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Shellfish Assessment Program
Shellfish Assesssment biologists conduct a wide range of research on various fish, crab, and shellfish
species native to Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Arctic Sea and Beaufort Sea waters, Alaska. Program research efforts
are coordinated between two facilities: The AFSC's Kodiak
Laboratory at the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center in Kodiak, Alaska and the
NOAA Western Regional Center in Seattle, Washington.
A significant focus of Shellfish Assessment scientists at the Kodiak Laboratory is the annual crab/groundfish
surveys, which assess the distribution and abundance of various commercially important crab and groundfish
resources in the eastern Bering Sea. Shellfish Assessment scientists work closely with scientists from the
RACE Groundfish Assessment
Program to collect data which are used to both aid in the fishing industry in locating productive fishing
grounds and help Crab Fisheries
Management regulate takes to improve viability of future stocks.
The Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) crab scientists
in Kodiak, Alaska and Seattle, Washington, have worked cooperatively with the
University of Alaska,
Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G), and other
agencies to assess and manage crab stocks in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and the Arctic Fishery Management
Plan regions.
The AFSC and the Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation
(BSFRF) have been working cooperatively on research relative to Bering Sea king, snow, and southern Tanner crab
surveys, biology, and assessment since 2004. The AFSC and the newly formed Aleutian King Crab Research Foundation
(AKCRF) began working cooperatively in 2013.
These cooperative projects have focused on the evaluation of alternative survey methodology for Bristol Bay red
king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus); the experimental determination of the trawl efficiency of the
AFSC’s Bering Sea survey trawl; the tagging of both snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) and red king crab to
determine movements of these stocks within the survey area; the assessment of red king crab in the nearshore
waters of Bristol Bay; the estimate of snow crab, southern Tanner crab (Chionoecetes bairdi) and golden
king crab (Lithodes aequispinus) handling mortality; and the determination of snow crab and southern
Tanner crab growth increments in the field and in the laboratory.
In addition, a variety of other major activities take place both in the field and laboratory:
Recent Publications, Poster Presentations, Reports & Activities |
- DALY B. J., C. E. ARMISTEAD, and R. J. FOY.
2016. The 2016 eastern Bering Sea continental shelf bottom trawl survey: Results for commercial crab. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-327, 167 p. (.pdf, 26 MB) Online.
- PARTLOW, M., and E. MUNK.
2016. Saffron cod (Eleginus gracilis) in North Pacific archaeology. Alaska J. Anthropol. 13:19-34.
- LONG, W. C., and S. B. Van SANT.
2016. Embryo development in golden king crab (Lithodes aequispinus). Fish. Bull., U.S. 114:67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.7755/FB.114.1.6. Online.
- LONG, W. C.
2016. A new quantitative model of multiple transitions between discrete stages, applied to the development of crustacean larvae. Fish. Bull., U.S. 114:58–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7755/FB.114.1.5 Online.
- Decreased pH Changes Juvenile Blue King Crab Morphology and Decreases Growth and Survival
By: WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER LONG, SCOTT B. Van SANT, KATHERINE M. SWINEY, ROBERT J. FOY Conference: Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, AK, Jan 2016 (2016 poster, .pdf, 1.16 MB) Online. - A Biophysical Modeling Approach to Understanding Red King Crab Larval Drift in Bristol Bay, Alaska
By: BENJAMIN DALY, CAROLINA PARADA, SARAH HINCKLEY, DAVID ARMSTRONG, AL HERMANN, TIMOTHY LOHER Conference: Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, AK, Jan 2016 (2016 poster, .pdf, 1.28 MB) Online.
See the poster and
publications databases for additional
listings.
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