Completed Research and Monitoring Projects

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RFAB Projects

Year

Website and/or PDF

Connecting Productivity in Eelgrass Beds to Recreationally Important Finfishes in Chesapeake Bay: Forage Fishes as Trophic Conduits - VIMS

2010-11

RF10-05 (PDF)
PDF

Estimate and Assess Social and Economic Importance and Value of Menhaden to Chesapeake Bay Stakeholders and Region (3 Year Study) - VIMS

2007-11

RF09-11 (PDF)
PDF

Migrations of Adult Summer Flounder from Chesapeake Bay: Implications for Stock Structure - VIMS

2009-11

RF09-05 (PDF)
PDF

Virginia Game Fish Tagging Program Annual Report - VIMS/VMRC

2011

RF11-04 (PDF)
PDF

Use of Pop-Up Satellite Archival Tags (PSATs) to Determine the Fate, Movements, and Habitat Utilization of Red Drum Released from Virginia's Recreational Fishery - VIMS

2009-10

RF09-06 (PDF)
PDF

Estimating Relative Abundance of Young of Year American Eel, Anguilla rostrata, in the Virginia tributaries of Chesapeake Bay - VIMS

2011

RF/CF11-01 (PDF)
PDF

Pilot Study: Application of pop-up satellite archival tags (PSATs) to assess postrelease survival, habitat utilization and short term movement of striped bass in Virginia's winter recreational fishery - VIMS

2008

RF08-06 (PDF)
PDF

Estimate and Assess Social and Economic Importance and Value of Menhaden to Chesapeake Bay Stakeholders and Region (3 Year Study), Year 2 - VIMS

2009

RF/CF08-02 (PDF)
PDF

Visual Function in Chesapeake Bay Sport and Prey Fishes: Summer Flounder, Bluefish, Cobia, and Atlantic Menhaden (Year 2) - VIMS

2007

RF07-14 (PDF)
PDF

Abundance, Distribution and Biology of Sharks and Rays in Chesapeake Bay and Virginia's Coastal Lagoons: Continuation of a Long-term Monitoring and Research Program - VIMS

2007

RF07-16 (PDF)
PDF

A Genetic Assessment of the Potential for Local Depletion of Atlantic Menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) within Chesapeake Bay - VIMS

2007

RF07-06 (PDF)
PDF

Towards Validation of Juvenile Indices of Abundance for Several Fish Species in Chesapeake Bay - VIMS

2006

RF/CF06-02 (PDF)
PDF

Understanding Localized Movements and Habitat Associations of Summer Flounder in Chesapeake Bay Using Passive Acoustic Arrays - VIMS

2006

RF06-11 (PDF)
PDF

Chesapeake Bay Trophic Interaction Laboratory Services (CTILS) (external site) - VIMS

2005

RF05-12 (PDF)
PDF

Estimating Relative Juvenile Abundance of Recreationally Important Finfish and Crustaceans in the Virginia Portion of Chesapeake Bay - VIMS

2005

RF05-15 (PDF)
PDF

Impact on Mycobacteriosis on the striped bass recreational fishery in Chesapeake Bay: What is the fate of infected fish? - VIMS

2005

RF05-05 (PDF)
PDF

The value of seagrass habitats to the ecosystem in Chesapeake Bay - VIMS

2005

RF05-06 (PDF)
PDF

Visual Function in Chesapeake Bay Sport and Prey Fishes: Summer Flounder, Bluefish, Cobia, and Atlantic Menhaden - VIMS

2006

RF06-08 (PDF)
PDF

Investigations of Mycobacteriosis in Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Morone saxatilis: Large-Scale field Survey and Molecular Diagnostics - VIMS

2005

RF05-13 (PDF)
PDF

What is the cause of menhaden recruitment failure? Quantifying the role of striped bass predation - ODURF

2005

RF/CF05-01 (PDF)
PDF

Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration (Wallop-Breaux) Projects

Year

Website and/or PDF

These projects continue year after year as required by ASMFC (external site), Fisheries Mgt. Plans ...
Principle Investigators:
VIMS, Fisheries Science (external site) & ODURF, CQFE (external site)

USFWS -
Fed. Aid Link (PDF) (external site)

Estimating Relative Juvenile Abundance of Ecologically Important Finfish in the Virginia Portion of Chesapeake Bay- VIMS

2011-12

F-104-R-16 (PDF)
PDF

Monitoring Relative Abundance of American Shad in Virginia's Rivers - VIMS

2010-11

F-116-R-13 (PDF)
PDF

ChesMMAP - Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program - VIMS

2010-11

F-130-R-6 (PDF)
PDF

Support of Facilities to Provide Marine Finfish Ageing for VA (includes Sheepshead) - ODURF

2010

F-126-R-8 (PDF)
PDF

Population Dynamics of Grouper and Tilefish (Year 1 of 3) - ODURF - Also, species information on golden tilefish

2010-11

F-132-R-1 (PDF)
PDF

Striped Bass Relative Abundance in the VA Portion of the Chesapeake Bay - Juvenile Striped Bass - VIMS

2010

F-87-R-22 (PDF)
PDF

Evaluation of Striped Bass Stocks in Virginia: Tagging and Monitoring Studies - VIMS

2010-11

F-77-R-24 (PDF)
PDF

Estimating Relative Juvenile Abundance of Recreationally Important Finfish in the Virginia Portion of Chesapeake Bay - VIMS

2010-11

F-104-R-15 (PDF)
PDF

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