AFSC Research Activities

FEATURE

• Bering Sea Ecosystem Research: Planning, Coordination, and Communication
  

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Salmon Survey in the North Pacific Ocean and Southeastern Bering Sea
• Kuroshima Oil Spill Response
• Intragravel Exposure of Pink Salmon Embryos to Crude Oil
• Low-level Exposure of Pacific Herring Eggs to Weathered Crude Oil
• Genetic Stock Identification of Chum Salmon Caught in Bering Sea Trawl Fishery
• Yukon River Fall-Run Chum Salmon Radio Tagging Study
• Chinook Salmon and Hatchery-Wild Stock Interaction Studies
• Steelhead/Rainbow Trout Studies at Little Port Walter Field Station
• Juvenile Sablefish Studies
• Sablefish Longline Survey Under Way
• Effects of Trawling on Benthic Habitat—Studies With a Submersible
• Internal Tags Will Tell Secrets of Sablefish Movements
• Has El Niņo 1997-98 Lost Its Punch?
• Reference Collection
  

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• Beluga Whales In Cook Inlet
• Seventh Meeting of the Alaska Scientific Review Group
• Killer Whale Research in Southeast Alaska
• Cetacean Aerial Surveys in the Gulf of Alaska
• Ice-Associated Harbor Seal Capture Techniques
• 1998 International Whaling Commission Meeting
  

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING (RACE) DIVISION

• Participation in Alaska Department of Fish and Game Gulf of Alaska Seasonality Study
• West Coast Shelf Triennial Trawl Survey
• Annual Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey
• Trawl Positioning Gear Trials
  

RESOURCE ECOLOGY & FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (REFM) DIVISION

• U.S. Groundfish Observer Program
• Age and Growth Task
• Resource Ecology and Ecosystems Modeling
• Seasonal Apportionment of Atka Mackerel Catch in Aleutian Islands to Aid Steller Sea Lion  Recovery
• Shellfish Assessment
• Flatfish Stock Assessment Review
• Socioeconomic Assessment Task