Project Information

Title: River Otters and Fishes in the Nearshore Environment: A Synthesis 02593

Project Year and Number: 2002: 02593

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: None

Principal Investigator (PI): Stephen Jewett (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: Merav Ben-David, Gail Blundell

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: River Otters

Abstract: This project will integrate data collected on river otters and fishes in Prince William Sound through efforts of the NVP/025 (Nearshore Vertebrate Predator), APEX/163 (Alaska Predator Ecosystem Experiment), and SEA/320 (Sound Ecosystem Assessment) projects. Social organization and population dynamics of river otters, specialized fish-predators, are dependent on abundance and availability of fishes. This project will test the dependence of sociality in river otters on the availability of schooling fishes and evaluate the relation between the spatial and temporal distribution of fishes and those of river otter groups.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Final Report: View (270 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available