U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

INTRODUCTION TO CRUISE REPORT
M/V QUILLBACK CRUISE Q-1-97-GB

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DUNGENESS CRAB AND HALIBUT HABITATS
IN GLACIER BAY, ALASKA

October 15 through October 30, 1997
Glacier Bay, Alaska

Guy R. Cochrane (1), Paul R. Carlson (1), Jane F. Denny (2), Michael E. Boyle (1),
S. James Taggart (3), and Philip N. Hooge (3)

Open-File Report 98-791

1998

1. U.S. Geological Survey, MS 999, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025
2. U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA 02543
3. U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Biological Science Center, Glacier Bay Field Station, P.O. Box 140, Gustavus, AK.

This report contains a description of operations and data collected on a sidescan cruise in Glacier Bay in 1997. A preliminary interpretation of data from a portion of the data set is presented.