Research cruises by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center occasionally encounter rare fish, marine mammal, and invertebrate species. Documentation or capture of these species provides a unique opportunity to increase our knowledge of their morpholology, distribution, and habitat.  Many of these occurrences are presumably associated with the unusually warm oceanographic conditions in the North Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Alaska. The links below lead to information on some of the new or unusual species documented by AFSC scientists.

• Morphology of Bigmouth Manefish From the Eastern North Pacific Ocean


• Fisheries Monitoring & Analysis (FMA) Division Field Operations (January-March 2006)


• Groundfish Systematics:  Skates, Snailfishes, and Eelpouts


• Recent Contributions to the Knowledge of the Skates of Alaska


• Coral Gardens of the Aleutians Underwater Video


• Unusual Observations of Fish and Invertebrates From the Gulf of Alaska, 2004-05


• Detecting Right Whales Using Passive Acoustics in SE Bering Sea