The Elusive Giant Pacific Octopus

Additional Resources

• AFSC NPRB Conrath Conners Octopus Studies 2009-2011 Kodiak Alaska Life History and Habitat Pot Gear Metadata
  
  
• North Pacific Research Board project 906, (pdf; 797KB)
  
  
• Long-term retention of internal elastomer tags in a wild population of North Pacific giant octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini), Fisheries Research, 2012. Brewer, Reid S.
  
  
• Field Guide to Squids and Octopods of the Eastern North Pacific and Bering Sea
  
  
• New Management Challenge in Alaska - Octopus! poster, pdf 1.1, MB
   
• AFSC Quarterly Report articles:
      Discard Mortality for Octopus, Jan-Mar 2012
      Octopus Catch Limits and Beak-Size to Body-Mass Relationship, October-December 2011
      Field Trials of Octopus Tagging: Pot Gear a Success, April-June 2010
      Researchers to Use Pots, Tags, and Divers in Study of Alaskan Octopus, July-Sept 2009
      Other articles
   
• AFSC Groundfish Stock Assessments for 2011 Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands (pdf; 632KB) and Gulf of Alaska (pdf; 505KB)
   
• "NOAA Researchers to Study Alaskan Octopus Fishery" (commercial-fishing.org)
   
• "Octopus Poses Problems for Pot Cod Boats and Researchers". By Alexandra Gutierrez, 15 November 2011, Unalaska Community Broadcasting (kubc.org)
   
• "Surveying the Giant Pacific Octopus". By Tara Borland, Proposal Coordinator. University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences newsletter, fall 2009. (sfos-uaf.edu)
   
• "Non Targeted Species Management", North Pacific Fishery Management Council (fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc)
   
• "Encounters Radio: An Octopus Garden". Hosted by Elizabeth Arnold and Reid Brewer, 13 September 2010. NPRB.
  (nprb.org),  audio podcast)
   
• "Eight Legs, New Tattoo: What's an Octopus to do?" (Reid Brewer's talks). By Naomi Klouda, Homer Tribune, Alaska.
  ( homertribune.com)
   
• Reid Brewer's web page

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