Our lab focuses on quantitative fisheries ecology, population dynamics, and fisheries stock assessments and management.

We investigate the interactions between commercial fishing, ecological variables, and dynamics of fisheries populations and communities.

Our goal is to develop sustainable fisheries and ecosystem-based management approach, using an interdisciplinary approach of fisheries biology, ecology, management policy, decision-making theory, mathematical and statistical modeling, and computer simulations.

Research Projects

• Hudson River Biological Monitoring program (HRBMP)

  • Taskforce: Yong Chen, Natalia Castro, Hsiao-Yun Chang, Stephanie Arsenault, Katrina Rokosz, Anh Nguyen, Sarah Praisner, Xiangshan (Jenny) Mu, Krystina Braid, Abigail Costigan

• Evaluating the changing biogeography of American shad in a changing Hudson River ecosystem

  • NY Sea Grant – PIs: Yong Chen, Hsiao-Yun Chang

• Marine Fisheries Partnership (David and Lucile Packard Foundation project)

  • David and Lucile Packard Foundation – PIs: Yong Chen, Yunzhou Li

• Social-ecological vulnerability of China’s domestic fisheries to climate change (Lenfest Ocean program project)

  • Lenfest Ocean Program – PIs: Yong Chen, Yunzhou Li