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Amanda Jargowsky
Marine Fisheries Specialist
Amanda Jargowsky is a marine fisheries specialist with the MASGC-supported Marine Fisheries Ecology Program at the Mississippi State University Coastal Research and Extension Center. She conducted extension efforts for the Gulf-wide Great Red Snapper Count project and currently manages the Reef Fish Extension project across the Gulf and South Atlantic regions.
As part of the Reef Fish Extension project, she coordinates the annual FISHES: Fishermen Invested in Science, Healthy Ecosystems, and Sustainability course held in coastal Mississippi. She communicates scientific information to the public and fisheries stakeholders through outreach events, newsletters, blogs and social media posts.
Amanda holds a master's degree in marine sciences from the University of South Alabama. Her thesis work focused on the distribution, abundance, age and growth of gray triggerfish off Alabama's coast. Her bachelor's degree is in marine biology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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The Marine Fisheries Ecology group at Mississippi State is focused on providing science-based solutions to common issues affecting commercial and recreational fishermen in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Its research objectives are to better understand the abundance and distribution, life history (age and growth, maturity), movements and migrations, and feeding ecology of a wide range of important species, including coastal sharks, reef fishes and coastal pelagics.
This regional collaborative of Sea Grant fisheries Extension specialists, university scientists and fisheries managers was awarded $2.4 million by the National Sea Grant College Program in September 2021. The aim is to develop and implement extension and outreach programming related to reef fish research and management in the South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.