{"id":470,"date":"2014-12-01T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=470"},"modified":"2024-08-27T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T18:14:00","slug":"shark-research-in-rulifson-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/shark-research-in-rulifson-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Research in the Rulifson Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
The Rulifson lab at East Carolina University has been involved in shark research since 1996, most of which has been supported by North Carolina Sea Grant. After being approached by commercial fishermen interested in the then-developing fishery for spiny dogfish sharks in North Carolina, Roger Rulifson, graduate student Tina Moore, and commercial fisherman Chris Hickman conducted the first of many N.C. Fishery Resource Grant-funded projects on the demographics, stock structure and migration behavior of spiny dogfish overwintering off North Carolina. From 1997 to 2000, they tagged and collected basic biological information from dogfish, data that proved vital when the fishery collapsed in 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n