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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

Programs

Teaching

Courses

Thesis research on an experimental or theoretical project in Marine Science or Technology under a faculty advisor.

Thesis research on an experimental or theoretical project in Marine Science or Technology under a faculty advisor.

Conservation challenges in world marine capture fisheries. This course reviews and discusses conservation challenges and mitigation measures related to management and sustainable utilization of world¿s fisheries resources. The course will be taught with global and local perspectives, and will include the following topics: history of world marine capture fisheries, status of and landing from world marine fisheries, bycatch, discard and fishing-related mortality, ecosystem effect of fishing including plastic pollution from fisheries and ghostfishing of lost gears, effect on the seabed, bycatch and mortality of marine mammals, seabirds, sea turtles and other charismatic species, fuel consumption in capture 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

  • $ 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
  • $ 919,368 awarded by Responsible Offshore Science Alliance for Connectivity and Dispersal of Black Sea Bass, Centropristis striata, within Southern New England
  • $ 216,320 awarded by Responsible Offshore Science Alliance for Evaluation of Technologies for Trawl and Dredge Vessels to Safely Operate within Offshore Wind Farms  

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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