(click on the photograph above for more information about Fishing Communities in the Chesapeake Bay)
Maryland Sea Grant solicited nominations for
members to serve on the Socioeconomic Quantitative Ecosystem Team from
managers, academics, and other stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay region. The
team is complete and members, and their affiliations, are listed below.
Additionally, the Team will be supported by a Quantitative Support Staff (QSS),
a PhD-level student who will assist the team with authoring documents,
processing data, and developing models. The Team held its first meeting
in April 2009 and has since developed several products pertinent to EBFM in the
Chesapeake Bay including a human ecology map of EBFM for Chesapeake Bay, a
report on eco-labeling potential for Chesapeake Bay seafood, and a stakeholder
outreach strategy. The team is currently identifying critical
socioeconomic stressors for the key species and developing research proposals
to generate ecosystem based reference points that link critical ecosystem
stressors for striped bass, blue crabs, menhaden, and Alosines.
