RESEARCH PROJECT COUNTS AMBERJACK POPULATIONS

MOBILE, Ala., June 2 -- University of South Alabama issued the following news release:

A multi-year research project to estimate the number of greater amberjack in the U.S. South Atlantic and Gulf of America has provided new insight into the species. The Greater Amberjack Count was led by Dr. Sean P. Powers, fisheries ecology professor and director of the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the University of South Alabama.

In 2020, recognizing a lack of biological and ecological information about greater amberjack, Congress appropriated $5 million to NOAA Fisheries and $5 million to the National Sea Grant College Program to fund the Greater Amberjack Count. With matching funds from institutions, the project totaled $11.7...