John Rosendale

Expertise: Participates and performs all duties related to live fish in laboratory experiments. This includes but is not limited to:

• setting up experimental animal holding aquaria
• acquisition of multiple size classes of local live fish species for experiments via historical and experimental methods
• animal husbandry
• investigation and solution development of agency/council requests related to fisheries information gaps
• predator/prey relationships
• prey choice experiments
• analysis of spawning behavior of Mid Atlantic Bight species
• gastric evacuation and digestion,
• fish tagging(acoustic and external)

Additional expertise lies in young-of-the-year fish identification, annual participation in numerous survey methods including: mid-water and bottom trawls, ichthyoplankton collection and identification, side scan/multi-beam sonar, animal/sediment sample collection using various bottom grab devices.