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Last Updated:
January 28, 2011
   
Contact Information
Personnel List
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Brian Kelly
 
Aquatic Biologist II
Fisheries Dependent Investigations
Sea and Port Sampling
Quest Center
New Bedford
   
  DMF Responsibilities
 
  • Field sampler/observer in various state fisheries including lobster, squid, fluke, black sea bass, whiting, spiny dogfish, horseshoe crab, weir, and longline fisheries
 
  • Manages DMF FDI sea-sampling database
 
  • Keep in contact with commercial marine waterfront issues/fishermen
   
  Other Areas of Expertise
  Fish natural history, estuarine fish ecology, economics/history of commercial fisheries/gear,  fish ageing techniques, wastewater treatment, communicable disease control/public health, and nuclear power plant impact studies.
   
  Education
 

1982 - Nine public health courses completed through the Federal Centers for Disease           Control, Atlanta, Georgia.

   
  1978 - M.S. Marine Biology, 1978, University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth,   North           Dartmouth, MA.  Thesis: “Heavy metal concentrations in tissues of the biota of           New Bedford Harbor”.
   
  1975 - B.S. Biology, 1975, Stonehill College, North Easton, MA.
   
  Certifications
  AFS Certified Fishery Biologist
   


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