Research Activities for October-December 2002

FEATURE

• Trends and Status of Harbor Seals in Washington State: 1978-99
  

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Southeast Alaska Steller Sea Lion Prey Study
• Genetics Laboratory Studies
• U.S. - Japan Aquaculture Panel Meetings
• Ocean Survival of Auke Creek Wild Coho Salmon
• Whalefest Celebration in Sitka
• Alaska Sablefish Assessment
• Stock Assessment of Gulf of Alaska Slope Rockfish and Pelagic Shelf Rockfish
• Pacific Sleeper Shark Relative Abundance Trends in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea
• Sablefish Product Recovery Rate
• Video Documents Aleutian Islands Coral and Sponge Habitat
• Symposium on Effects of Fishing Activities on Benthic Habitats
  

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• Workshop on Alaska Harbor Seal-Vessel Interactions
• California Current Ecosystem Program
• Cetacean Assessment and Ecology Program:
       - Ecology of Southeast Alaska Killer Whales
• Alaska Beluga Whale Committee Meeting
   
  

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING DIVISION (RACE)

• Groundfish Assessment:
       - Swimbladder Recovery in Pacific Cod after Damage Due to Barotrauma
       - Latitudinal Variation in Length at Maturity for Dover Sole from California to Alaska
• Midwater Assessment & Conservation Engineering Program (MACE)
• Shellfish Assessment:
       - Estimating Selectivity for Bristol Bay Red King Crab
  

RESOURCE ECOLOGY & FISHERIES MANAGEMENT DIVISION (REFM)

• Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessment Program:
       - 2002 Stock Assessment Summary

• Age and Growth Program
  
• Resource Ecology and Ecosystems Modeling Program:
       - Groundfish Food Habits and Predation on Commercially Important EBS Prey Species, 1993-96
       - Ecosystem Considerations in Fishery Management
• Economic and Social Sciences Program:
       - Economic Status of the Groundfish Fisheries Off Alaska
       - Social Science Workshop
       - Bycatch Management
       - Sociocultural Research