Research Activities for April - June 2002

FEATURE

• The Fishery Interaction Team:  Investigating the Potential Impacts of Commercial Fishing on the Foraging Success of Endangered Steller Sea Lions

AUKE BAY LABORATORY (ABL)

• Understanding the Contribution of Fishing Activity to Riverine Pollution
• Seasonal Increases in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons into a Small Alaskan Lake
• Spring Emigrant Salmonid Counts at Auke Creek Weir
• Use of Elemental Analysis in Stock Discrimination of Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon
• 2002 Sablefish Longline Survey
• Sablefish Sampling on Gulf of Alaska Seamounts in 2002
• Do Pacific Sleeper Sharks, Prey on Steller Sea Lions
• Southeast Alaska Juvenile Sablefish Studies
• Southeast Alaska Sea Lion Prey Study
• Southeast Alaska Estuarine Habitat Survey

NATIONAL MARINE MAMMAL LABORATORY (NMML)

• Aerial Surveys of Beluga Whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska, June 2002
• Evaluation of Potential Harbor Seal Study Sites
• Resight Surveys for Branded Steller Sea Lions in Gulf of Alaska and Eastern Aleutian Islands
• Aerial Survey of Western Stock of Steller Sea Lions in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands
• Field Camps for Steller Sea Lions Studies in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands

RESOURCE ASSESSMENT & CONSERVATION ENGINEERING (RACE) DIVISION

• Groundfish Assessment:
      - Annual Eastern Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey
      - Biennial Eastern Bering Sea Upper Continental Slope Bottom Trawl Survey
      - Biennial Aleutian Islands Bottom Trawl Survey
• Midwater Assessment and Conservation Engineering (MACE): Research Cruise

RESOURCE ECOLOGY & FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (REFM) DIVISION

• Economic and Social Sciences Program:
      - Regulatory Analysis of North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program Regulations
      - Cooperative Agreement with PSMFC
      - Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization
• U.S. North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program:
• Age and Growth Program
• Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessment Program:
      - Pacific Cod Fisheries Interaction Study Planned for 2003
      - SSC-PFMC Appointment
• Resource Ecology and Ecosystems Modeling Program