March 31, 2014 — They’ll be talking fish and fisheries at Maritime Gloucester on Thursday nights throughout the month of April during the speaker series presented by the Large Pelagics Research Center of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
The center, based at Hodgkins Cove in Annisquam, has assembled a diverse lineup of marine scientists and researchers for the series that begins Thursday at 7 p.m. and is free to the public at Maritime Gloucester on Harbor Loop.
“Our goal is to inform and educate the general public about fishing science,” said Molly Lutcavage, the director of the Large Pelagics Research Center. “We’ve chosen as speakers scientists who are very well known in the field, as well as being good communicators.”
Lutcavage said the speakers were chosen with an eye toward providing the audience with a glimpse of their field of expertise, but also with the goal of providing a sense of what it is like to engage in scientific research on the water, beyond the walls of land-side laboratories.