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2010

• Humpback Whale Predation and the Case for Top-Down Control of Local Herring Populations in the Gulf of Alaska
  (2010, Oct-Dec)
   
• At-Sea Monitoring of Commercial North Pacific Groundfish Catches: A Range of Observer Sampling Challenges
  (2010, July-Sept)
   
• Regional Environmental Factors Affecting Bomb-Derived Radiocarbon Age Validation Studies
  (2010, Apr-June)
   
• Cooperative Research to Reduce the Effects of Bering Sea Flatfish Trawling on Seafloor Habitat and Crabs
  (2010, Jan-Mar)
   

2009

• Habitat Use and Seasonal Movements of Adult and Sub-Adult Bearded Seals
  (2009, Oct-Dec)
   
• Insights From a 12-Year Biophysical Time Series of Juvenile Pacific Salmon in Southeast Alaska: the Southeast Alaska Coastal Monitoring Project (SECM)
  (2009, July-Sept)
   
• Understanding Ecosystem Processes in the Bering Sea: First Year Field Highlights from the BEST-BSIERP Partnership
  (2009, Apr-June)
   
• Towards an Understanding of the Public's Attitudes and Preferences for Protecting Steller Sea Lions
  (2009, Jan-Mar)
   

2008

• Do Silent Ships See More Fish? Comparisons of Walleye Pollock Backscatter Recorded by a Conventional and a Noise-Reduced Research Vessel in Alaska
  (2008, Oct-Dec)
   
• Biodiversity and Evolutionary Empiricism: A Systemic Approach to Fisheries Management
  (2008, July-Sept)
   
• Research, Biology, and Management of Sharks and Grenadiers in Alaska
  (2008, Apr-June)
   
• Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division Redesigns Observer Sampling
  (2008, Jan-Mar)
   

2007

• Effects of Space and Scale in the Food Web Structure of the Aleutian Archipelago
  (2007, Oct-Dec)
   
• Bitter Crab Syndrome: A Major Player in the Global Theater of Marine Crustacean Disease
  (2007, July-Sept)
   
• The Dynamics of Hookworm Disease in Northern Fur Seals
  (2007, Apr-June)
   
• The Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS)
  (2007, Jan-Mar)
   

2006

• The Habitat and Ecological Processes Research Program
  (2006, Oct-Dec)
   
• Ecosystem Modeling for Fishery Sustainability: A Case Study for the Gulf of Alaska
  (2006, July-Sept)
   
• Ichthyoplankton Information System:  Taxonomy, Distribution, and Abundance of Early Life History Stages of Marine Fishes in the Northeast Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea
  (2006, Apr-June)
   
• Contrasting Western Steller Sea Lion and Northern Fur Seal Population Trends in Alaska
  (2006, Jan-Mar)
   

2005

• Seasonal Variation in Energy Allocation Strategies of Walleye Pollock
  (2005, Oct-Dec)
   
• New Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division Assumes the Role of the North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program
  (2005, July-Sept)
   
• Developing Ageing Criteria for Shortraker Rockfish
  (2005, Apr-June)
   
• Recent Contributions to the Knowledge of the Skates of Alaska
  (2005, Jan-Mar)
   

2004

• Comparing Harbor Seal Survey Methods in Glacial Fjords
  (2004, Oct-Dec)
   
• Domestication Issues in Alaska Chinook Salmon: Maturation Timing, Egg Size, and Fecundity of Hatchery Chinook Salmon and Wild Donor Stocks
  (2004, July-Sept)
   
• Fishing Communities of the North Pacific: Social Science Research at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center
  (2004, Apr-June)
   
• Reproductive Dynamics and Life History of Snow Crab in the Eastern Bering Sea
  (2004, Jan-Mar)
   

2003

• Surveying Killer Whale Abundance and Distribution in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands
  (2003, Oct-Dec)
   
• Research at the Auke Bay Laboratory on Benthic Habitat
  (2003, July-Sept)
   
• Food Web Comparisons in the Eastern and Western Bering Sea
  (2003, Apr-June)
   
• Understanding Fish Bycatch Discard And Escapee Mortality
  (2003, Jan-Mar)
   

2002

• Trends and Status of Harbor Seals in Washington State: 1978-90
  (2002, Oct-Dec)
   
• Origin of Juvenile Chum Salmon from Gulf of Alaska Coastal Waters, '01
  (2002, July-Sept)
   
• The Fishery Interaction Team: Investigating the Potential Impacts of Commercial Fishing on the Foraging Success of Endangered Steller Sea Lions
  (2002, Apr-June)
   
• Interactions Between Commercial Fishing and Walleye Pollock
  (2002, Jan-Mar)
   

2001

• Steller Sea Lion Survey on Kuril and Iony Islands, Russia
  (2001, Oct-Dec)
   
• The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill: How Much Oil Remains?
  (2001, July-Sep)
   
• Pacific Cod: The Ageing of a Difficult Species
  (2001, Apr-July)
   
• Identification and Systematics of Rockfishes (Sebastes) in the Northeast Pacific Ocean
  (2001, Jan-Mar)
   

2000

• The Beluga Whales in Cook Inlet
  (2000, Oct-Dec)
   
• Survival and Straying of Pink Salmon Using Recoveries of Coded-Wire Tags and Thermally-Induced Otolith Marks
  (2000, July-Sep)
   
• The Role of the North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program in the Community Development Quota Program
  (2000, Apr-June)
   
• Advances in At-Sea Electronics and Data Collection
  (2000, Jan-Mar)
   

1999

• Advancements in Alaska Harbor Seal Census Methodology
  (1999, Oct-Dec)
   
• New Sablefish Research at the Auke Bay Laboratory
  (1999, July-Sep)
   
• Economics and Management of the Alaskan Groundfish Fisheries- A New Data Collection Project
  (1999, Apr-June)
   
• Kodiak Laboratory Moves to New Research Facility
  (1999, Jan-Mar)
   

1998

• An Examination of Environmental Correlates of Pink Salmon Survival in Southeastern Alaska
  (1998, Oct-Dec)
   
• Steller Sea Lion Population Assessment
  (1998, July-Sep)
   
• Bering Sea Ecosystem Research: Planning, Coordination, and Communication
  (1998, Apr-June)
   
• National Marine Fisheries Service/Alaska Department of Fish and Game Trawl Comparison Study
  (1998, Jan-Mar)
   

1997

• A New Approach to Classifying the Central North Pacific Stock of Humpback Whales Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
  (1997, Oct-Dec)
   
• Genetic Population Structure of Rougheye Rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) Inferred From Allozyme Variation
  (1997, July-Sep)
   
• Getting to Know OSCURS, REFM’s Ocean Surface Current Simulator
  (1997, Apr-June)
   
• Midwater Fish Surveys at the AFSC
  (1997, Jan-Mar)
   

1996

• Growth Patterns of the Pacific White-sided Dolphin in the Central North Pacific Ocean
  (1996, Oct-Dec)
   
• The Precautionary Principle in North Pacific Groundfish Management
  (1996, July-Sep)
   
• Estimating Trawl Catchability
  (1996, Apr-June)
   
• The Steller Sea Lion: Two Discrete Stocks?
  (1996, Jan-Mar)
   

1995

• The Origins of Chum Salmon Bycatch in the 1994 Bering Sea Trawl Fishery for Walleye Pollock Determined by Genetic Stock Identification
  (1995, Oct-Dec)
   
• The Trophic Interactions Program: Improving Multispecies Models Using a Data-based Approach
  (1995, July-Sep)
   
• Behavior Plays a Key Role in Controlling Distribution and Survival in the Early Life Stages of Walleye Pollock
  (1995, Apr-June)
   
• The Role of Juvenile Walleye Pollock as Northern Fur Seal Prey in the Eastern Bering Sea
  (1995, Jan-Mar)
   

1994

• Investigations of Antarctic Living Marine Resources
  (1994, Oct-Dec)
   
• Radiometric Ageing – New Age Validation Technique Established in Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management Division
  (1994, July-Sep)
   
• Observation of Fish Behavior in Trawls: Finding Ways to Reduce Bycatch
  (1994, Apr-June)
   
• First Returns of Adult Sockeye Salmon From Hatchery-reared Age-0 (Underyearling) Smolts
  (1994, Jan-Mar)
   

1993

• Fundamental Changes to Fishery Management Regimes
  (1993, July-Sep)
   
• Size Decreases in Adult Chum Salmon
  (1993, Apr-June)
   
• Observations From a Submersible Shed New Light on Crab Behavior
  (1993, Jan-Mar)
   

1992

• The Blue Whales of the Southeastern North Pacific Ocean
  (1992, Oct-Dec)
   
• The Rockfish Working Group – An Overview
  (1992, July-Sep)
   
• Capabilities of Walleye Pollock Eggs, Larvae, and Juveniles to Respond to Environmental Factors and Determine Distribution
  (1992, Apr-June)
   
• The Feeding Cycle of Northern Fur Seals
  (1992, Jan-Mar)
   

1991

• ABL Scientists Study Glacier’s Threat to Yakutat Fisheries
  (1991, Apr-June)
   

1990

• A Day in the Life of a Squid Driftnet Observer
  (1990, Oct-Dec)
   
• Spawning Pollock Surveys in the Gulf of Alaska
  (1990, July-Sep)
   
• Migration Studies of Northern Fur Seals
  (1990, Apr-June)
   

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