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The Alaska Climate Integrated Modeling Project

The Alaska Climate Integrated Modeling project (ACLIM) is an interdisciplinary collaboration to project and evaluate climate impacts on marine fisheries in the Bering Sea, Alaska.
Floating sea ice in the Alaskan Arctic

Rockfish Research in Alaska

Rockfish are some of the most colorful and diverse fish in Alaskan waters, and are prized by both commercial and recreational fishermen. They are also among the oldest fish on earth, with some species living over 100 years.
Shortraker rockfish. Credit: Rebecca Reuter

Safe Handling Practices to Increase Post-Capture Survival of Cetaceans, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks, and Billfish in Tuna Fisheries

We review ways to safely handle and remedy the incidental capture of sea turtles, cetaceans, seabirds, sharks, and billfish in fishing. As well as summarize the most effective measures for improving survivability of these species post incidental capture.
March 14, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,

St. Patrick's Day Wallpapers

Below are some amazing images from our research at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center. Feel free to download them for your phone or computer background.
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Combining Fish and Benthic Communities into Multiple Regimes Reveals Complex Reef Dynamics

Fish and benthic data from a wide range of sources are combined to identify five Hawaiian coral reef regimes.
February 22, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,

Try, Try Again: Lessons Learned From Success and Failure in Participatory Modeling

Participatory Modeling (PM) is becoming increasingly common in environmental planning and conservation. We provide lessons learned, based on over 200 years of the authors’ cumulative and diverse experience, about PM processes.
February 14, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,

Parsing Human and Biophysical Drivers of Coral Reef Regimes

Coral reefs worldwide face the pressure of human pollutants. We use machine learning to conduct explanatory predictions on reef ecosystems that can help inform reef practitioners and hold promises for replication across a broad range of ecosystems.
February 13, 2019 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,

Fish Life History Research in the Pacific

Effective fisheries management requires an understanding of fish growth rates, reproduction, and mortality.
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2018 North Pacific Groundfish Stock Assessments

2018 North Pacific Groundfish Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation Reports for 2019 Fisheries.

Charter Fishing in Hawaii: A Multi-Region Analysis of the Economic Linkages and Contributions Within and Outside Hawaii

This study develops several single- and multi-region input-output models in IMPLAN using the annual expenditure data from a 2012 survey of charter fishing operations in the state of Hawaii.
December 16, 2018 - Peer-Reviewed Research ,