In 2025 the Alaska Fisheries Science Center plans to conduct research 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. Our research briefs provide details on planned field research this year. Our program flyers provide a description of each program, a few of our key accomplishments in 2024 and a 2025 preview of planned research. Research Briefs are added several weeks prior to the start of surveys or field research so be sure to check back again for future updates.
Research Briefs
- Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Aerial Abundance Survey Research Brief 2025
- Aerial Survey of Ice Seals in the Bering, Chukchi, & Beaufort Seas
- Winter Acoustic-Trawl Pre-spawning Pollock Surveys in the Gulf of Alaska
- Aerial Surveys of Steller Sea Lions in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska
- Alaska Fisheries Science Center Longline Survey
- Gulf of Alaska Biennial Bottom Trawl Survey
- Annual Bottom Trawl Survey of the Eastern Bering Sea
- Long-term Monitoring of Humpback Whale Predation on Pacific Herring in Prince William Sound
- Bottom Trawl Survey of the Northern Bering Sea
- Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research (POWER) Survey
- Bowhead Abundance & Distribution Aerial Survey
Program Flyers
Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management Division
- Age and Growth
- Economic and Social Sciences Research
- Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling
- Status of Stocks and Multispecies Assessment
Marine Mammal Laboratory
Auke Bay Laboratories
- Marine Ecology and Stock Assessment
- Genetics
- Recruitment Energetics and Coastal Assessment
- Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment
Fisheries Monitoring Analysis Division
- Analytical Services
- Information Technology Services
- Field Offices
- Debriefing Services
- Observer Training and Gear
