{"id":5597,"date":"2014-11-25T12:31:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2014-12-04T12:58:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:58:50","slug":"lutcavage-team-to-use-hexacopter-drones-to-survey-bluefin-tuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/lutcavage-team-to-use-hexacopter-drones-to-survey-bluefin-tuna\/","title":{"rendered":"Lutcavage team to use \u2018hexacopter\u2019 drones to survey bluefin tuna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GLOUCESTER, MA \u2013 Back in 1993, Molly Lutcavage, then a scientist at the New England Aquarium, launched one of the region\u2019s first cooperative research programs, working with fishermen and spotter pilots to photograph Atlantic bluefin tuna schools from the air to get a sense of how many of the big fish actually were out there.<\/p>\n<p>That groundbreaking work provided solid evidence that there were many more bluefin in the western Atlantic than scientists had thought and helped the US industry in its struggle to retain access to the bluefin resource at a time when the fishery had been threatened with a shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades later, Lutcavage, director of the Large Pelagics Research Center of the University of Massachusetts\u2019s Gloucester Marine Research Station, is about to pioneer a whole new aerial survey technique.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a one-year $145,694 grant that Lutcavage, postdoctoral fellow Angelia Vanderlaan, and their colleagues will use to purchase two hexacopters \u2013 remote-controlled aerial devices equipped with high-resolution cameras \u2013 and design and test new aerial bluefin survey protocols&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Meta Slider - HTML Overlay - CFN_12_14-cover\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/CFN_12_14-cover-121x150.jpg\" width=\"121\" height=\"150\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the rest of this story and much, much more in the December issue of\u00a0<em>Commercial Fisheries News<\/em>. \u00a0Buy this issue or\u00a0<a title=\"Marketplace\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/marketplace\/\">Subscribe<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0[add_to_cart=5524]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(Read online immediately with access key and download for future reference.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLOUCESTER, MA \u2013 Back in 1993, Molly Lutcavage, then a scientist at the New England Aquarium, launched one of the region\u2019s first cooperative research programs, working with fishermen and spotter pilots to photograph Atlantic bluefin tuna schools from the air to get a sense of how many of the big fish actually were out there. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/lutcavage-team-to-use-hexacopter-drones-to-survey-bluefin-tuna\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,170,122,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bluefin","category-december-14","category-research","category-tuna","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5630,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions\/5630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}