NEW BEDFORD, MA (January 01, 2009) – Teacher, fisherman, furnituremaker, marine scientist — there isn’t much that University ofMassachusetts Dartmouth professor Brian Rothschild can’t do and do well.
Luckily for the city of New Bedford, sometime in the 1990s he set his mind on seeking ways to save the local scallop fishery. A little over a decade later, scallops have made the city the biggest fishing port, in terms of dollars worth of seafood caught, in the United States. Around the same time that Dr. Rothschild, now 74, started studying scallops, he also started building up the faculty and facilities at the UMD Center for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), making it into one of the nation’s quality schools of ocean science. He was dean of the marine school from 1995 through 2006, the school’s formative decade, when it first began attracting a world-class faculty. Read the SouthCoastToday.com story in full