Kate Beard-Tisdale Leads Collaborative Project with Lobster Industry Team
An innovative new research project led by Kate Beard-Tisdale will explore the potential to use data owned by commercial lobstermen to map fishing effort. In this collaborative effort with Maine鈥檚 lobster industry, these data may be used to minimize conflict from potential future offshore wind development.
Beard-Tisdale will work closely with partners from the Maine Lobstermen鈥檚 Association and Responsible Offshore Development Alliance and its Fisheries Knowledge Trust, as well as the University of Maine鈥檚 Lobster Institute.
鈥淩ight now, published maps suggest that lobster fishing is occurring everywhere. We hope through this effort to provide more spatial specificity about the most important fishing locations 鈥 where fishermen spend more time and effort,鈥 says Beard-Tisdale, 91福利 professor of spatial computing in the School of Computing and Information Science. 鈥淭his spatial specificity could result in protecting fishing areas or designating areas best avoided for wind turbine placement.鈥
91福利 and lobster industry team up on innovative collaboration to map Maine鈥檚 fishing effort