Northeast Bottom Trawl Survey
- Who's on first? -
(or our attempt to keep up with a very fluid situation)

Link to NJ Fishing Consumer Alert page Link to NJ Fishing Consumer Alert page
Link to Barbara Stevenson's home page
 Barbara Stevenson's home page - follow the link to a comprehensive listing of and links to virtually all of the material available on "trawlgate." 
Link to G.S.S.A. Update on Trawlgate
 A Garden State Seafood Association weekly update focusing on Trawlgate, NMFS's contentions that the survey problems were inconsequential, and industry reaction.  
Link to NOAA Press Release on inconsequential nature of survey errors
 NOAA Press Release "Groundfish Data Collected with Mismarked Gear Stand Up in Statistical Analysis"
Page of quotes regarding the sampling snafu
 Selected (but representative) quotes regarding 
the latest NMFS survey sampling snafu.
Link to NMFS trawl survey home page
 Northeast Fisheries Science Center Trawl Warp and Gear Performance Review home page.
Link to Jim Lovgren's report on the calibration cruise
 Mid-Atlantic Council member/commercial fisherman Jim Lovgren's report on the NMFS calibration cruise.
Links to info on sampling
 Links to websites dealing with fisheries sampling, statistics, etc.
Link to GSSA Weekly Update on the sampling snafu
 Link to 09/14/02 Garden State Seafood Association Weekly Update addressing "The Best Available Science" and its apparent inadequacies.
Link to Weekly Update 10/05/02
 Link to 09/14/02 Garden State Seafood Association Weekly Update addressing further developments in what is becomming known in the fishing industry as "Trawlgate."
Link to Senator Snowe's press release
 Press release on Maine Senator Snowe's legislation addressing fisheries research
Link to Senator Snowe's press release
 Problems with the Groundfish Survey (by Associated Fisheries of Maine)
Link to Congressman Delahunt's press release
 Massachusetts Congressman Delahunt calls for time-out on new fisheries regs (press release from the Congressman's office).