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Young Pollock Survival Better than Expected During Recent Bering Sea Warm Phase

By Christine Baier | NOAA on Jun 30, 2017   At Sea, Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Young Pollock Survival Better than Expected During Recent Bering Sea Warm Phase

In 2014 the Bering Sea warmed, raising concerns that pollock populations would plummet as they did in the previous warm phase of 2001-2005. But a new study suggests that this time young pollock had alternative resources that weren’t available during the last warming phase to help buffer ill effects of warming. With 2017 showing signs of cooling, […]

New Information on How Long some Rockfish Live and How Often they Spawn

By Christine Baier | NOAA on May 22, 2017   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

New Information on How Long some Rockfish Live and How Often they Spawn

Some things just get better with age. Like rockfish mothers. A rockfish might not start spawning until she is 25 years old. As she gets older she produces more, and more robust, young. She continues to produce them over many years, into advanced age – which for some rockfish means 100 or 200 years. That […]

Sea Lions Remember Prey Hotspots to Maximize Hunting efficiency

By Christine Baier | NOAA on May 19, 2017   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Sea Lions Remember Prey Hotspots to Maximize Hunting efficiency

When you forage for food, you need hunt no further than your corner restaurant. When a sea lion forages for food, it could exhaust its time and energy and leave its young to starve while searching the ocean with little chance of success—if it didn’t know where to look. NOAA Fisheries scientist Mike Sigler at […]

First Observations of Fine-Scale Juvenile Sablefish Movements in the Wild

By Christine Baier | NOAA on Apr 27, 2017   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

First Observations of Fine-Scale Juvenile Sablefish Movements in the Wild

Sablefish, butterfish, black cod – by any name, people call this fish delicious. Its delicate texture, buttery flavor and rich omega-3 content add up to a high value fishery: while sablefish make up a small portion of commercial catch by volume, their high price generates a lot of income for Alaska’s seafood industry—a big economic […]

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