The Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) of NOAA Fisheries, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), conducts research on marine mammals off the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California.
This is an outreach product to describe 2022 Alaska Fisheries Science Center aerial survey to obtain an abundance estimate for the endangered population of beluga whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Digital version of educational panels developed by the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Recovery Implementation Task Force and installed at public access points along the shores of Cook Inlet.
The research will be based off of the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson and will operate at the southern edge of the marginal ice zone in the Alaskan waters of the Bering Sea.
NOAA Fisheries marine mammal biologists plan to conduct an aerial survey to collect digital images of Steller sea lions in the Aleutian Islands (western Distinct Population Segment).
