Resource Ecology & Ecosystem Modeling Program

• Fish Stomach Collection and Lab Analysis
   
• Predator/Prey Interactions
   
• Ecosystems Considerations
   
• Ecosystem Modeling
   
• Seabird Interactions
   

Economics & Social Sciences Research Program

• Survey Form Developed for Southwest Region Economic Data Collection Project
   
• Second Phase of Integrated Economic-Ecosystem Modeling Project Launched
   
• Estimating Economic Base Relationship for Alaska Fisheries Within Panel Cointegration Framework
   
• New Economic Data Collection Projects Planned for 2006
   
• Research Proposals Funded for 2006
   
• Gulf of Alaska Halibut IFQ and Small Remote Fishing Communities
   
• Staff Appointments
   
• Alaska Community Profiles Released as Technical Memorandum
   
• Salmon Bycatch in the Bering Sea Pollock Fishery
   

Status of Stocks & Multispecies Assessment Program

• Aleutian Islands Pollock Acoustic Survey Feasibility Study
   
• Western Groundfish Conference Presentations:
     - Looking for Localized Depletion in Bering Sea Pacific Cod
     - Aspects of the Life History of the Alaska Skate, Bathyraja parmifera
     - The Management Strategy Evaluation Approach and the Gulf of Alaska Walleye Pollock Fishery
     - The Effect of Maternal Age of Spawning on Estimation of Fmsy for Alaskan Pacific Ocean Perch
     - Histological Validation of a Visual Maturity Key for Pacific Cod
   
• Alaska Marine Science Symposium Presentations
     - Processes Affecting the Productivity of Capelin and Pollock in the Gulf of Alaska
     - Reproductive Ecology of Atka Mackerel
   

Age & Growth Program

• Production Figures / Walleye Pollock Studies
   
• US-Vietnam Bilateral Workshop and Eighth Pacific Rim Fisheries Conference
   

Resource Ecology & Fisheries Management (REFM) Division

• REFM Homepage