Recent bottomfish survey in the Northern Mariana Islands provides valuable data and fosters a new community

Recent bottomfish survey in the Northern Mariana Islands provides valuable data and fosters a new community

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and local fishers from the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI) worked together to conduct the “first-ever standardized, fishery-independent bottomfish survey in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,” per the NOAA fisheries article. The project was conducted on the NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette, where scientists and local fishers traveled over 1,900 nautical miles in …