Auke Bay Laboratories

• Groundfish Stock Assessments
  
  

Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division

• FMA Observer Program Activities in 2012
  
  

National Marine Mammal Laboratory

• Satellite Tracking of Adult Female Steller Sea Lions in the Western-Central Aleutian Islands Reveals Diverse Foraging Behaviors
  
  
• Soviet Illegal Whaling in the North Pacific: Reconstructing the True Catches
  
  
• Accounting for Species Identification Errors from Aerial Surveys of Ice-associated Seals

Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management

• Fish Stomach Collection and Lab Analysis
   
• Diet Composition of Walleye Pollock in the Eastern Bering Sea, 1987-2011, and Predator-Prey Relationships with Copepods and Euphausiids
   
• Seabird Bycatch Estimates for Alaskan Federal Groundfish Fisheries
   
• Alaska Marine Ecosystem Considerations: 2012 Report Completed and Posted Online
  
  
• Using Vulnerability Indicators to Aid in the Assessment of Vulnerability and Resiliency in Alaskan Communities
   
  
• Two-stock Bioeconomic Model for Estimating Joint Economic Yield of Bristol Bay Red King Crab and Eastern Bering Sea Snow Crab
  
  
• Advances in the Stock Assessment and Fisheries Evaluation – Economic Status Report
  
  
• Update on Groundfish Stock Assessments for the 2013 Fishery
  


• SSMA Staff Participate in the PICES 2012 Annual Meeting
  
  
• Recent Advances in Otolith Geochemistry as a Tool for Understanding Fish Biogeography and Age Validation
  
  
• Otolith Microchemical Fingerprinting: Assessing Juvenile Pacific Cod Habitat Utilization in the Gulf of Alaska
  
  
• Preliminary Age Validation of Pacific Cod Using Stable Oxygen Isotope (δ18O) Signatures in Otoliths
  
  
• Preliminary Results on the Age Validation of Big Skate (Beringraja binoculata) and Longnose Skate (Raja rhina) using Bomb-Derived Radiocarbon
  
  
• Age and Growth Program Production Numbers
  

Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division

• Field Validation of RAMP Approach for Determining Bycatch Mortality

Looking southward from high over the Arctic Ocean, NASA's Aqua satellite reveals coastal phytoplankton blooms in the Chukchi Sea along northern Alaska (foreground) stretching into the Bering Strait in September 2006. Credit: NASA More>

Research Feature

• Attributes of the Eastern Chukchi Sea Food Web With Comparisons to Three Northern Marine Ecosystems

Milestones

• More than 500 Years of Federal Service!
  
  
• Bill Heard Retires with 52 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Jeep Rice Retires with 41 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Brenda Shiraki Retires with 38 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Russ Nelson Retires with 36 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Chuck Fowler Retires with 35 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Frank Thrower Retires with 35 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Dave Clausen Retires with 34 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• John Thedinga Retires with 34 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Scott Johnson Retires with 33 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Kevin Bailey Retires with 32 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Sarah Hinckley Retires with 31 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Ed Dunn Retires with 28 Years of Fdderal Service
  
  
• Pat Harris Retires with 25 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Jay Kennedy Retires with 23 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Jan Haaga Retires with 22 Years of Federal Service
  
  
• Mike Guttormsen Retires with 22 Years of Federal Service
  

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