Publications

Published Date: 2004

NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-25

Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), including the Environmental Assessment (EA), on a Community Development Quota (CDQ) final rule to modify the management of the "other species" Community Development Quota reserve.

Analysis of the costs and benefits of allowing processors receiving fish for the Prohibited Species Donation Program to convert processing byproducts (e.g., inedible heads and guts from salmon and Pacific halibut) into fish meal, oil, or bone meal.

This study investigates whether Steller sea lion declines in the early 1980s were associated with severely low juvenile survivorship, whereas declines in the 1990s were associated with disproportionately low fecundity.

On September 1, 2003, the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) completed the twenty-fourth annual longline survey of Alaska sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) resources of the upper continental slope (Figure 1). This survey was designed to continue the time series (1979-94) of the Gulf of Alaska portion of the Japan-U.S. cooperative longline survey that was discontinued after 1994. The NMFS has surveyed the Gulf of Alaska annually since 1987, the eastern Aleutian Islands biennially since 1996, and the eastern Bering Sea biennially since 1997. The Gulf of Alaska and eastern Bering Sea were sampled in 2003.

To gain a better understanding on the use and importance of nearshore habitats as essential fish habitat (EFH), we compared fish assemblages between two distinct habitat types (eelgrass, Zostera marina, and kelp, mostly Laminaria saccharina) at 30 sites..

An error in the spreadsheets used to calculate gross first wholesale revenues associated with the alternatives has been corrected.

These HCPs, referred to collectively as the Mid-Columbia HCP, are for three hydropower projects covering more than 100 river miles on the mainstem of the mid-Columbia River.