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F -- NICARAGUAN FISHERY STUDY SOL 40-DGNF-6-00052 POC Greg Smith (301) 713-0823, or by fax at (301) 713-0806, or by the Internet at ''GNSmith@RDC.NOAA.GOV'' (Please call to confirm receipt of fax or internet mail). NOAA, in support of agreements with the U.S. Agency for International Development, intends to award a contract to the University of Washington's School of Fisheries and Center for Quantitative Science/Renewable Resource Consultants and Management Assistance for Artisanal Fisheries. Under the contract, the University would assist in developing sampling strategies and overseeing field collection of data, entry into appropriate management information systems, design of systems as applicable to Nicaragua, and interpreting all such assimlated data and creating initial assessments of stocks of lobster, shrimp, reef fish, and lagoon fisheries. Further, the contractor will provide training for Nicaraguan fisheries managers in techniques of stock assessment as applied to tropical multispecies fisheries. Work will be conducted in Nicaragua's Miskito Coast Marine Reserve. The University is considered the only organization capable of conducting the work and completing the project by August 1996. The work will utilize and supplement findings developed in a 9 year Collaborative Research Program in which the University played a critical role. The work will also parallel similar work recently implemented in Costa Rica by the University. See Note 22. (0324)

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