richard K. Sullivan, Jr. Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Mary B. Griffin Division of Marine Fisheries Director Paul J. Diodati Daniel J. McKiernan Deputy Director David Pierce Deputy Director Kevin Creighton Chief Financial Officer www.mass.gov/marinefisheries January 1 - December 31, 2013 Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries 2013 Annual Report 1 Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 Frequently Used Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................................ 5 FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AND POLICY SECTION ................................................................................................ 6 Policy and Fisheries Management Program ..................................................................................................... 6 Personnel .....................................................................................................................................................6 Overview .....................................................................................................................................................6 State Fisheries Management.......................................................................................................................7 Interstate and Federal Fisheries Management ........................................................................................ 15 Conservation Engineering Project ............................................................................................................ 20 Other Activities ......................................................................................................................................... 23 Management Information Systems and Fisheries Statistics Program ............................................................ 24 Personnel .................................................................................................................................................. 24 Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 24 Management Information Systems Project ............................................................................................. 24 Fisheries Statistics Project ........................................................................................................................ 25 SHELLFISH AND HABITAT SECTION .................................................................................................................... 33 Shellfish Sanitation and Management Program ............................................................................................. 33 Personnel .................................................................................................................................................. 33 Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 34 Sanitation – Public Health Protection Project .......................................................................................... 34 Shellfisheries Management Project ......................................................................................................... 42 Technical Assistance Project .................................................................................................................... 48 Environmental Protection Project ............................................................................................................ 49 Aquaculture Permitting and Technical Assistance Project....................................................................... 50 Other Activities ......................................................................................................................................... 54 Habitat Program ............................................................................................................................................. 56 Personnel .................................................................................................................................................. 56 Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 56 Technical Review Project.......................................................................................................................... 57 Fisheries Habitat Research Project........................................................................................................... 59 Climate Change Project ............................................................................................................................ 62 Other Activities ......................................................................................................................................... 63 FISHERIES BIOLOGY SECTION ............................................................................................................................. 64 Fish Biology Program ...................................................................................................................................... 64 Personnel .................................................................................................................................................. 64 Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 64 Age and Growth Project ........................................................................................................................... 64 Fisheries Dependent Sampling Project .................................................................................................... 66 Special Fisheries Research Projects .......................................................................................................... 70 Striped Bass Research Project .................................................................................................................. 71 Other Activities ......................................................................................................................................... 74 Assessment and Survey Program ................................................................................................................... 75 Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries 2013 Annual Report 2 Personnel .................................................................................................................................................. 75 Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 75 Resource Assessment Project .................................................................................................................. 76 Invertebrate Fisheries Project .................................................................................................................. 78 Protected Species Project ........................................................................................................................ 84 Scientific Diving Project ............................................................................................................................ 87 Other Activities ......................................................................................................................................... 87 Recreational and Diadromous Fisheries Program .......................................................................................... 89 Personnel .................................................................................................................................................. 89 Overview .................................................................................................................................................. 89 Recreational Fisheries Project .................................................................................................................. 90 Large Pelagics Research Project ............................................................................................................... 94 Diadromous Fisheries Project .................................................................................................................. 98 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................ 109 Personnel ................................................................................................................................................ 109 Overview ................................................................................................................................................ 109 Budget ...................................................................................................................................................
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