NEFSC is headquartered in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, where fisheries research began as early as 1871, when this center of marine science was conceived by Spencer Fullerton Baird, first US Commissioner of Fisheries. NMFS' regional science center for the Northeast manages a multidisciplinary program of basic and applied research to better understand living marine resources of the Northeast Continental Shelf Ecosystem, from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras. NEFSC's research divisions include Ecosystems & Aquaculture, Fishery Monitoring & Research, Population & Ecosystems Monitoring & Analysis, and Resource Evaluation & Assessment.
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