• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:15.000+00:00

Sampling juvenile salmon and associated fishes in open waters of the lower Columbia River estuary. Field work includes bi-weekly sampling during the spring outmigration (Apr-June), and monthly...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-06T00:00:00.000+00:00

The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA) is a joint project between staff at the NWFSC, SWFSC, NMML, ONMS, and WCRO to provide managers and policy makers with integrated...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-06T00:00:00.000+00:00

ISEMP has the overarching objective of developing management decision support tools from quantitative relationships of stream habitat quality and quantity's impact on anadromous salmonid...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2017-08-30T00:00:00.000+00:00

Conduct genetic analyses of groundfish in the northeastern Pacific, with a focus on population genetics and genomics of rockfishes and sablefish. Genetic data for groundfish.

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-07T23:04:44.000+00:00

Data for this project will reside in the West Coast Groundfish Bottom Trawl Survey Data Base. This proposal relates to a continuation and augmentation of our efforts in creating a DNA sequence...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-06T00:00:00.000+00:00

Throughout the Pacific Northwest, stream habitat degradation has been cited as a factor contributing to the decline and ESA listing of of Pacific Salmon. Thus, stream habitat restoration is a...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2018-02-15T00:00:00.000+00:00

This research provides a quantitative means of determining which communities in West Coast coastal counties are most connected to fishing, both commercial and recreational fishing, and allows for...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2004-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Estimates of harbor porpoise population size in the main basin of Puget Sound. This abundance will be derived from established methodology for marine mammal abundance estimation. Updates to...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2019-06-10T00:00:00.000+00:00

We are applying a variety of genetic tools to assess the response of our ocean resources to ocean acidification, including gene expression techniques, identification of candidate genes, and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2016-07-22T00:00:00.000+00:00

Evaluating the status of threatened and endangered salmonid populations requires information on the current status of the threats (e.g., habitat, hatcheries, hydropower, and invasives) and the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-07T23:06:38.000+00:00

We are using elliptic Fourier analysis to determine the patterns of variation in morphology of dorsal fin shape, saddle patch shape, and eye patch shape of resident, transient, and offshore killer...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2004-08-08T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Southern Resident killer whale (SRKW) population is threatened by a number of identified risk factors including prey availability, contaminants, vessel noise and disturbance, and small...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2016-12-02T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center's (NWFSC) Salmon Population Summary (SPS) database provides public access to demographic data compiled for ESA-listed salmonid populations as part of the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2019-07-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Southern Resident killer whale (SRKW) population is threatened by a number of identified risk factors including prey availability, contaminants, vessel noise and disturbance, and small...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2019-05-31T00:00:00.000+00:00

To estimate the carbon chemistry conditions experienced by free-living organisms, we will conduct coupled biological/carbon chemistry sampling for key zooplankton species and settlement plate...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2017-01-30T00:00:00.000+00:00

This project uses genetic parentage analysis to estimate the relative reproductive success of hatchery and wild steelhead spawning in the Wenatchee River, WA. The project collected data from...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2005-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

SRKW have several data gaps regarding their ecology. Diet of killer whales is being determined by analyses of predation events and feces and from stomach content of harbor porpoises. The potential...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2004-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Orcinus spp. occur in the Pacific Ocean throughout the West Coast of North America. Data concerning their precise locations and abundance are critical to understanding their population trends and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2004-08-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Transient killers whales inhabit the West Coast of the United States. Their range and movement patterns are difficult to ascertain, but are vital to understanding killer whale population dynamics...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

This project extends and advances existing ocean distribution and size models for Chinook Salmon, a major prey of Southern Resident Killer Whales (SRKW) and target of important fisheries, to...

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