James Sulikowski quoted in New York Times, CBS, ABC on spiny dogfish research

An Associated Press story on the fishing industry controversy over spiny dogfish populations was picked up by the online edition of the New York Times on Oct. 13, 2009.  The story quoted  James Sulikowski,  Ph.D., UNE assistant professor of marine sciences, who has been awarded a $237,000 grant from the NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program to use satellite tags to examine the behavior of spiny dogfish in the Northwest Atlantic. The research will try to determine the habitat, depth and movement patterns of the spiny dogfish to better understand the  inconsistencies in data collected by federal agencies and the commercial fishing industry. Sulikowski, the story notes, "theorizes dogfish don't spend as much time near the ocean bottom as regulators believe, meaning bottom-trawling federal survey boats aren't getting representative samples." The story has also been picked up by several other news venues, including the online editions of CBS News, ABC News, MSNBC.MSN, the Seattle Times, Boston Globe, Forbes.

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