Carole L. Neidig, M.Sc. is a Staff Scientist in the Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture. She has worked at Mote for more than 28 years as a principal or co-principal investigator on more than 30 collaborative federal, state, and non-governmental organization funded grants. Her research includes studies in the fields of Stock Enhancement, Marine Aquaculture, and Fish Biology.<\/p>\n
Her research has focused on marine fish husbandry, reproduction, maturation status, and larval and juvenile culture methods of common snook, red drum, red grouper, and black sea bass; life history, movement and migration of pelagic fishes (king and Spanish mackerel, cobia, amberjack, and dolphin); movement, migration, recapture rates, and survival of Atlantic tarpon; and movement, survival, habitat preferences, recapture rates, and contributions of priority hatchery-reared stock enhancement species including red drum, common snook and threatened Gulf Sturgeon, using implanted acoustic transmitters or other tagging methods. Ms. Neidig is working with commercial fishers to establish Mote as a center to advance the transition of electronic monitoring to a regional capacity to improve the collection of accurate catch and release data from the Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery. She has many years of experience working in partnership with commercial fishermen and commercial fishing alliances in the southeastern U.S. and southern Gulf of Mexico and recreational anglers, government agencies, community members, businesses, and environmental groups in the southeastern U.S. She has successfully involved recreational anglers as citizen scientist participants and stakeholders in a number of research projects. She is also actively involved in co-coordinating Mote Teach-A-Kid Fishing and Ecology Clinics and research fishing tournaments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13116,"template":"","department":[23],"class_list":["post-1626","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","department-fisheries-ecology-enhancement-program"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n