• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2005-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) and shortraker rockfish (Sebastes borealis) were collected from the Washington coast, the Gulf of Alaska, the southern Bering Sea, and the eastern Kamchatka...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:45.000+00:00

The Auke Lake system has endemic populations of pink, chum, sockeye and coho salmon, and supports populations of Dolly Varden char and cutthroat and steelhead trout. The National Marine Fisheries...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2007-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Many pelagic juvenile rockfish (Sebastes) were collected in juvenile salmonid surveys in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) from 1998 to 2002. Often species identification of rockfish is difficult or...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2000-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Samples of chum (Oncorhynchus keta), sockeye (O. nerka), and chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) seized from the F/V Arctic Wind were analyzed to determine their region of origin using genetic stock...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Allozymes from 46 loci were analyzed from chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) collected at 61 locations in southeast Alaska and northern British Columbia. Of the 42 variable loci, 21 had a common...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1994-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Genetic data were collected and prepared with the use of protein electrophoresis from 52 spawning locations in southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia. Genetic relationships were...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:44.000+00:00

Capelin are important forage fish in Alaska for marine mammals, birds, and predatory fish. Capelin prefer cold water and are very sensitive to changing environmental conditions. Population...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1999-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Samples of chum (Oncorhynchus keta) and sockeye (O. nerka) salmon seized from the stateless fishing vessel Ying Fa were analyzed to determine their region of origin using genetic stock...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-09-24T12:15:17.000+00:00

NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office and Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Auke Bay Laboratories designed the Nearshore Fish Atlas of Alaska (NFA) to provide access to available data on the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:45.000+00:00

Herring is one of the most energy-rich fish in the Alaskan ecosystem, and when populations struggle over time, such as the Lynn Canal population, there is management concern. Prior to 1983, Lynn...

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

The purpose of this study was to genetically analyze axillary process samples from ~6,000 sockeye salmon harvested in the 2006 and 2007 Districts 101 gillnet and 104 purse seine sockeye fisheries...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:44.000+00:00

Variable mesh gillnets were used to evaluate the abundance of young of the year sablefish during 1995-2002. Data include. Vessel, cruise, station. Species caught, and lengths of fish caught. The...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 1998-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

In some years, the Bering Sea trawl fishery incidentally harvests (bycatch) large numbers of chum salmon. Because chum salmon were declining in some western Alaska areas, the origins of the chum...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:45.000+00:00

Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires the development of physical and biological time series that index ocean productivity for stock assessment and recruitment forecasts for commercially...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:46.000+00:00

In November, 2006, Oceanographic observations were initiated during the resupply cruises to the Little Port Walter Research Station on lower Baranof Island, Southeast Alaska. Six sampling stations...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

A genetic analyses of samples from the Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) bycatch from the 2007-2013 Bering Sea-Aleutian Island and Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries for walleye pollock (Gadus...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:49.000+00:00

This dataset contains 2-boat tow, push net and scoop net catches from the Yukon River Delta for 2014

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2004-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Allozyme variation was used to examine population genetic structure of adult chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, collected between 1988 and 1993 from 22 spawning locations in Southeast...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:48.000+00:00

The dataset contains trawl and seine catches from Southeast Alaskan estuaries sampled from 1995 to 2008. The data also include physical variables (temp, salinity, turbidity), and shorezone...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:15:46.000+00:00

Upriver movements were determined for Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha returning to the Yukon River, a large, relatively pristine river basin. A total of 2,860 fish were radio tagged during...

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