Education

Research interests

• Fish behavior and fishing gear
• Sustainable utilization of fisheries resource of the northeastern U.S. and beyond
• Use of flume tank modeling techniques, computer simulations, sea trials, underwater video observations, and statistical methods to understand fish behavior near fishing gears
• Application of fish behavioral knowledge to fishing gear designs and operations to reduce bycatch, discards, megafauna interactions, and impact of fishing on the seabed

Research activities

• Testing a haddock trawl to reduce cod bycatch
• Designing a shrimp trawl grid to reduce bycatch of small fish and small shrimps
• Designing/testing a squid trawl to reduce butterfish bycatch in southern New England
• Testing a whiting trawl to reduce flounder bycatch in Maine

Select publications

He, P., and V. Balzano (2012).
The effect of grid spacing on size selectivity of shrimps in a pink shrimp trawl with a dual-grid size sorting system
Fisheries Research, 121-122, 81-97.

Videler, J.J., and P. He (2010).
Swimming in Marine Fishes
Behavior of Marine Fishes: Capture Processes and Conservation Challenges, 1, 5-24.

He, P., and M. Pol
Fish Behavior near Gillnets: Capture Processes and Influencing Factors
Behavior of Marine Fishes: Capture Processes and Conservation Challenges, 8, 183-204.

External links

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