22551 Population Biology Branch (PBB) Project Published / External 22548 Population and Ecosystems Monitoring and Analysis Division (PEMAD) Project In Work The NEFSC's Population Biology Branch investigates and documents the biology and ecology of fishes in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Products and services focus on growth, reproduction, feeding, and movements of marine fishes. The branch has programs in Woods Hole, MA (Fishery Biology Program, Food Web Dynamics Program) and Narragansett, RI (Apex Predators Program). Research products from the Population Biology Branch are used in original research publications, as data in stock assessment models, and for management advice. Feeding data analyses and trophic modeling studies investigate ecosystem-level processes and management. The principal species of interest for such investigations are groundfishes (cods, hakes, and flounders), pelagic fishes (mackerel, herring), elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays), and select invertebrates (surfclam, squid, and northern shrimp). Theme cod Theme flounder Theme hake Theme northern shrimp Theme pelagic fish Theme rays Theme sharks Theme skates Theme squid Theme surf clam Temporal continuous Spatial North Atlantic https://nefsc.noaa.gov/femad/pbb/ Online Resource HTML Population Biology Branch webpage. 26273 Data Set 23132 Project 23131 Project 23133 Project gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:22551 Joan Palmer 2014-11-13T11:19:35 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2025-05-15T19:16:03 2016-06-28 Northeast Fisheries Science Center NEFSC 166 Water Street Woods Hole MA 02543-1026 USA (508)495-2000 https://www.nefsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday 1001 Public No 2016-06-28 1 Year 2017-06-28