SAVE THE SUMMER FLOUNDER FISHERY FUND HIRES DR. MARK MAUNDER FOR SCIENTIFIC
ASSESSMENT OF SUMMER FLOUNDER
The Save the Summer Flounder Fishery Fund (SSFFF), the nonprofit organization
formed in New Jersey to seek scientific and legislative solutions to the crisis facing those whose livelihoods depend on a
healthy and vibrant recreational summer flounder fishery, has announced the hiring of internationally recognized fisheries
biologist Mark Maunder, Ph.D., to assist in its pursuit of those scientific solutions.
Dr. Maunder, whose research focuses on the development of statistical
methodology for fisheries stock assessment, protected species and ecological modeling, will both review the current Summer
Flounder Stock Assessment and methodologies, and attend the upcoming Stock Assessment Workshop (SAW) for Summer Flounder in
June 2008.
