FiTREP Recapture Winners Fluke Season 2025
After a successful 2025 summer flounder season, with more than 1400 tagged fluke and 164 recaptures, we’re proud to announced this year’s winners: Neil Simpson, recaptured a 15′ fluke in … Read More
News
REPOST: National TRAP Program targets ghostly issue with second round of coastal clean up funding
A total of $149,168 was awarded to Principal Investigators Sarah Borsetti and Jenny Shinn at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, Rutgers University, to remove derelict blue crab traps and pilot recycling and prevention strategies from … Read More
FiTREP helping a Eagle Scout Service Project
Jayden Weis of Flemington, NJ completed his Eagle Scout Service Project during the summer of 2025 by volunteering to help … Read More
Chase and FiTREP Featured Article in the On The Water Magazine
Paul Ziajski, one of our fellow volunteer FiTREP taggers, published an article highlighting the tagging program in this year’s September edition of the On The Water magazine! Paul speaks on … Read More
Andre featured guest on The Fisheries Podcast
Andre was recently a guest on the The Fisheries Podcast, a podcast that shares stories of the amazing people and projects that make up the fisheries science profession. He discusses … Read More
Featured URI Article of Nick O’Connor
University of Rhode Island pieced together on article on our very own NSF RIOS intern, Nick O’Connor. Not only highlighting his experiences with the lab group and the larger Haskin … Read More
FiTREP in The Fisherman article
Check this cool article highlighting the FiTREP program in a August 2024 post by The Fisherman magazine. Jim Hutchinson interviewed our collaborator Chase Wunder, graduate fellow who is spearheading the … Read More
FiTREP Summer Flounder Research Flyer
For a broad overview of our Summer flounder (Fluke) tagging program, the Fish Tagging Research and Education Program (FiTREP), we’ve provided a project highlight in one pager flyer format! This … Read More
The Borsetti Lab, welcome!
Based in southern New Jersey at the Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, our team conducts applied, cooperative fisheries research in partnership with the commercial and recreational fishing communities. This collaborative … Read More