Alaska Fisheries Science Center Quarterly Report Index

Information about the Center's research activities and results with in-depth feature articles are provided in the Quarterly Report.  This multi-page index links to research articles and division report lisitings, grouped by year.  Quarterly issues are indicated for each listing.  A listing may appear under multiple categories.

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Habitat - see also Environmental monitoring,    Habitat & Ecological Processes Research (HEPR),
                            Oil spill / Hydrocarbons,    Survey,     Trawl, (gear, fishing, vessel) effects / Industry impacts

• Southeast Alaska: Oceanographic Habitats and Linkages  (Jan-Mar 2009)
   
• Diel Use of Nearshore Habitats by Fishes in Late Summer in Prince William Sound, Alaska  (Oct-Dec 2008)
• Essential Fish Habitat Proposals Reviewed  (Oct-Dec 2008)
   
• Eastern Bering Sea Slope Habitat Studies  (Oct-Dec 2007)
• Habitat Data Workshop  (HEPR,  July-Sept 2007)
• Habitat Scientist Participates in Long-Range Sonar Acceptance Testing  (Oct-Dec 2007)
• Habitat Scientists Present at Two Conferences - "Marine Habitat Mapping Technology Workshop for Alaska" and "U.S. Hydro 2007 Conference"  (Apr-June 2007)
• Passive Acoustics to Study Spawning Essential Fish Habitat  (Jan-Mar 2007)
   
• Aerial Imagery and Mapping of Alaska's Coastline  (July-Sept 2006)
• FISHPAC Habitat Mapping Experiment on the NOAA Ship Fairweather  (July-Sept 2006)
• FISHPAC Preintegration Exercise on NOAA Ship Fairweather  (Jan-Mar 2006)
• FISHPAC Project Delivers Bathymetry Data for Nautical Chart Updates  (Oct-Dec 2006)
• Nearshore Fishes of Alaska: an Online Atlas  (July-Sept 2006)
   
• Fiber Optic Habitat-Mapping System Tested  (Jan-Mar 2005)
• Fish Assemblages Near Barrow, Alaska  (July-Sept 2005)
• Free-Fall Cone Penetrometer Tested Near Halifax  (Oct-Dec 2005)
• Manned Submersible Studies in the Gulf of Alaska  (July-Sept 2005)
• Southeast Alaska Estuarine Habitat Survey  (July-Sept 2005)
   
• Deep-Sea Coral Distribution and Habitat in the Aleutian Islands  (July-Sept 2004)
• Partnerships Are Key to the Nutritional Ecology Laboratory  (Apr-June 2004)
• Southeast Alaska Estuarine Habitat Surveys  (Jan-Mar 2004)
   
• Physical Characteristics and Ichthyofauna of Eelgrass Meadows in Southeastern Alaska: Establishing Long-term Monitoring Sites  (Oct-Dec 2003)
• Research at the Auke Bay Laboratory on Benthic Habitat  (Feature, July-Sept 2003)
   
• Categorizing (rockfish) Habitat  (Western Groundfish Conference,  Jan-Mar 2002)
• Distribution, Habitat, and Behavior of Rockfish in Nearshore Waters of Southeastern Alaska  (Jan-Mar 2002)
• Mapping of Habitat of Major Fishing Grounds  (July-Sept 2002)
• Southeast Alaska Coastal Monitoring  (July-Sept 2002)
• Southeast Alaska Estuarine Habitat Survey  (Apr-June 2002)
• Symposium on Effects of Fishing Activities on Benthic Habitats  (Oct-Dec 2002)
• Video Documents Aleutian Islands Coral and Sponge Habitat  (Oct-Dec 2002)
   
• 2001 Winter Bottom Trawl Surveys of Steller Sea Lion Critical Habitat in the Southeastern Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska  (Apr-June 2001)
• Estuarine Wetland Survey  (Apr-June 2001)
• Habitat Investigations Staff Participate in AFS Chapter Meeting  (Oct-Dec 2001)
• Habitat Use and Early Marine Ecology of Juvenile Salmon Studied  (July-Sept 2001)
• Surveys of Habitat Areas of Particular Concern  (Apr-June 2001)
   
• Army Corps of Engineers Proposes Aquatic Habitat Restoration for Duck Creek  (Apr-June 2000)
• Distribution and Habitat of Rockfish in Nearshore Waters of Southeast Alaska  (July-Sept 2000)
• Economic Analysis of RPAs to Protect Sea Lions and Their Habitat  (Oct-Dec 2000)
• Life-History Consequences of Oil Pollution in Fish Natal Habitat  (Jan-Mar 2000)
• Residence, Diet, Growth, And Condition of Juvenile Rockfish in Subtidal Vegetated Habitats of Southeast Alaska  (July-Sept 2000)
   
• Duck Creek Selected as Showcase Watershed  (Apr-June 1999)
• Effect of Photoperiod on Overwinter Growth of Underyearling Sockeye Salmon in Seawater  (Habitat Investigations,  Apr-June 1999)
• Fish Use of Eelgrass and Kelp Habitats  (July-Sept 1999)
• Habitat Areas of Particular Concern  (July-Sept 1999)
• Identification and Characterization of Atka Mackerel Reproductive Habitat  (July-Sept 1999)
• Residence Time of Juvenile Rockfish in Eelgrass / Kelp Habitats  (July-Sept 1999)
• Restoration Projects Proposed for Duck Creek  (Apr-June 1999)
• ROV Observations of Essential Fish Habitat in Southeast Alaska  (July-Sept 1999)
   
• Duck Creek Salmon Habitat Restoration Project  (Jan-Mar 1998)
• Eelgrass: Essential Fish Habitat in Southeast Alaska  (July-Sept 1998)
• Essential Fish Habitat Studies  (Jan-Mar 1998)
• Feasibility Study of Using a Single Beam Seabed Classification System to Identify and Quantify Slope Rockfish Habitats in the Gulf of Alaska  (July-Sept 1998)
• New Methods for Assessing Nearshore Essential Fish Habitat  (July-Sept 1998)
   
• Recovery of Pink Salmon Spawning Habitat after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  (Oct-Dec 1997)

Habitat & Ecological Processes Research (HEPR) - see also Ecology and ecosystems modeling,      Habitat

• The Habitat and Ecological Processes Research Program  (Feature, Oct-Dec 2006)
• Essential Fish Habitat Workshop  (HEPR,  July-Sept 2006)
• Loss of Sea Ice Workshop  (HEPR,  July-Sept 2006)
• Loss of Sea Ice Workshop  (HEPR,  Apr-June 2006)

Hair crab - Crab, hair

Hake - see Pacific whiting

Halibut

• Demand for Halibut Sport Fishing Trips in Alaska  (July-Sept 2008)
• Early Life History of Greenland Halibut in the Eastern Bering Sea  (July-Sept 2008)
   
• Halibut Sport Fishing Survey Data Collection Completed  (Apr-June 2007)
• Halibut Sport Fishing Survey Update  (Jan-Mar 2007)
• Gulf of Alaska Halibut IFQ and Small Remote Fishing Communities  (Jan-Mar 2006)
• The Demand for Halibut Sport Fishing Trips in Alaska  (July-Sept 2006)
   
• Halibut Sport Fishing Survey  (July-Sept 2005)
• Halibut Sport Fishing Survey  (Apr-June 2005)
   
• Alaska Halibut Charter Boat Operator Economic Survey  (Apr-June 2001)
• Alaska Halibut Charter Boat Operator Survey  (Oct-Dec 2001)
• Testing of Halibut Excluders for Cod Trawls  (MACE,  Apr-June 2001)
   
• Halibut Excluder for Cod Trawlers  (MACE,  July-Sept 2000)
• Tests of Halibut Excluders  (MACE,  Apr-June 2000)
   
• Tests of Flexible Halibut Excluders for Sole Fisheries  (July-Sept 1999)
   
• Fundamental Changes to Fishery Management Regimes  (Feature, July-Sept 1993)

Harbor porpoise - see Porpoise, harbor

Harbor seal - see Seal, harbor

Herring - see Pacific herring

Humpback whale - see Whale, humpback

Hydrocarbons - see Oil spill / Hydrocarbons

Ice seal - see Seal, ice

Ichthyoplankton - see Plankton

International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)

• Integration of Environmental Information in Fisheries Management Advice  (Apr-June 2007)
   
• Fisheries Acoustics  Science and Technology and Fishing Technology and Fish Behavior Working Group Meetings  (Apr-June 2001)
   
• Ecosystem Considerations in Fisheries Management: Linking Ecosystem Management Goals with Ecosystem Research  (Jan-Mar 1999)
• ICES Symposium  (FOCI,  July-Sept 1999)

Invertebrate

• Tag Retention and Effects of Tagging on Movement of the Giant Red Sea Cucumber  (Jan-Mar 2009)
   
• Unusual Observations of Fish and Invertebrates From the Gulf of Alaska, 2004-05  (July-Sept 2005)
   
• Bogoslof Island Mapping and Colonization  (July-Sept 2004)
   
• Unusual Invertebrates Added to ABL Reference Collection  (Jan-Mar 2001)
   
• Green Sea Urchin Growth Rates Studied  (Jan-Mar 1999)
   
• ABL Reference Collection - specimens   (Jan-Mar 1998)

Killer whale - see Whale, killer

King crab - see Crab, king

Kodiak

• Kodiak Laboratory at ComFish Alaska  (Jan-Mar 2008)
• The Kodiak Laboratory Dive Program  (Apr-June 2008)
   
• Kodiak Fisheries Research Center Seawater Facility  (Oct-Dec 2007)
   
• New Kodiak Laboratory Director - Dr. Robert Foy  (Apr-June 2007)
   
• Kodiak Laboratory Moves to New Research Facility  (Feature, Jan-Mar 1999)
   
• Move to New Kodiak Fisheries Research Center  (Oct-Dec 1998)

Lice - see Sea lice

Little Port Walter

• Record Snowfall at Little Port Walter  (Apr-June 2007)
   
• Little Port Walter Field Station Headquarters Building Exterior Renovation  (Oct-Dec 2001)

Longline Survey - see Sablefish / Longline survey

Loss of Sea Ice - see Sea ice / Loss of Sea Ice

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Mackerel - see Atka mackerel

Marine mammal - see also Survey

• FIT and SSMA Personnel Lead Winter Survey in the Central Aleutian Islands  (Jan-Mar 2008)
   
• Workshops to Identify Critical Information Gaps About Marine Mammals in Areas of Interest to the Oil/Gas Industry  (Oct-Dec 2006)
   
• Meeting of Mexican Marine Mammal Society  (Apr-June 2004)
   
• Marine Mammal Surveys in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas  (July-Sept 2003)
• Workshop on Odontocete Capture and Handling Techniques  (Oct-Dec 2003)
   
• Impacts of Oil and Gas Industry on Marine Mammals in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea  (Oct-Dec 2000)
   
• assessing the status, trends, and ecological impact of marine mammals in Washington waters  (California Current Ecosystems,  Oct-Dec 1999)
• Low Frequency Active (LFA) Noise and Marine Mammals  (Oct-Dec 1999)
   
• Comanagement of Marine Mammal Subsistence Use  (Jan-Mar 1998)
• Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports Revised  (Jan-Mar 1998)
• The 13th Biennial Meeting of Society for Marine Mammalogy  (Oct-Dec 1999)

Midwater assessment / Conservation engineering - see also Survey

• Acoustic Surveys in Ice-Covered Areas of the Eastern Bering Sea  (MACE,  Apr-June 2007)
• Eastern Bering Sea Acoustic-trawl Survey  (MACE,  Apr-June 2007)
• MACE Program Tests New Multibeam Sonar  (MACE,  Oct-Dec 2007)
   
• Development and Evaluation of Trawl Groundgear Modifications to Reduce Damage to Living Structure in Soft Bottom Areas  (Apr-June 2006)
   
• Acoustic Data Collection Aboard Commercial Fishing Vessels  (Apr-June 2005)
• Conservation Engineering - salmon excluders  (MACE,  Jan-Mar 2005)
   
• Simrad EK/ER60 acoustic system user meeting  (MACE,  Oct-Dec 2004)
   
• Fisheries Scientific Computer System Users Conference  (MACE,  Oct-Dec 2003)
• GIS Visualization of Acoustic Survey Data  (MACE,  Oct-Dec 2003)
• Winter Surveys  (MACE,  Jan-Mar 2003)
   
• Bering Sea - echo integration-trawl (EIT) survey  (MACE,  Jan-Mar 2002)
• testing the Fisheries Scientific Computer System (FSCS) and an acoustic communication link system  (Oct-Dec 2002)
   
• Eastern Bering Sea and Bogoslof Island Survey  (Jan-Mar 2001)
• Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI) - bottom trawl sampling  in the GOA to collect ripe adult arrowtooth flounder and deploy deep bongo plankton tows to collect their eggs  (MACE,  Jan-Mar 2001)
• Gulf of Alska Survey  (MACE,  Jan-Mar 2001)
   
• Bering Sea Survey  (MACE,  July-Sept 2000)
• Gulf of Alaska Survey  (MACE,  July-Sept 2000)
• Impact of Transducer Motion on Echo Integration  (Oct-Dec 2000)
   
• Research Cruise - 8th triennial echo integration-trawl (EIT) survey  (MACE,  July-Sept 1998)
   
• Midwater Fish Surveys at the AFSC  (Feature, Jan-Mar 1997)

Minke whale - see Whale, minke

Molecular ecology

• AFSC Molecular Ecology Research Laboratory  (Apr-June 2008)

Mussel

• Mussel Physiology as Sewage Bioindicator  (July-Sept 2003)
   
• Mussel Population Response to Decline in Predation Intensity After Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  (Jan-Mar 2001)
   
• Comparison of Schnute Growth Parameters for the Mussel, Mytilus trossulus  (Oct-Dec 1998)

National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) Division reports

North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) - see also Ecology and ecosystems modeling

• 2008 PICES Workshop on Climate Scenarios for Ecosystem Modeling (II)  (Oct-Dec 2008)
   
• International Collaborations - workshop for connecting climate forcing to marine ecosystems  (Apr-June 2007)
   
• North Pacific Marine Science Organization 15th Annual Meeting  (Oct-Dec 2006)
• PICES Workshop on Ecological Indicators for the North Pacific  (Apr-June 2006)
   
• PICES Working Group Meeting  (Jan-Mar 2004)
   
• PICES Ecosystem Status Report Workshop  (July-Sept 2003)
   
• North Pacific Basin Models  (Jan-Mar 2001)
• Scientific Activities of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) in 2001  (Oct-Dec 2001)
   
• PICES Science 2000 - annual meeting  (REEM,  Oct-Dec 2000)
   
• PICES Science: 1999 - annual meeting  (Resource Ecology and Ecosystems Program,  Oct-Dec 1999)
   
• BASS Task Team  (Task Team Activities of 1998 and Plans for 1999,  Oct-Dec 1998)
• Climate Change and Carrying Capacity Program:  1998 Overview  (Oct-Dec 1998)
• MODEL Task Team  (Task Team Activities of 1998 and Plans for 1999,  Oct-Dec 1998)
• MONITOR Task Team  (Task Team Activities of 1998 and Plans for 1999,  Oct-Dec 1998)
• PICES Annual Meeting  (Oct-Dec 1998)
• REX Task Team  (Task Team Activities of 1998 and Plans for 1999,  Oct-Dec 1998)

Northern fur seal - see Seal, northern fur

Northern rockfish - see Rockfish, northern

Observer - see Groundfish observer

Ocean acidification - see also Environmental monitoring

• AFSC Ocean Acidification Research Plan Published  (July-Sept 2008)
   
• Blue King Crab Ocean Acidification Research  (Apr-June 2007)

Observer - see Groundfish observer,    FMA Division reports

Ocean Surface Current Simulator (OSCURS) - see also Environmental monitoring

• OSCURS Model  (Jan-Mar 2002)
   
• OSCURS Model  (Apr-June 2001)
• Research on Incorporating Environmental Data Within Stock Assessments: Bering Sea Pollock  (Oct-Dec 2001)
   
• OSCURS Update  (July-Sept 1999)
   
• Getting to Know OSCURS, REFM’s Ocean Surface Current Simulator  (Feature, Apr-June 1997)

Octopus

• BSAI Other Species - groundfish stock assessments  (Oct-Dec 2005)
   
• BSAI Squid and Other Species Complex  (2003 Stock Assessment Summary,  Oct-Dec 2003)
   
• BSAI Squid and Other Species Complex  (2002 Stock Assessment Summary,  Oct-Dec 2002)
   
• BSAI Squid and Other Species  (1999 Stock Assesment Summary,  Oct-Dec 1999)
• GOA Other Species  (1999 Stock Assessment Summary,  Oct-Dec 1999)

Oil spill / Hydrocarbons - see also Pollution / Pollutants / Contaminants,    Survey

• Cardiac Arrhythmia Is the Primary Response of Embryonic Pacific Herring Exposed to Crude Oil during Weathering  (Jan-Mar 2009)
   
• Selendang Ayu Oil Risk to Early Life Stage Salmon  (Jan-Mar 2006)
   
• Hydrocarbons and Fisheries Habitat in Berners Bay, Alaska:  Long-term Monitoring Associated with the Kensington Gold Mine  (Jan-Mar 2005)
• Innovative Passive Samplers Assess Source and Origin of Hydrocarbons  (Oct-Dec 2005)
   
• Mechanism for Transport of Oil-Contaminated Groundwater Into Pink Salmon Redds  (July-Sept 2002)
• Seasonal Increases in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Auke Lake  (Jan-Mar 2002)
• Seasonal Increases in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons into a Small Alaskan Lake  (Apr-June 2002)
   
• Evaluation of Oil in the Intertidal Zone of Prince William Sound From the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  (Jan-Mar 2001)
• Mussel Population Response to Decline in Predation Intensity After Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  (Jan-Mar 2001)
• The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: How Much Oil Remains?  (Feature, July-Sept 2001)
   
• Dispersant Effectiveness Testing Begins at ABL  (Apr-June 2000)
• Life-History Consequences of Oil Pollution in Fish Natal Habitat  (Jan-Mar 2000)
• Oil Discharge From Abandoned Storage Tank  (Oct-Dec 2000)
   
• ABL Research Redefines Oil Toxicity Paradigms About Oil and Fish  (Jan-Mar 1999)
• Evidence and Consequences of Persistent Oil in Pink Salmon Streams  (Oct-Dec 1999)
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Studies Continue  (Apr-June 1999)
• Green Sea Urchin Growth Rates Studied  (Jan-Mar 1999)
• New (Exxon Valdez oil spill research) Web Page  (Apr-Sept 1999)
• Science Symposium Marks Tenth Anniversary of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  (Jan-Mar 1999)
   
• Exxon Valdez Restoration Studies Continue  (July-Sept 1998)
• Intragravel Exposure of Pink Salmon Embryos to Crude Oil  (Apr-June 1998)
• Kuroshima Oil Spill Response  (Apr-June 1998)
• Low-level Exposure of Pacific Herring Eggs to Weathered Crude Oil  (Apr-June 1998)
• Natural Hydrocarbon Background in Prince William Sound  (July-Sept 1998)
   
• Recovery of Pink Salmon Spawning Habitat after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill  (Oct-Dec 1997)
• Use of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbon Weathering Model to Identify Exxon Valdez Oil in Sediments and Tissues  (Oct-Dec 1997)

Otolith - see also Ageing

• Tree Rings and Fish Otoliths  (Jan-Mar 2008)
   
• Oldest and Biggest Rockfish?  (Jan-Mar 2007)
   
• International Otolith Symposium  (July-Sept 2004)
• NMFS Scientists Attend Third International Otolith Symposium  (July-Sept 2004)
   
• ABL Sablefish Tag Recovery Program Provides Data and Otoliths for Young and Old Fish  (Jan-Mar 2002)
   
• Otolith Marking and Pink and Chum Salmon Workshops  (Jan-Mar 2001)
   
• Sablefish - vessel logbooks, otoliths  (Groundfish Stock Assessment and Related Activities,  Jan-Mar 2000)
• Survival and Straying of Pink Salmon Using Recoveries of Coded-Wire Tags and Thermally-Induced Otolith Marks  (Feature, July-Sept 2000)
   
• Survival and Straying of Pink Salmon Measured Using Recoveries of Coded-Wire Tags and Thermally-Induced Otolith Marks  (Jan-Mar 1999)
   
• Otolith-Marked Salmon Caught in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea  (July-Sept 1998)

Outreach - see Staff / Activities / Awards / Events / Outreach / Education

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