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Hand-harvested Invertebrates

Blue Matter is working with the DFO Shellfish and Invertebrates Team to develop operating models to evaluate the performance and sustainability of current harvest strategies, including total allowable catch with spatial and seasonal closures, for hand-harvested invertebrates on the BC coast.

SLAM

Blue Matter is developing SLAM, an R package to simulate and apply an age-structured model for short-lived semelparous species, in collaboration with Biospherics and Blue Ventures.

FPAT

Blue Matter is working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to develop an open access, data-limited assessment and management tool for fisheries.

MERA

MERA is an open-source tool for analyzing risk, guiding fishery improvement projects, and evaluating fishery management strategies for certification.

North Atlantic Swordfish

Blue Matter recently extended its collaboration with ICCAT to include the development of the North Atlantic swordfish MSE framework.

Snapper-Grouper MSE

Blue Matter is working with the SAFMC to explore the impacts of various management measures across the recreational and commercial sectors of the snapper-grouper fishery in the U.