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Pingguo He

faculty

Pingguo He, PhD

Professor / Chairperson

SMAST / Fisheries Oceanography

Contact

508-910-6323

508-999-8197

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School for Marine Science & Technology East, New Bedford 127

Education

1987University of Aberdeen ScotlandPhD
1982Zhejiang Ocean UniversityBEng

Teaching

  • Fish Behavior and Conservation Engineering
  • Conservation in World Marine Capture Fisheries

Teaching

Courses

Fish behavior, fishing gear, and conservation technology and practices related to management and sustainable utilization of fisheries resources. The course will be taught with both global and local perspectives and will include the following topics: behavior of fish as individuals, schools and stocks; swimming and schooling mechanism; sensory capabilities of fish as related to capture and conservation; fish capture processes and conservation measures including recent designs and devices that reduce bycatch and discards in fisheries.

Fish behavior, fishing gear, and conservation technology and practices related to management and sustainable utilization of fisheries resources. The course will be taught with both global and local perspectives and will include the following topics: behavior of fish as individuals, schools and stocks; swimming and schooling mechanism; sensory capabilities of fish as related to capture and conservation; fish capture processes and conservation measures including recent designs and devices that reduce bycatch and discards in fisheries.

Research

Research activities

  • Reducing bycatch and discards in New England Multispecies trawl fishery
  • Reducing bycatch in scallop fishery
  • Improving utilization of healthy fish stocks

Research

Research awards

  • $ 265,984 awarded by MA Division of Marine Fisheries for Noval Fish Potting with Lights for Black Seabass and Scup: Developing Innovative Fishing Gear for Safe and Efficient Operation in Offshore Wind Farm Areas
  • $ 1,662,014 awarded by Vineyard Wind 1 LLC for VW1 Post Construction Surveys - Trawl, Ventless Trap & Plankton and Drop Camera
  • $ 102,759 awarded by AIS, Inc. for Expanding and Optimizing AI-Powered Automated Discard Accounting in New England Groundfish Fisheries
  • $ 419,462 awarded by New Bedford Port Authority for Tracking and Modelling the Behavior and Position of Fishing Vessels and their Towed Gears in Wind Energy Areas
  • $ 246,844 awarded by Responsible Offshore Science Alliance for An Analytical Framework to Assess the Regional Impacts of Offshore Wind Farms and Evaluate Fisheries Monitoring Plans

Research

Research interests

  • Sustainable fisheries
  • Fish behavior near fishing gear
  • Environmentally friendly fishing gear design
  • Evaluating and reducing fishing impact

Select publications

  • He, P. (2010).
    Behavior of Marine Fishes: Capture Process and Conservation Challenges
    Willey-Blackwell
  • O’Connell, C. P., S.Y. Hyun, S.H. Gruber, and P. He (2015).
    Effects of barium-ferrite permanent magnets on great hammerhead shark Sphyrna mokarran behavior and implications for future conservation technologies
    Endangered Species Research, 26, 243-256.
  • He, P., C. Rillahan and V. Balzano (2015).
    Reduced Herding of Flounders by Floating Bridles: Application in Gulf of Maine Northern Shrimp Trawls to Reduce Bycatch
    ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 72, 1514-1524.

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