Eight NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellows' headshots.

August 18, 2022 (Halle Meltzer, NOAA Sea Grant) – Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries are pleased to announce the 2022 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipients. Seven population and ecosystem dynamics fellowships and one marine resource economics fellowship will be awarded through this national program.

Since 1999, the NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship program has trained the next generation of specialized experts in fisheries management. The program addresses the critical need for future fisheries scientists with expertise in stock assessment by supporting students pursuing doctoral degrees in related fields. >>Read more

MIT Sea Grant is sponsoring Marine Resource Economics Fellow Karl Aspelund (PhD student, Economics, MIT), who will work with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center on the project, Individual tradable quotas: Balancing impacts on efficiency and labor markets.

>>Read the full Sea Grant announcement