Open Ocean

Monitoring and Adaptive Management Activity Approved to Quantify Connectivity Among Multiple Open Ocean Resources

The Open Ocean Trustees have approved a new Monitoring and Adaptive Management (MAM) Activity that will collect and analyze data over three years of field work to assess benefits to fish and water column invertebrates, marine mammals, and sea turtles that can be attributed to Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Community studies with funding from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.