Jason Morson’s research interests include population dynamics, stock assessment, and fisheries management. He aimed to understand how and why fish and shellfish populations change to enable better marine resource management practices. Jason worked as an Associate Research Scientist at the Rutgers University Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory. He has conducted cooperative research with commercial and recreational fishing industry members and stakeholders in New Jersey and throughout the Mid- Atlantic region for over a decade. This has included collaborating with fishermen to conduct applied research on summer flounder, black sea bass, sea scallops, surf clams, and oysters. Jason is the lead stock assessment scientist for the New Jersey Delaware Bay oyster stock assessment and has expertise in several relevant fields including fishery-independent survey design and analysis, fisheries ecology and stock assessment modeling. Jason co-lead the bottom trawl and structured habitat survey of the Ørsted Ocean Wind 1 fisheries monitoring plan. Jason joined the NEFSC in 2024 as the Hook & Line Survey Lead with the Cooperative Research Branch.
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