The unique patterns on the flukes of humpback whales such as these in the Gulf of Alaska help identify individuals, thereby allowing the use of mark-recapture models to estimate whale abundance. Photo by John Moran. More>

RESEARCH FEATURE

Humpback Whale Predation and the Case for Top-Down Control of Local Herring Populations in the Gulf of Alaska

DIVISION and LABORATORY RESEARCH REPORTS

  Auke Bay Laboratories

  Auke Bay Laboratories

• Auke Bay Annual Climatological Summary
   

Marine Ecology & Stock Assessment Program

• 2010 Sablefish Longline Survey
   
• Longline Survey Database, Website, and Video
   
• Rougheye and Blackspotted Rockfish Species Identification Experiment
   
• Recompression Experiments on Rougheye Rockfish with Barotrauma
   
• Groundfish Stock Assessments
   
• Estimation of Bycatch in the Halibut Fishery
   
• Workshop on Deep-Sea Coral Research in Alaska
   

Ecosystem Monitoring & Assessment Program

• Southeast Coastal Monitoring (SECM) Pink Salmon Harvest Forecast Models: Accurate for 2010 and Predicting a Strong Harvest for 2011
   

Fishery Ecology, Diet, & Zooplankton Program

• Residents at Little Port Walter Marine Station Receive Emergency Trauma Technician Training
   

  Fisheries Monitoring & Analysis Division

  Fisheries Monitoring & Analysis Division

• A Long Time Coming: North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program Restructure
   

  National Marine Mammal Laboratory

  National Marine Mammal Laboratory

Alaska Ecosystems Program

• First Winter Capture and Tracking of Adult Female Steller Sea Lions in Southeast Alaska
   

Cetacean Assessment & Ecology Program

• The Long and the Short of It: A Simple Photograph-based Approach for Discriminating between Free-ranging Long-finned and Short-finned Pilot Whales off the East Coast of the United States
   

Polar Ecosystems Program

• Completion of Endangered Species Act Status Reviews for Ringed and Bearded Seals
  
   

  Resource Assessment & Conservation Engineering Division

  Resource Assessment & Conservation Engineering Division

Midwater Assessment & Conservation Engineering Program

• Gulf of Alaska, Integrated Ecosystem Research Program (GOA IERP)
   

Recruitment Processes Program

• Gulf of Alaska, Integrated Ecosystem Research Program (GOA IERP)
   
• Climate and Ecosystems
   
• Ichthyoplankton Identification
   

Groundfish Assessment Program

• Fossil Fish Named After AFSC Scientist Jay Orr
   

Shellfish Assessment Program

• The Effects of Holding Space on Juvenile Red King Crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) Growth and Survival
   
• Canada-United States Bitter Crab Disease Project
   
• Gulf of Alaska Small-mesh Trawl Survey
   

  Resource Ecology & Fisheries Management Division

  Resource Ecology & Fisheries Management Division

Resource Ecology & Ecosystem Modeling Program

• DNA-based Identification of Stomach Contents
   
• Fish Stomach Collection and Lab Analysis
   
• Preliminary Results of the 2009 EBS Flatfish Essential Fish Habitat Study
   
• Trophic Level Patterns Indicated by Stomach Contents and Stable Istotope Analyses
   
• Seabird Investigations
   
• Outreach in the Pribilof Islands
   
• Lowell Wakefield 2010 Symposium
   
• Ecosystem Considerations for 2011
   
• New Eastern Bering Sea Ecosystem Assessment and Report Card
   

Economics & Social Sciences Research Program

• Bioeconomic Model for Estimating Maximum Economic Yield of North Pacific Crab Stocks
   
• Involving Communities to Better Understand the Role of North Pacific Fisheries
   
• Quantitative Measures of Risk Applied to North Pacific Commercial Fisheries
   
• Bioeconomic Assessment of Ocean Acidification on Bristol Bay Red King Crab
   

Status of Stocks & Multispecies Assessment Program

• Groundfish Stock Assessments for 2011: Fishery Quota Recommendations
   

Age & Growth Program

• Production Numbers
   

AFSC QUARTERLY REPORT ARCHIVES

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