The mission of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center is to
generate the scientific information and analysis necessary for the conservation,
management, and utilization of the region's living marine resources.
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- The 15th annual report to Congress on the nation's Status of Stocks shows a record number of stocks were declared rebuilt in 2011 with a decrease in both categories of overfishing and overfished determinations. More>
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- NOAA’s Fisheries Service is issuing two incidental harassment authorizations to Shell for energy exploration activities in shallow waters in the Arctic during a limited period this summer. The authorizations specify measures to protect marine mammals and the subsistence interests of Alaskan Natives and are informed by the latest science as well as lessons learned from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. More>
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- By connecting information collected during Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS) research surveys to bycatch, AFSC scientists identify how size, foraging behavior, and foraging hotspots of chum salmon are important controlling factors of bycatch and bycatch potential in Bering Sea groundfish fisheries. More>
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- AFSC scientists examine habitat use by age-0 Tanner crabs in four Kodiak embayments: Pillar Creek Cove, Holiday Beach, Kalsin Bay, and Womens Bay. Womens Bay, in particular, was chosen because it supports a Tanner crab subsistence fishery and is regarded as a crab nursery. More>
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- This project represents 17 years of tracking a total of 192 tagged red king crabs and demonstrates that ghost fishing has a large negative effect on the red king crab stock in Womens Bay and may be an important contributor to the lack of stock recovery in the bay. More>
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- NMFS has been tagging and releasing sablefish in Alaska waters since 1972 with over 350,000 tags released and more than 30,000 recovered. A total 653 sablefish tags were recovered in 2011. The fish at liberty the longest was for 34 years, and the greatest distance traveled by a tagged sablefish recovered in 2011 was 1,731 nmi. More>
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- Octopus are different from most groundfish in that they do not have a swim bladder, so the sudden pressure changes from being brought to the surface do not cause traumatic injury. Because of this, stock assessment scientists have suggested considering using a discard mortality factor in catch accounting for octopus. More>
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Last updated
14 May, 2012
