The marine waters of Southeast Alaska support major fisheries for salmonid and non-salmonid fishes. The Southeast Alaska Coastal Monitoring Program was established in 1997 to study biological and physical environmental conditions along major migratory corridors of juvenile salmon, in particular chum (Oncorhynchus keta) and pink (O. gorbuscha) salmon during their spring and summer migration to the open Gulf of Alaska. Monthly cruises during May through August track the growth and survival of wild and hatchery stocks with particular emphasis on forage conditions. Primary production is tracked through surface nutrients and chlorophyll-a concentration. Secondary production is tracked through zooplankton species composition and standing crop as sampled by 505, 333, and 200 µm mesh nets.

Contact:
Dr. Bruce L. Wing
Auke Bay Laboratories
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries

Auke Bay Marine Station
11305 Glacier Hwy
Juneau AK 99801
(907) 789-6043
Bruce.Wing@noaa.gov

Supporting Research

• Mecklenberg, C. W., T. A. Mecklenberg, and L. K. Thosteinson. 2002. Fishes of Alaska. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD, 1037 p.
  
  
• Wing, B.L. and D. R. Barnard. 2004. A field guide to Alaskan Corals. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-ABSC-146, 67 p.
   
• Cairns, S. D., and F. M. Bayer. 2005. A review of the genus Primnoa (Octocorallia: Gorgonacea: Primnoidae), with the description of two new species. Bull. Mar. Sci. 77(22)225-256..
   
• Lambert, P. 2000. Sea Stars of British Columbia, Southeast Alaska, and Puget Sound. Royal British Columbia Handbook, UBC Press, 186 p.

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