Hatfield Marine Science Center
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The Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Fisheries
Behavioral Ecology Program is located at the Oregon State University's Hatfield
Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon. The Hatfield Marine Science
Center was created to serve the scientific needs of various organizations
and government agencies and includes the Oregon
State University building constructed in 1965 and the NOAA facilities
which were completed in 1981. NOAA and Oregon State University staff at the
Hatfield Center are currently located in two Federal government-owned buildings
which are managed by the Northwest
Fisheries Science Center.
The Fisheries Behavioral Ecology Program conducts laboratory research on the
behavioral responses of commercially important marine fishes to environmental
factors that are critical to controlling distribution and survival from egg
to adult. Research also focuses on defining the factors which affect postcapture
survival and mortality of fish that are caught as bycatch. The experimental
laboratories consist of more than 17,000 cubic feet of tank space housed in
over 18,000 square feet of wet laboratory space supplied with 500 gallons per
minute of high quality seawater, 200 gallons per minute of which can be chilled
to 3° C. Species of current interest include walleye pollock, sablefish,
and Pacific halibut.
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