Publications

Food-web models represent a synthesis of knowledge of these dependencies and are a platform for evaluating the consequences of change in small pelagic fish productivity.

Aerial Survey of Ice Seals Research Brief

This final 2025 Annual Deployment Plan (ADP) describes how the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will assign at-sea and shoreside fishery observers and electronic monitoring (EM) to vessels and processing plants engaged in halibut and groundfish fishing operations in the North Pacific.

This Annual Report provides information, analysis, and recommendations based on the deployment of observers and Electronic Monitoring (EM) systems by the North Pacific Observer Program (Observer Program) in the halibut and groundfish fisheries off Alaska during 2023.

Congratulations on being accepted into job training and welcome to the Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division’s North Pacific Observer Program!

The following species have not been confirmed in Alaskan waters or are rare enough to need further confirmation. For confirmation, you must return with a specimen or photographic documentation. Any species encountered out of range also requires confirmation, including all species not listed in the field guides.

The Fisheries Monitoring and Analysis Division’s North Pacific Observer Program collects, maintains, and distributes data for scientific, management, and regulatory compliance purposes in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands.

The Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) Road Map provides specific actions that will guide and enhance NOAA Fisheries’ efforts to implement the EBFM Policy over the next five years.

The Terms of Reference define the purpose and products of research track assessments. Terms of reference are made to provide guidance to the working groups.

These annual reports summarize records of human-caused mortalities and injuries and provide an assessment of injury severity of pinnipeds and cetaceans belonging to stocks that are included in the Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports (SARs). Each report considers a rolling 5-year window. Prior to 2023, annual reports were published as NOAA Technical Memorandums where records of human-caused mortality and injury of NMFS-managed Alaska marine mammal stocks were detailed in a table incorporated into the document. However, beginning in 2023 NMFS transitioned to publishing the report online as an AFSC Processed Report with an associated data file* (CSV) to increase efficiency in making the data available to users.