MADMF GOM Winter Flounder Studies

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Objectives:
  1. Determine time and location of spawning
  2. Document site fidelity, immigration, and emigration in an urban estuary
  3. Document costal movements of winter flounder after leaving the estuary
Management Benefits:
  1. Update TOY restrictions used to manage winter flounder in the Boston Harbor and MA Bay estuaries
  2. Add to body of knowledge of GOM winter flounder
Principal Investigator:  William Hoffman (Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries)
Email: bill.hoffman@mass.gov
    Point of Contact:  William Hoffman
    Email: bill.hoffman@mass.gov
      Collaborators:
      1. Dr. Adrian Jordaan and Katrina Zarrella-Smith (Umass-Amherst)
      Participating Organizations:
      1. Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
      2. University of Massachusetts - Amherst