Projects
under this program provide economic, sociological, public policy,
and other information needed by Federal and State natural resource
administrators for conserving and managing fishery resources
and protected species and their environment in Federal, state,
and U.S. territorial waters.
In
the Southeast, this program has funded life history research
on red drum in South Carolina and shark research in the Gulf
of Mexico and along the coast of the southeastern U.S. The shark
investigations, conducted by the Center for Shark Research, have
centered around shark nurseries in U.S. and Mexican waters and
tracking the movements of sharks. Unallied Management Projects
have also funded studies to more accurately determine fishing
effort in the shrimp trawling industry and to better determine
the parameter in red snapper stock assessment. Information gained
by the above projects is vital to our ability to properly manage
these fishery resources.
