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Research at the Beaufort Lab

Fishes

Our primary research areas are:

• Population Dynamics
  • Stock Assessments
• Life History Patterns
• Menhaden Sampling
• Headboat Survey
• Fisheries Biology and Ecology
  • Habitat Restoration Ecology
  • Reef Fish Spawning Aggregations
  • Reef Fish Reproductive Ecology
  • Temperate Hardbottom Community Ecology
  • Invasive Species Impacts
• Southeast Fishery Independent Survey (SEFIS)

Marine Mammals

Our primary research areas are:

• Stock structure
• Ecological studies
• Strandings and fishery interactions

Sea Turtles

Our primary research goals are to:

• Obtain estimates of growth rates, stage durations, and age
• Conduct in-water population studies
• Establish baseline health parameters
• Collect public sightings data
• Mitigate interactions with military activities and fisheries
• Investigate foraging ecology