AFSC Research Activities

FEATURE

• Steller Sea Lion Population Assessment
   

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Adaptive Sampling of Rockfishes in the Gulf of Alaska
• Sablefish Longline Survey Completed
• Sablefish and Rockfish Early Life History
• Effects of Trawling on a Soft-bottomed Marine Ecosystem
• Waning El Niņo to be Replaced by La Niņa
• Eelgrass: Essential Fish Habitat in Southeast Alaska
• New Methods for Assessing Nearshore Essential Fish Habitat
• Natural Hydrocarbon Background in Prince William Sound
• Exxon Valdez Restoration Studies Continue
• Survey of Juvenile Salmon in the Marine Waters of Southeast Alaska, May–August 1998
• Third Annual Survey of Juvenile Salmon in the North Pacific Ocean Completed
• Otolith-Marked Salmon Caught in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea
• Forecast Models Developed for Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon
• Rope Trawl Compared With Gillnet For Capturing Young Salmon and Sablefish
• 1998 Radiotagging of Yukon River Salmon
  

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• Small Cetacean Aerial Survey in the Gulf of Alaska
• Harbor Porpoise Tagging Research in the San Juan Islands
• Beluga Whale Surveys in the Chukchi Sea, July 1998
• Harbor Seal Studies in Alaska
  

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING (RACE) DIVISION

• GROUNDFISH ASSESSMENT: 1998 West Coast Triennial Bottom Trawl Survey Completed
• Trawl Efficiency Work
• Comparing Groundfish Densities in Trawlable and Untrawlable Areas
• Eastern Bering Sea Crab/Groundfish Survey
• Life History Aspects of Noncommercial Species in the Eastern Bering Sea
• Participation in Alaska Department of Fish and Game Gulf of Alaska Seasonality Study
• Midwater Assessment & Conservation Engineering Research Cruise
• Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations  (FOCI)
  

RESOURCE ECOLOGY & FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (REFM) DIVISION

• Age and Growth Program
• Resource Ecology and Ecosystems Modeling
• Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessments
• Feasibility Study of Using a Single Beam Seabed Classification System to Identify and Quantify Slope Rockfish Habitats in the Gulf of Alaska
• Socioeconomic Assessment Program
• U.S. Groundfish Observer Program