Publications

This status review summarizes the biological information gathered for an Endangered Species Act (ESA) assessment of the status of the largetooth sawfish (Pristis perotteti).

NOAA Fisheries' biological opinion on the proposed research of marine mammals along the coasts of Washington and Oregon. This opinion considers the effects on endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat.

This analysis evaluates the potential economic impacts on directly regulated small entities accruing from the proposed action to implement Amendment 91 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area.

Analysis of regulatory amendments regarding "other species" categories in the groundfish fisheries of the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands.

Poster on database of recent sightings and historic reports of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska

NOAA Fisheries' evaluation of the proposed research activities and considers the effects on endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat.

Provides an overview of the observer program nationally, and includes information on regional accomplishments and budgets.

Analysis of a moratorium on the entry of new vessels into the groundfish and crab fisheries

Analysis of the economic impacts of temporarily relieving the existing delivery and processing requirements.

The Southeast Coastal Monitoring project (SECM) is a component of the NOAA Auke Bay Laboratories salmon research program which has sampled juvenile salmon and associated biophysical parameters in northern Southeast Alaska (SEAK) since 1997 utilizing the NOAA Ship John N. Cobb and chartered trawl vessels. Sampling juveniles as they migrate to the Gulf of Alaska, after high-mortality periods of freshwater incubation and early marine residency, provides information on year-class strength that can be used with associated environmental data to forecast abundance of the fish when they return as adults. Data from these annual surveys have been used to develop models that predicted SEAK pink salmon harvests within 16% of actual harvests for 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009. However, this forecast accuracy was not achieved in 2006, when pink salmon harvest was well below both the SECM forecast based on juvenile salmon abundance and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) forecast based on previous pink salmon harvest time series. Despite this overestimate, the 2006 SECM forecast accurately identified a decline in average pink salmon harvest. The ADF&G is now incorporating the SECM juvenile data into their annual harvest time series forecast.