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Scallop survey technologies get grilling by select NOAA panel
In the scallop science world, what’s going on this week on the waterfront is a little like a battle of the bands: three competing methods of surveying scallops, pitted against each other in front of a panel of tough scientific judges. Dr. Kevin Stokesbury of the UMass Dartmouth School for Marine Science and Technology said, “What is happening here is that they’re examining the different survey types.”. “Because NOAA wanted to have a review of all the survey techniques as the basis for what they are going to finance,” Stokesbury said. Read the rest here 11:21:
