Marine Fisheries
Date:	Monday, April 26, 2010
Room:	Grand Salon B
Moderator:	Mike Armstrong

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Centers Cooperative Research Program
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm	Learn About the Northeast Fisheries Observer Program and A.I.S., Inc. and What it Takes to be a Marine Fisheries Observer
2:45 pm – 3:20 pm	Break
3:20 pm – 5:00 pm	Restoration of Natural Resources in the New Bedford Harbor Environment

Room:	Grand Salon C
Moderator:	Mike Armstrong

1:00 pm - 2:45 pm	Community-Based Fisheries Management in New England
2:45 pm – 3:20 pm	Break
3:20 pm – 5:00 pm	Workshop on the Status of River Herring in a Watershed Context

Room:	Lexington
Moderator:	Mike Armstrong

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Implementation of Northeast marine angler licensing and registry programs Paul Perra

Marine Fisheries
Date:	Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Room:	Lexington
Moderator:	Mike Armstrong

8:00 am - 8:05 am	Session Introduction
8:05 am - 8:25 am	Seasonal and spatial patterns of North Atlantic right whale upcalling behavior in the northwest Atlantic: implications for management and conservation
8:25 am - 8:45 am	The Northeast Regional Cod Tagging Program: how collaborative research can contribute to fisheries assessment and management
8:45 am - 9:05 am	Dispersal of an Atlantic cod spawning aggregation as a result of a fishery opening
9:05 am - 9:25 am	Modern and Neolithic Baltic Sea cod otolith chemistry: potential to track juvenile habitat use and other life history parameters
9:25 am - 10:00 am	Spatial variations in otolith microchemistry for Tautoga onitis in the Northeast US
10:00 am - 10:20 am	Break
10:20 am – 10:40 am	A Local Non-Profit Effort to Restore Oysters to an Eco-System after an Absence of Over a Century
10:40 am – 11:00 am	NEPA: National Environmental Policy Act. Preparing an effective environmental assessment required with federal funding (or why you may have to suck it up and do this in order to do your exciting project)
11:00 am – 11:20 am	Reducing bycatch through conservation engineering: Recent development in Gulf of Maine shrimp fishery to reduce finfish bycatch and small shrimps
11:20 am – 11:40 am	Seasonal variation in smooth dogfish Mustelus canis, catch and diet from a longline survey in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
11:40 am – 12:00 pm	A look ahead at catch shares and the future of New England groundfish management: Will ITQs follow sectors?
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Lunch

Marine Fisheries
Date:	Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Room:	Lexington
Moderator:	Mike Armstrong

1:00 pm – 1:05 pm	Session Introduction
1:05 pm - 1:25 pm	Examining settlement dynamics of postlarval American lobster, Homarus americanus, in Southern New England/LMA 2
1:25 pm - 1:45 pm	Could a contraction in lobster (Homarus americanus) habitat be further exacerbating poor stock conditions in the Buzzards Bay area fishery?
1:45 pm - 2:05 pm	Egg-bearing lobster movements in coastal New Hampshire waters with implications for egg development and larval hatch
2:05 pm – 2:25 pm	Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: Are current reproduction and migration paradigms correct?
2:25 pm - 3:00 pm	Bottoms Up: Potential Effects of Environmental Forcing on Apex Predators in the Gulf of Maine
3:00 pm – 3:20 pm	Break
3:20 pm – 3:40 pm	Coastwide Stock Structure of Winter Flounder Using Two Complementary Nuclear DNA Approaches
3:40 pm – 4:00 pm	Assessing the synergistic effects of ship noise and structure on cortisol levels in winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	WORKSHOP: Protected Species in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Waters