2022 Alaska Fisheries Science Center Field Season

In 2022 the Alaska Fisheries Science Center will conduct research activities including vessel-based and aerial surveys. We do this to collect data and information to support marine resource management and conservation to meet our federal mandate under guiding U.S. laws. These laws include the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the U.S. Endangered Species Act, among others. 

All of these activities are conducted under strict operational protocols keeping our staff, research partners and local communities safe from the spread of COVID-19.   

Information about each planned survey will be added to this page.

Research Briefs

• Joint Canada-US International Seamount Survey

• 2022 Aleutian Islands Biennial Bottom Trawl Survey

• 2022 Harbor Porpoise Monitoring In Southeast Alaska

• 2022 Steller Sea Lion Aerial Survey In Aleutian Islands

• 2022 Vessel-based Studies Of Ice Associated Seals

• 2022 EcoFOCI Mooring Cruise And Hydrographic Survey

• 2022 Eastern Bering Sea Beluga Whale Aerial Abundance Survey

• 2022 Validation of Coral & Sponge Distribution Modeling in the Gulf of Alaska

• 2022 Northern Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey

• 2022 Gulf of Alaska Coral Settlement Plate Recovery and Deployment

• 2022 Eastern Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Survey

• 2022 Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Aerial Survey