Alaska Sablefish Longline Survey Reports

Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) are a commercially important fish species in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Found along the upper continental slope, in Alaska they are caught primarily by longlines. Catches in the Alaskan EEZ have averaged 15,000 mt in recent years with an annual value of about $100 million.

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Long-time NOAA Fisheries collaborator, Vladimir Burkanov, discovered an albino fur seal on a recent research trip to the island of Tyuleny in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. Credit: Vladimir Burkanov.

Last updated by Alaska Fisheries Science Center on August 02, 2019

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