Research Activities for July-September 2002

FEATURE

• Origin of Juvenile Chum Salmon From Gulf of Alaska Coastal Waters, 2001

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Mechanism for Transport Of Oil-Contaminated Groundwater Into Pink Salmon Redds
• Bering-Aleutian Salmon International  Survey (BASIS), September 2002
• Radio-tagging Study on Yukon River Chinook Salmon
• Eastern Bering Sea Juvenile Salmon Surveys
• 2002 Sablefish Longline Survey Completed
• Juvenile Sablefish Tagging Studies in St. John Baptist Bay
• Sablefish Tag Program Summarized
• Aleutian Coral Explorations
• Mapping of Habitat of Major Fishing Grounds
• Southeast Alaska Steller Sea Lion Prey Study
• Southeast Alaska Coastal Monitoring
  

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• Alaska Ecosystems Program
       - Steller Sea Lion Research
       - Northern Fur Seal Research
       - U.S.-Russia Meeting
• California Current Ecosystems
       - San Miguel Island
       - Harbor Seals
       - Southern Resident Killer Whale Foraging Behavior
       - Harbor Porpoise Aerial Surveys
       - Inland Washington Waters Small Cetacean Boat Surveys
       - Washington Harbor Porpoise Movements
• Polar Ecosystems Program
       - Haul-out Behavior of Harbor Seals in Southeast Alaska
       - Abundance Surveys of Alaska Harbor Seals
       - Photogrammetry of Harbor Seals at Glacial Ice Haul-out Sites
• Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program
       - Killer Whale Research in the Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, and Bering Sea
  

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING DIVISION (RACE)

• Groundfish Assessment
       - 2002 Groundfish Assessment Survey, Aleutian Islands Region
       - 2002 Bering Sea Shelf Crab-Groundfish Bottom Trawl Survey
       - 2002 Eastern Bering Sea Upper Continental Slope Biennial Groundfish Survey
       - Defining Habitat of Juvenile Pacific Cod
       - Effects of Seafloor Sediment Composition, Depth, and Food Availability on Groundfish Distribution
       - Identification and Characterization of Atka Mackerel Reproductive Habitat
       - Bottom Trawling Research and Reconnaissance Surveying in Bristol Bay
• Midwater Assessment & Conservation Engineering (MACE)
       - Fishery Interaction Study
       - Preliminary Results of the Eastern Bering Sea EIT Pollock Survey
• Recruitment Processess
       - Distribution of Age-1 and Age-2 Walleye Pollock in the Gulf of Alaska and Eastern Bering Sea:
          Sources of Variation and Implications for Higher Trophic Levels
       - Age-0 Walleye Pollock and Capelin in the Western Gulf of Alaska: Potential Competitive Interaction?
• Shellfish Assessment- Kodiak Laboratory
       - Red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) Bristol Bay
       - Red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) Pribilof District
       - Pribilof Islands blue king crab (P. platypus) Pribilof District.
       - St. Matthew blue king crab (P. platypus) Northern District.
       - Tanner crab (Chionoecetes bairdi) Eastern District.
       - Snow crab (C. opilio) All districts combined.
       - Hair crab (Erimacrus isenbeckii)
       - Snow Crab Research
  

RESOURCE ECOLOGY & FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION (REFM)

• U.S. North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program
       - Training, Briefing, and Debriefing Statistics
       - Proposed Rule
       - Observer Advisory Committee
• Age and Growth Program
• Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessment Program
       - Atka Mackerel Tagging
       - Fishery Interaction Experiment
       - Stock Assessment Modeling Changes:  Atka Mackerel       Arrowtooth Flounder
       - Adak Island Rockfish Submersible Study
• Resource Ecology and Ecosystems Modeling Program
       - Sensitivity analysis of the multispecies virtual population analysis model parameterized for a system
         of trophically-linked species from the eastern Bering Sea
       - Uncertainty in Trophic Cascade Models
  
• Economic and Social Sciences Program
       - Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization
       - Fishing Capacity
       - Subsistence Hunting and Fishing Practices
       - Field Research