The Alaska Fisheries Science Center’s Marine Mammal Laboratory (MML) conducts annual crewed aircraft and vessel surveys to known terrestrial Steller sea lion rookery and haulout sites in Alaska to collect visual counts and high-resolution imagery.
This assessment summarizes and synthesizes climate, biological, and fishing effects on the shelf and slope regions of the Gulf of Alaska, from an ecosystem perspective, and to provides an assessment of the possible future.
This assessment summarizes and synthesizes historical climate and fishing effects on the shelf and slope regions of the Aleutian Islands (AI) from an ecosystem perspective, and provides an assessment of the possible future.