AFSC Research Activities

(Quarterly Report for Oct-Nov-Dec 1999)

Dave Withrow with juvenile harbor seal

FEATURE

• Advancements in Alaska Harbor Seal Census Methodology
   

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Alaska Sablefish Assessment
• Stock Assessment of Slope and Pelagic Shelf Rockfish in Gulf of Alaska
• Eight Tagged Sablefish Recovered in 1999
• Alaska Longline Survey Completed
• Effects of Trawling on Soft-bottomed Marine Habitat
• Alaska Chum Salmon Issues
• Origins of Sockeye and Chum Salmon Seized From the Vessel Ying Fa
• Comprehensive Allozyme Database Discriminates Chinook Salmon Around  Pacific Rim
• Yukon River Radio-Tagging Project
• Lipid Class and Fatty Acid Analysis of Forage Fish Diets
• Evidence and Consequences of Persistent Oil in Pink Salmon Streams
• NPAFC Annual Meeting and Symposium
  

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• 1999 On-Ice Monitoring and Research Workshop
• Alaska Scientific Review Group Meeting
• The 13th Biennial Meeting of Society for Marine Mammalogy
• Low Frequency Active (LFA) Noise and Marine Mammals
• Gray Whale Strandings: January - October 1999
• Depths at Sighting Sites of Harbor Porpoise and Dall?s Porpoise in Gulf of Alaska and Adjacent Inland Waters
• U.S.-Russian Marine Mammal Cooperative Agreement
• California Current Ecosystems
  

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING (RACE) DIVISION

• 1999 Gulf of Alaska Biennial Groundfish Assessment Survey
• Trawl Impact Studies in Eastern Bering Sea
• Influence of Bottom Temperature on Distribution and Abundance Estimates from EBS Crab/Groundfish Bottom Trawl Survey
• West Coast Upper Continental Slope Groundfish Resources
  

RESOURCE ECOLOGY & FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (REFM) DIVISION

• Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessment Program
• Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling Program
  • Diets of Pacific and Giant Grenadier
  • Winter Feeding Habits of Pacific Whiting (Merluccius productus)
  • PICES Science: 1999
  • Age and Growth Program
• U.S. Groundfish Observer Program
  • Highlights of 1999: CDQ and AFA Fisheries
  • Observer Program Review
• Socioeconomic Assessments Program
  • Cost, Earnings, and Employment Survey
  • Spatial Modeling of Groundfish Fisheries
  • Common Property Institutions
  • Fishery Participation Rate Modeling
  • Excess Processing Capacity
    

ITEMS

• John N. Cobb Sails Past Half Century Mark

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