The four-year Alaska Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Initiative is part of an effort to improve our understanding of deep-sea coral communities and aid resource managers in developing and evaluating management options for these valuable habitats.
Model-based estimates of abundance, distribution or age composition from Alaska Fisheries Science Center Groundfish Assessment Program bottom trawl survey data to stock assessment authors and other requestors on a similar timeline as their equivalent...
U.S. and Russian scientists are working together to provide survey information critical for sustainable management of economically valuable Bering Sea fisheries.