Marine Salmon Interactions (MSI)
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Alaskan seiner assisting with chinook salmon broodstock collection at LPW |
MSI Program Manager:
Bill Heard
Auke Bay Laboratories
Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute
17109 Pt Lena Loop Rd
Juneau AK 99801
(907) 789-6003
Bill.Heard@noaa.gov
The ABL Marine Salmon Interactions (MSI) program conducts research on Northeast Pacific salmonid ecosystems, including experimental approaches, primarily in the marine environment. The program consist of two primary units, Early Ocean Salmon (EOS) and Stock-Enhancement Aquaculture (SEA).
Program research is designed and conducted to help meet mission goals and objectives in NOAA’s Strategic Plan, especially Mission Goal 1: "Protect, Restore, and Manage the Use of Coastal and Oceanic Resources Through Ecosystem-Based Management". Objectives under this goal that relate closely to MSI research activities are:
- Recover protected species
- Rebuild and maintain sustainable fisheries
Priority research activities by MSI include:
- Juvenile salmon, associated marine species, and ecosystems
- Monitoring long-term biophysical parameters
- Hatchery-wild stock interactions
- Partnering with agency groups, industry, and other resource users
- Life histories, population dynamics modeling
- Regional, national, and international salmon accords and treaties
Although MSI research may involve eight species of North American salmonids (pink, chum, sockeye, coho, and chinook salmon, steelhead, cutthroat trout, and Dolly Varden) most detailed studies include pink, chum, coho, and chinook salmon, and steelhead.
Featured Research, Publications, Posters, Reports, and Activities
- Unanticipated departures from breeding designs can be detected using microsatellite DNA parentage analyses.
GRAY, A. K., J. J. JOYCE, and A. C. WERTHEIMER.
2008. Unanticipated departures from breeding designs can be detected using microsatellite DNA parentage analyses. Aquaculture 280:71-75.
- Climate warming causes phenological shift in pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, behavior at Auke Creek, Alaska.
TAYLOR, S. G.
2008. Climate warming causes phenological shift in pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, behavior at Auke Creek, Alaska. Global Change Biol. 14:229-235.
- Juvenile Quillback Rockfish Habitat Utilization
By: PATRICK MALECHA
Conference: Western Groundfish Conference (15th), Santa Cruz, CA., Feb 2008
(2008 poster, .pdf, 152KB) Online.
- The Importance of Reservoirs in the Western U.S. for the Recovery of Endangered Populations of Anadromous Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
By: FRANK THROWER, JOHN JOYCE, ADRIAN CELEWYCZ, PATRICK MALECHA
Conference: International Reservoir Symposium (4th), Atlanta, GA, June 2007
(2007 poster, .pdf, 146KB) Online.
See the publications and posters databases for additional listings.
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