James Sulikowski quoted on Wall Street Journal's Market Watch and other online media on the Atlantic dogfish fishery

James Sulikowski, associate professor, Department of Marine Sciences, was quoted in an Aug. 30, 2012 by the Marine Stewardship Council, which announced that the Atlantic dogfish fishery has been certified as Sustainable.

More than a dozen regional, fishing and seafood media outlets picked up the story, including The Wall Street Journal's , , and Fox Carolina.

Sulikowski, who served as an external reviewer in the certification process, says in the release that ""This is a step forward in the use of this resource in a responsible manner. It will open up a lot of economic opportunities for the industry as a whole and bring balance to the ecosystem."

Since 2009, Sulikowski has  been awarded  $564,000 ($337,000 from the NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program and $227,000 from the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation) to use satellite tags and tandem trawl surveys to examine the behavior and ecology of spiny dogfish in the Northwest Atlantic. The ultimate goals of this research are to provide new information on habitat, depth and movement patterns that can be used for the effective management of  this species in US waters.

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