Four NOAA Fisheries Surveys to Collect Data Crucial to Sustainable Alaska Fisheries

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Four NOAA Fisheries Surveys to Collect Data Crucial to Sustainable Alaska Fisheries

Scientists from NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center will embark from Dutch Harbor May 28 on another busy survey season, off Alaska’s coast, collecting data needed for fisheries managers to determine sustainable fishery harvest levels. This year, they’ll be conducting three groundfish and crab bottom trawl surveys and one midwater acoustic-trawl survey. Groundfish and crab surveys […]

For Pollock Surveys in Alaska, Things Are Looking Up

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For Pollock Surveys in Alaska, Things Are Looking Up

Shelikof Strait, in the Gulf of Alaska, is an important spawning area for walleye pollock, the target of the largest—and one of the most valuable—fisheries in the nation. This year, a team of NOAA Fisheries scientists went there to turn their usual view of the fishery upside-down. Scientists have been conducting fish surveys in the […]

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