Research Activities for January- February-March 2003

FEATURE

• Understanding Fish Bycatch Discard And Escapee Mortality
  

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Use of Fatty Acids for Discriminating Forage Fish Stocks Over Fine Spatial Scales
• Evaluation of Nutritional Quality of Eulachon
• Seasonal Availability of Nearshore Prey to Steller Sea Lions at Two Haulouts in Southeast Alaska
• Annual Auke Creek Cooperative Research and Planning Meeting
• Migration of Pink Salmon Fry From Auke Lake in March 2003
• Environmental Monitoring in Auke Bay
• NMFS Aquaculture Council
• Sea Lice Science Forum
• Scientists Receive Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Training
  

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• Harbor Seal Abundance and Distribution in Cook Inlet
• Improvements to Aerial Surveys of Alaskan Harbor Seals
• Harbor Seal and Cruise Ship Interactions in Disenchantment Bay, Alaska
• ARGOS Workshop
• Dall's Porpoise Abundance
• Killer Whale Workshop
• West Coast Steller Sea Lion Survey
  

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT &
CONSERVATION ENGINEERING (RACE) DIVISION

• GROUNDFISH ASSESSMENT:
• Biodiversity as Index of Regime Shift in the Eastern Bering Sea
• Water Hauls
• Incubating Fertilized Arrowtooth Flounder Eggs
• FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY COORDINATED INVESTIGATIONS (FOCI)
• Winter Ichthyoplankton Survey and Arrowtooth Flounder Studies
• MIDWATER ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING  (MACE)
• Winter Surveys

RESOURCE ECOLOGY &
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (REFM) DIVISION

• Age and Growth Program
• U.S. NORTH PACIFIC GROUNDFISH OBSERVER PROGRAM
• Restructuring the Observer Program
• Pacific Cod Catch Accounting Study
• Safety Reports
• STATUS OF STOCKS & MULTISPECIES ASSESSMENT PROGRAM
• Doctoral Dissertation
• FIT Presentations at Marine Science Symposium
• Cod Pot Studies Summary
• RESOURCE ECOLOGY & ECOSYSTEMS MODELING PROGRAM
• Seabird Fishery Interaction Research
• Ecosystem Modeling Coordination
• Bering Sea Research Planning
• ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH PROGRAM
• Economic Data Collection Programs: BSAI Crab Fishery Data
• Electronic Logbook Pilot Project for the BSAI and GOA Groundfish Fisheries
• Measures of Economic Performance
• Sociocultural Research