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Alaska Longline Survey

By Grant Voirol | NOAA-Alaska Fisheries Science Center on Aug 6, 2018   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center  

Alaska Longline Survey

So how does longlining work? I wasn’t sure myself before I got on the boat other than guessing that there was probably a line and it was probably pretty long. Turns out I was right. The line used is miles long and sectioned into groups of hooks called “skates.” In each skate there are 45 […]

Survey Shows Substantial Drop in Gulf of Alaska Cod Stocks

By Fishermen's News Online on Oct 15, 2017   Featured, Fishermen's News Online  

Survey Shows Substantial Drop in Gulf of Alaska Cod Stocks

Results of 2017 surveys and preliminary modeling for the 2018 Pacific cod stock assessment show a 71 percent reduction in the Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl survey Pacific cod biomass estimate from 2015 to 2017. The news came to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee and Advisory Panel on October 3 […]

Norton Sound Beluga Whale Survey to be Conducted for First Time in Nearly 20 years

By Alaska Fisheries Science Center on Jun 16, 2017   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Norton Sound Beluga Whale Survey to be Conducted for First Time in Nearly 20 years

NOAA Fisheries’ Alaska Fisheries Science Center (Marine Mammal Laboratory), in collaboration with the Alaska Beluga Whale Committee and the North Slope Borough, will be conducting aerial surveys for the Eastern Bering Sea stock of belugas in Norton Sound and near the Yukon River Delta, Alaska. Through the surveys, NOAA hopes to derive an updated population […]

Mischievous Snailfish and Other Mysteries of the Deep

By Christine Baier | NOAA on Jun 14, 2016   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Mischievous Snailfish and Other Mysteries of the Deep

Right now, scientists from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center are at sea collecting information crucial to keeping Alaska fisheries sustainable. The data they collect during yearly stock assessment surveys is used to set quotas for the familiar species that support some of world’s largest fisheries. But sometimes they find something no one has seen before. […]

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