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Feds declare fisheries disaster for Yukon kings (1/15)
Secretary Locke discusses salmon, transportation, census (1/22)
Disaster declaration suggests bycatch decision will stand (1/22)
Ninth Circuit Opinion. FISHERMEN'S FINEST INC. v. LOCKE (1/19)
Bodies found in Alaska crash; co-pilot from Seattle area (1/24)
Opinion. Lawsuit sure to follow moratorium (1/20)
USCG Steps Up Inspections in Advance of Crab Fisheries (KMXT Audio) (1/19)
NOAA head announces she will takes steps to improve fisheries law enforcement (1/21)
SSL. Laboratory Studies – One More Piece of the Puzzle (1/18)
NOAA. Presentations from Council Coordination Committee Meeting (Jan 13-14)
Coast Guard coordinates rescue of three in Ugak Bay near Kodiak Island (1/16)
Fishing crew rescued after boat runs aground in Southeast Alaska (1/24)
Subsistence board OKs $5.5 million for assessments (1/22)
Oceans' breaking point is near, Cousteau says (1/22)
STATE
Unalaska Bay trawl closure under consideration by Board of fish (1/14)
Is Alaska's fishing industry in danger? (1/16) (Video KTVA)
Yukon River kings will be hot topic at fish board meeting this week (1/24)
Juneau, Maine swap fish tales (1/22)
MARKETING
Seafood ecolabels under the spotlight in new WWF report (1/18)
EDF. Alaska Pollock Remains Good Seafood Choice Despite Current Challenges (1/14)
MISC
Pollock Fleet Donations Top $10 Million in 10 Years (1/12)
FEDERAL
AFSC
Seabird Studies: Interactions with Paravanes . With funding from the National Cooperative Research Program and the NMFS Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program, a pilot study on seabird interactions with paravanes was conducted in August.
A paravane is a device that trawl operators use to obtain signals from net monitoring equipment. The paravane receives acoustic signals as it is deployed at 5 or more fathoms deep via a boom alongside the vessel (Fig. 1). Because seabirds are often attracted to vessels to take advantage of fish discharge, they may come into contact with this gear. This study is the first work in the North Pacific on seabird paravane interactions.
Project goals were to 1) learn about the basic usage of paravane gear, 2) obtain baseline information on seabird interactions with the paravane gear, and 3) attempt to develop and deploy at least three different types of mitigation measures.
Industry partners included the North Pacific Fisheries Foundation and Cascade Fishing, Inc., owners of the fishing trawler Seafisher. This study was needed due to a potential for interactions between paravanes and the endangered short-tailed albatross (Phobastria albatrus). More
Sea Lion versus Octopus. A rainy late-December walk on a north Douglas Island beach revealed a wildlife spectacle for Staci Augustus of Juneau. She saw a Steller sea lion thrashing around on the surface of the water near the beach and began photographing it.
“It was eating something – I couldn’t tell what at the time but I figured it was a fish or crab.”
Steller sea lion holds a giant North Pacific Octopus in its mouth and prepares to dismember it. The octopus was estimated at about 25 pounds. Staci Augustus photo
She shot the activity for about five minutes and didn’t realize exactly what was going on until she downloaded the pictures. Displayed on the computer screen it was apparent the sea lion had an octopus. It’s a giant North Pacific octopus, and marine biologist Sherry Tamone of Juneau estimated its weight at about 25 pounds. A scuba diver as well as a professor at the University of Alaska Southeast, Tamone has worked with octopus and has an appreciation for the big mollusks. More
Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet terminates commercial fishing vessel for safety violations (1/14). KODIAK, Alaska -- The Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet terminated the voyage of the 77-foot commercial fishing vessel Topaz for a safety violation during a boarding 14 miles southeast of Cape Chiniak Thursday.
A Coast Guard boarding team from the cutter found the vessel master operating without any immersion suits available for the crew. The Coast Guard requires commercial fishing vessels to operate with immersion suits available for each crew member in appropriate sizes.
"This was a serious oversight by the crew of fishing vessel Topaz and could have resulted in a significant loss of life had it not been for the vigilance of the Acushnet's boarding team," said Lt. Kirk Fistick, operations officer cutter Achushnet. "We were happy to clear the violation upon returning to Kodiak where the survival suits were stored."
The Topaz, a stern trawler, was conducting a test trawl in an apporoved area to ensure all fishing gear was operational at the time of the boarding. All vessels are reminded they must carry immersion suits at all times while underway.
The vessel's crew was escorted by the Acushnet to the Kodiak port. After conducting an eight hour boarding the boarding team remained on board during the transit.
"The boarding team from the cutter Acushnet was able to inspect the survival suits that were waiting at the pier allowing the fishing vessel Topaz to get underway the next day," said Fistick.
In addition to the termination the crew of the Acushnet boarded four other vessels in the Kodiak area Thursday. Link
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke declared a commercial fishing disaster for Yukon River king salmon Friday following two years of poor runs, fishing restrictions and bans.
“Communities in Alaska along the Yukon River depend heavily on chinook salmon for commercial fishing, jobs and food,” Locke said in a statement from the Commerce Department. “Alaska fishermen and their families are struggling with a substantial loss in income and revenues.”
The declaration — requested by Gov. Sean Parnell and others — does not automatically send money to communities hammered by the loss of chinook salmon to eat and sell.
But in the past, such declarations have meant federal money for research, infrastructure or payments to fishermen. Parnell’s office said it could also fund training programs and other regional projects. More
Secretary Locke discusses salmon, transportation, census (1/22). Two consecutive years of low Chinook salmon runs on the Yukon River prompted U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Jan. 15 to declare a fishery disaster.
"Communities in Alaska along the Yukon River depend heavily on Chinook salmon for commercial fishing, jobs and food," Locke said. "I have determined that a fishery disaster has occurred due to consecutive years of low Chinook salmon returns. Alaska fishermen and their families are struggling with a substantial loss in income and revenues."
In 2008, state fisheries officials responded to low Chinook salmon returns by reducing the commercial Chinook harvest to 89 percent below the recent five-year average.
No commercial Chinook salmon fishery was allowed in 2009 on the Yukon River, and the state also restricted subsistence harvests. State fisheries officials also expect another poor season in 2010.
Locke's announcement came just before he and Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, held a business roundtable discussion in Anchorage with 30 community leaders on potential trade expansion between Alaska and the Pacific Rim. More
Disaster declaration suggests bycatch decision will stand (1/22). Commerce Secretary Gary Locke's long-awaited announcement declaring a fisheries disaster on the Yukon River suggests that he will not reject a decision by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council on king salmon bycatch.
The Alaska Federation of Natives and other groups want Locke to reject the NPFMC's April 2009 recommendation that would allow the Pollock fishing industry an overall king salmon cap of 68,392 and a performance cap of 47,951.
Many have criticized the decision, saying the council should have set a lower cap on the king salmon accidentally caught by the pollock fleet. This salmon are caught in the Bering Sea, before the fish can return to their birth rivers to spawn.
The council's recommendation wouldn't go into effect until 2011.
Many blame high bycatch levels in recent years for declining king salmon runs on the Yukon.
AFN, in a resolution passed this fall, said about half of the bycatch comes from Western Alaska rivers like the Yukon.
The issue of bycatch was downplayed in the written statement from the U.S. Commerce Department announcing Locke's decision.
Noting that the reason for the salmon run's decline is not fully understood, the statement said "scientists believe they are predominantly natural." More
Bodies found in Alaska crash; co-pilot from Seattle area (1/24). SAND POINT, Alaska — Searchers on Sunday found the underwater wreckage of a plane that crashed near Sand Point with two bodies still strapped inside, troopers say.
Pilots Ameer Ali, 28, and Emily Lewis, 23, had been missing since the ACE Air Cargo Beechcraft 1900 they were flying went down around midnight Thursday night. The plane was carrying fish and mail to Anchorage.
Shortly before noon Sunday, searchers discovered what appeared to be a part of the plane, said troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters. A diver soon found two bodies inside, she said.
Ali was the pilot and Lewis the co-pilot. While Peters said the bodies likely hadn't been identified Sunday, there was no one else on the plane, according to rescuers.
The Coast Guard called off its search for survivors Friday night, but Sunday representatives for ACE Air Cargo and an insurance company continued to look for wreckage, said Aaron Sauer, an air-safety investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. More
Opinion. Lawsuit sure to follow moratorium (1/20). I am currently outside in the Lower 48 at sportsman shows. I recently got word of the charter fleet moratorium being passed by NOAA. I also read the article from Mr. Murphy and Mr. Ward.
My question is: Do NOAA, Rex Murphy and Bob Ward really believe it is just that easy? They are not "freezing the fleet at its current size" as quoted in the newspaper, they are reducing it to their set predetermined "control date." They are actually forcing established charter owners who have been fishing the last four to five years to close their doors.
As I see it, next comes the "Class Action Lawsuit" against NOAA, NPFMC and those individuals who pushed written drafts and lobbied for the moratorium as it is written today. This suit will be for violation of our constitutional rights to free enterprise by shutting down "established businesses" and also will be for monetary amount of lost revenue for the next 20-plus years for each "established business" that has had to shut down due to this ruling. I am relatively positive that each and every operator that gets shut down will be signing onto that lawsuit. More
USCG Steps Up Inspections in Advance of Crab Fisheries (KMXT Audio/More) (1/19). Last week the Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet terminated the voyage of the Kodiak trawler Topaz during a boarding 14-miles southeast of Cape Chiniak. The Ketchikan-based Acushnet was on routine patrol and conducted boardings of four other boats near Kodiak Island. The Topaz was conducting a test trawl to ensure all its gear was in working order, but according to Lieutenant Kirk Fistick, operations officer on the Acushnet, the trawler did not have any survival suits onboard at all. Coast Guard rules require an immersion suit for each crewmember whenever the boat is underway.
The boarding crew stayed aboard for eight hours and escorted the Topaz back to Kodiak where the survival suits were stored. The Topaz was allowed to get back underway the next day.
NOAA head announces she will takes steps to improve fisheries law enforcement (1/21). NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco has directed the agency’s enforcement and legal offices to take steps to promote greater transparency in law enforcement, ensure fairness in penalties, and improve lines of communication with commercial and recreational fishermen.
The action comes in response to a Commerce Department Inspector General (NOAA is an agency of the Commerce Department) nationwide review issued today that outlines several recommendations to improve NOAA’s enforcement operations. Dr. Lubchenco requested the review in June 2009 after hearing concerns about NOAA enforcement from some members of the fishing community and Congress.
“Rebuilding our fisheries and sustaining the jobs and coastal communities that depend on them is a goal we share with the fishing public,” said Dr. Lubchenco. “As fishermen know, having an enforcement program that is transparent and perceived as fair and accountable is central to sustainable fishery management. This nationwide review shows that we can do a better job in this regard. We will take steps to improve the system and to reinforce confidence in the system — in the interest of the fisheries resource and all who are dependent upon its viability.”
One of the recommendations of the IG report is for NOAA to develop more uniform policies and procedures where appropriate. To that end, Dr. Lubchenco has asked NOAA’s new general counsel, Lois Schiffer, to lead a high level review of existing policies and procedures, and recommend ways to increase coordination and consistency, transparency, accountability, and fairness nationwide in agency law enforcement efforts. Schiffer starts at NOAA on Feb. 1. More
SSL. Laboratory Studies – One More Piece of the Puzzle (1/18). Scientific questions — like whether nutritional stress has led to the decline of Steller sea lion populations — are too large to be answered by a single experiment or study. Rather, scientists carefully examine one particular aspect of the overall hypothesis to test. Their individual results are added to the assemblage of scientific knowledge. However, at some point, these disparate chunks of understanding must be put together into a cohesive framework to readdress the validity of the original question.
In this way, answering a scientific question is a little like completing a jigsaw puzzle. Each experiment is akin to an individual piece, but the big picture can only be clearly seen when those pieces are put together in a logical fashion.
Consortium researcher Dr. David Rosen (UBC Marine Mammal Research Unit) recently undertook a comprehensive review of the evidence from studies of captive animals that could be used to evaluate the validity of the Nutritional Stress hypothesis as an explanation for the decline of Steller sea lions in the wild. His work was published in the journal Mammal Review. Put simply, the Nutritional Stress Hypothesis states that Steller sea lion populations in the North Pacific are in decline due to inadequate nutrition, caused by changes in the quality and quantity of their prey. More
Coast Guard coordinates rescue of three in Ugak Bay near Kodiak Island (1/16). The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of three mariners on the 32-foot fishing vessel Butterfly, homeported in Homer, after the crew reported their vessel was taking on water about a mile off Gull Point in Ugak Bay near Kodiak Island Saturday.
Coast Guard Sector Anchorage Command Center watchstanders received a mayday call at about 11:24 a.m. via VHF-FM channel 16 from the Butterfly's crew stating they needed assistance and the vessel's dewatering pumps were not keeping up with the flooding. The watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast.
The good Samaritan crew on the fishing vessel Tempest responded to the UMIB and arrived on scene to assist the Butterfly. A Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched and once on scene lowered a dewatering pump to the Butterfly. The Coast Guard Cutters Acushnet and Roanoke Island diverted to the Butterfly's location to assist as needed. The Roanoke Island was released from the case since the Acushnet arrived on scene first.
The Tempest towed the Butterfly to Old Harbor on Kodiak Island and arrived safely about 5 p.m. Saturday. The Acushnet escorted the vessels to the harbor.
The Butterfly's crew reported the flooding is under control but the source of the flooding is unknown. It is reported there is no evidence of pollution.
The Coast Guard would like to remind mariners to ensure the vessels have the proper emergency equipment on board and to file a float plan with family and friends. All mariners should shift to using GPS systems due to the upcoming Loran-C signal termination.
The Coast Guard Cutter Acushnet is a 213-foot Diver Class Cutter homeported out of Ketchikan. Link
Fishing crew rescued after boat runs aground in Southeast Alaska (1/24). A U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued three fishermen whose boat had run aground in southeast Alaska Friday.
Coast Guard officials say the crew of the Alaska Adventure was traveling between Petersburg and Juneau when they ran aground. Soon after, their boat lifted to a 45-degree angle, prompting the crew to abandon ship and use their lifecraft.
A Coast Guard crew arrived on the scene around 7:30 p.m. and extracted the crew.
There was no sign of fuel leaking onto the ocean waters. The owner of the boat and the Coast Guard will attempt to refloat the vessel Saturday. Link
Subsistence board OKs $5.5 million for assessments (1/22). The Federal Subsistence Board met Jan. 12-14 in Anchorage. During its Jan. 13 meeting, the board considered the funding for projects on the Fisheries Resource Monitoring Plan, and it approved $5.5 million for the 2010 plan.
Prior to the Federal Subsistence Board's action on the draft 2010 Fisheries Resource Monitoring Plan, Pat Pourchot, special assistant to the Secretary of the Interior for Alaska Affairs, gave a review saying they largely completed outreach efforts, having traveled to many regions of the state, including Kotzebue area, Yukon Delta, Fort Yukon, Fairbanks, the Kenai Peninsula, Juneau and Ketchikan in addition to meeting with many people in Anchorage, including rural folks who have traveled in for various other meetings.
"We have met with both subsistence users and groups and other interested parties in the federal program, including sport and commercial interests; and we have met with the state of Alaska governor's office and ADF&G officials. We have received numerous verbal and written comments from many of these people and organizations," Pourchot recounted in an e-mail. "We are now going through the comments and categorizing by topic and identifying all the suggested changes in the program. We will then analyze these issues and suggested actions in the development of draft recommendations to give to the Secretary of the Interior for his consideration. I am guessing that this process will take another month or so." More
Oceans' breaking point is near, Cousteau says (1/22). The Alaska SeaLife Center's first Marine Gala took place Jan. 17 at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage, with over 500 men and women dressed to the max and ocean explorer and environmentalist Jean-Michel Cousteau presenting a talk advocating ocean conservation.
The event benefited Alaska SeaLife Center programs promoting ocean literacy such as SeaTrek, Magic Planet Globe Systems and educational internships.
Approximately $58,500 was raised through silent auction, donation and ticket sales.
According to Cousteau, son of the renowned Jacques Cousteau and founder of Ocean Futures Society, we are at a pinnacle point regarding the ocean's future.
"We are using the ocean as a sewer and it's affecting the marine life," he said.
Cousteau showed portions of a DVD revealing beaches in northwest Hawaii littered with plastic.
"Junk from 52 different countries," he said.
The heaps of debris contained everyday items such as lighters, toothbrushes, a computer monitor and a mascara wand.
This, he continued, is what marine mammal species have to put up with. And that worries him. What worries him more, however, are the things we can't see, the chemicals and heavy metals polluting our waters. More
STATE
Unalaska Bay trawl closure under consideration by Board of fish (1/14). The state’s Board of Fisheries is considering closing Unalaska Bay to all trawling year round. At present, the pelagic trawl fleet is allowed to harvest in the Bay during pollock B season, from June 10 to November 1. Many local residents and the Unalaska/Dutch Harbor Fish and Game Advisory Committee want the area to be closed to all trawling year round. This week, city council also unanimously approved a resolution supporting the closure.
More boats began trawling in Unalaska Bay in 2002, taking any where from 400 to 57 hundred metric tons of pollock. That’s less than half of one percent of the total harvest; in some years it is less than a tenth.
Along with the harvest came varying rates of salmon bycatch. According to Alaska Department of Fish & Game biologist Forrest Bowers, the pollock harvest from Unalaska Bay in 2009 was 1488 metric tons and 287 Chinook and 530 chum were caught as bycatch. That gives rates of 0.19 Chinook per metric ton and 0.36 chum per metric ton. Over the past six years, Chinook salmon bycatch rates in Unalaska Bay ranged from 0.03 to 0.69 Chinook per metric ton of pollock. One of the highest rates for the entire Bering Sea, in 2007, was 0.09 Chinook per metric ton.
Bowers said when fishing in the bay, the pollock fleet is catching juvenile salmon from other places, not local salmon. But community members and local subsistence fishermen, like Walter Tellman, are still concerned about where the boats are going. More
Is Alaska's fishing industry in danger? (1/16) (Video KTVA). Odds are, anytime an American picks up seafood...it comes from Alaska's waters. In a story you'll only see on CBS 11, Matt Felling takes a look ahead to what we need to be doing to keep it that way.
Yukon River kings will be hot topic at fish board meeting this week (1/24). The Alaska Board of Fisheries will meet for six days in Fairbanks starting Tuesday, and the big issue will be Yukon River king salmon. The fact that the federal government last week declared the 2008 and 2009 Yukon River king salmon runs disasters only magnifies the situation.
“It’s going to be interesting to see what happens,” said Mike Smith, subsistence resource director for Tanana Chiefs Conference in Fairbanks. “We’re hoping some conservation efforts are implemented.”
TCC represents dozens of villages on the upper and middle Yukon and Tanana rivers, and many fishermen in those villages say both the size of the Yukon king run and the size of the fish themselves are getting smaller, Smith said.
Stan Zuray of Tanana is one of them.
“We’ve removed all the real big fish,” Zuray said. “The 50-pounders are gone, and there’s only a few left over 40 pounds. Now we’re reduced to 30-pounders.”
The decline in big fish is one of the reasons Zuray, a member of the Tanana/Rampart/Manley Fish and Game Advisory Committee, wants to see the Fish Board pass a proposal that would restrict fishermen to using nets with only 6-inch mesh size instead of the current 8-inch mesh favored by fishermen, especially those in the lower river. Smaller net size would allow more big fish to escape, he said. More
Juneau, Maine swap fish tales (1/22). "As you'll maybe find out when you leave here, there's no place like this on earth," commercial fisherman Chris Place told 25 Glacier Valley students interviewing him on board his 42-foot combination vessel, Mara, last Friday.
Place knows this better than many. He grew up fishing in Southeast Alaska and, though he has owned other boats, the Mara is the same boat on which he lost parts of several fingers when he was just 14 years old. He later left the community and was trained as a classical French chef but returned to Alaska, and to fishing, a job that means he's seen more sunrises and sunsets "than most people will see in a lifetime."
"Set, haul. Set, haul. One day bleeds into the next... . When you're fishing, you try not to sleep," Place told them. "The less you sleep the more money you make. You never know when your biggest day will be."
Fishing, Place told the students, is part of what makes Southeast Alaska what it is.
Many of those students, in fourth and fifth grade, may not have left Southeast Alaska. But before they're done with the two-year project for which they were interviewing Place and 12 others last week, they'll have a better understanding of the fishing community in Southeast Alaska - and how it is like, and unlike, a fishing community all the way across the continent, in the Stonington School District in Deer Isle, Maine. More
MARKETING
Seafood ecolabels under the spotlight in new WWF report (1/18). The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) comes out on top in a new report commissioned by WWF that reveals poor performance among other assessed seafood ecolabelling schemes and calls for improvements across the board to strengthen their effectiveness.
Accenture’s non-profit practice, Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) compared and ranked seven fishery certification schemes that use ecolabels on seafood products against a set of WWF criteria that focus on the schemes’ effectiveness in addressing the health of fisheries and oceans.
The MSC is ranked the highest in the ADP report, Assessment of On-Pack, Wild-Capture Seafood Sustainability Certification Programmes and Seafood Ecolabels, with a score of just over 95 percent compliance to the assessment’s criteria requirements.
Many seafood ecolabels are inadequate
The report finds that except for the MSC, the other assessed schemes - Naturland, Friend of the Sea, Krav, AIDCP, Mel-Japan and Southern Rocklobster - do not evaluate fisheries across all criteria to the extent required to support sustainable fishing and healthy oceans.
“The findings of this assessment reveal serious inadequacies in a number of ecolabels and cast doubt on their overall contribution to effective fisheries management and sustainability.” said Miguel Jorge, Director of WWF International’s Marine Programme.
“While the assessment shows the MSC comes out best in class using the most rigorous programme out there, it is not perfect. Improvements are needed across the board to ensure all seafood ecolabels deliver on their promise.” More
EDF. Alaska Pollock Remains Good Seafood Choice Despite Current Challenges (1/14). Today the Monterey Bay Aquarium – with whom Environmental Defense Fund partners on its Seafood Selector – updated its popular Seafood Watch pocket guides. A number of new and revised rankings were part of the update, including the first-ever farmed salmon to reach the ‘Green’ (Best Choice) list.
Perhaps the most notable new ranking is for Alaska pollock, which was moved from ‘Green’ (Best Choice) to ‘Yellow’ (Good Alternative). If you’ve never heard of pollock, it’s related to cod and is actually the fourth most popular seafood item in America. It’s the whitefish used in fish sticks, fish filet sandwiches, and surimi (imitation crab meat). Pollock is the largest fishery in the United States (and the largest food-fish fishery in the world), with annual catches averaging two billion pounds.
Some people may interpret the ‘Good Alternative’ ranking to mean that the Alaska pollock is no longer sustainable. Rather, Monterey Bay Aquarium’s new report, which took more than a year to write, highlights some environmental challenges facing the fishery, but ultimately concludes that pollock is still a good choice for both seafood consumers and businesses. (This fact was confirmed yesterday when the pollock fishery was recommended for re-certification to the Marine Stewardship Council).
Here’s a brief outline of Monterey Bay Aquarium’s findings: More
MISC
Pollock Fleet Donations Top $10 Million in 10 Years (1/12). Fairbanks, Alaska—A group of pollock-fishing companies have donated more than $10 million to the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences during the last decade.
The donations place the Pollock Conservation Cooperative among the largest private contributors to the University of Alaska since its inception in 1917. Donations fund the Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center, the Ted Stevens Distinguished Professor of Marine Policy and the preservation of Ted Stevens’ papers. The research center was founded in 2000 and has received about $1 million annually.
“By giving in support of ocean science, the PCC doesn’t just benefit from the bounty of the sea, but also gives back to ensure the sustainability of our fisheries for future generations,” said Denis Wiesenburg, dean of the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. “Their funding of our center allows us to jump-start research projects whose results are important to understanding and managing Alaska’s robust fisheries.”
The center provides grants to University of Alaska faculty members and other scientists to study North Pacific marine and coastal ecosystems, fisheries and marine mammals. Recent projects include studies of Steller sea lion pups, DNA analysis of chum salmon, population dynamics of Pacific Ocean perch and the effects of ocean acidification on juvenile walleye pollock. Pollock Conservation Cooperative members include American Seafoods Company, Arctic Storm, Glacier Fish Company, Starbound and Trident Seafoods Corporation. Link
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