Education

Research

Research activities

• Drop camera survey
• Offshore wind farm impacts
• Whelk surveys
• Scallop research
• Marine benthic ecology

Research awards

• $ 159,240 awarded by Clearwater Seafoods for 2026 Canadian Georges Bank and Browns Bank Drop Camera Survey
• $ 242,134 awarded by New England Fishery Management Council for Development of Stock Projection Methods for Atlantic Sea Scallops
• $ 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
• $ 248,005 awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Optical and Biological Sampling of the Sea Scallop Resource in the Gulf of Maine (RSA)
• $ 91,492 awarded by NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN for Intensive Drop Camera Surveys of Sea Scallops in Two Key Areas of Georges Bank (RSA)

Research interests

• Fishery data analysis
• Survey design and analysis
• Data modeling
• Statistics
• Scallops

Select publications

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• AJ Delargy, GI Lambert, MJ Kaiser, JG Hiddink (2022).
  Potential highly variable catch efficiency estimates complicate estimation of abundance
  Fisheries Research, 245, 106138.
  European Fisheries Fund
• AJ Delargy, N Hold, C Heney, RP Cann, K Bhandari, CN Colvin, ...AJ Delargy, N Hold, C Heney, RP Cann, K Bhandari, CN Colvin, ... (2022).
  Detection and quantification of differences in catch rates among research vessel gears and commercial vessels
  Fisheries Research, 254, 106371.
  European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
• AJ Delargy, L Blackadder, I Bloor, C McMinn, DB Rudders, CL Szostek, ... (2023).
  A global review of catch efficiencies of towed fishing gears targeting scallops
  Reviews in Fisheries Science & Aquaculture, 31, 296-319.
  
• JG Hiddink, S Valanko, AJ Delargy, PD van Denderen (2023).
  Setting thresholds for good ecosystem state in marine seabed systems and beyond
  ICES Journal of Marine Science, 80, 698-709.
  European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101024886
• LE Richardson, A Heenan, AJ Delargy, P Neubauer, J Lecky, JM Gove, ... (2023).
  Local human impacts disrupt depth-dependent zonation of tropical reef fish communities
  Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-12.
  Various

I am interested in statistical and mathematical analyses of fisheries data. My initial research has focused on scallop fishery catch rates, survey design and stock assessment modelling. I also research crab, lobster, whelk,  groundfish, and coral reef fisheries, as well as impacts of bottom towed gears and offshore wind farm development.

Additional links

• Google Scholar
• Research Gate

Mentioned in

• May 10, 2024 SMAST faculty receive $4.9 million through sea scallop research program