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The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council is seeking proposals from qualified and experienced contractors to develop models based on Ecosim to demonstrate the feasibility of using ecosystem modeling as a tool to address fishery management issues of interest in the Gulf of Mexico fisheries.  Issues of interest include:

Primary Issues
-	Red Snapper-Shrimp interactions;
-	Multi-species (MPA) effects on snapper-grouper;
-	Gulf of Mexico hypoxic area from drainage from the Mississippi River effects on demersal and pelagic ecosystems 

Secondary Issues
-	Role menhaden as a forage base in the Gulf;
-	Impacts of red tide on Gulf of Mexico ecosystem;
-	Impacts of artificial reefs on Gulf of Mexico ecosystem 

For more information, go to the Council's website (http://www.gulfcouncil.org) and click under Current News.  The deadline for submission of proposals is August 18, 2006.

Steven Atran
Population Dynamics Statistician
Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council
 

 




 
                   

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