This assessment summarizes and synthesizes climate, biological, and fishing effects on the shelf and slope regions of the Gulf of Alaska, from an ecosystem perspective, and to provides an assessment of the possible future.
The Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory conducts annual crewed aircraft and vessel surveys to known terrestrial Steller sea lion rookery and haulout sites in Alaska to collect visual counts and high-resolution imagery.
This assessment summarizes and synthesizes climate, biological, and fishing effects on the shelf and slope regions of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), from an ecosystem perspective, and to provides an assessment of the possible future.
This assessment summarizes and synthesizes climate, biological, and fishing effects on the shelf and slope regions of the Gulf of Alaska, from an ecosystem perspective, and to provides an assessment of the possible future.
This assessment summarizes and synthesizes historical climate and fishing effects on the shelf and slope regions of the Aleutian Islands (AI) from an ecosystem perspective, and provides an assessment of the possible future.
The National Standard Guidelines for Fishery Management Plans published by NOAA Fisheries require that a stock assessment and fishery evaluation report be prepared and reviewed annually for each fishery management plan.
The Gulf of Alaska thornyhead complex remain on a biennial stock assessment schedule with a full stock assessment produced in even years and no stock assessment produced in odd years.