Project Information

Title: APEX: Alaska Predator Ecosystem Experiment in PWS and the GOA 97163

Project Year and Number: 1997: 97163

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2002: 02163, 2001: 01163-CLO, 2000: 00163, 1999: 99163, 1998: 98163, 1996: 96163, 1995: 95163, 1994: 94163

Principal Investigator (PI): Jeep Rice (NOAA )

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Prince William Sound, Kenai Peninsula

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Common Murres, Harbor Seals, Marbled Murrelets, Pacific Herring, Pigeon Guillemot

Abstract: This project will compare the reproductive and foraging biologies, including diet, of seabirds in Prince William Sound with similar measurements from Cook Inlet, an area with apparently a more suitable food environment. These measurements will be compared with hydroacoustic and net samples of fish to calibrate seabird performance with fish distribution and abundance, in an effort to determine the extent to which food limits the recovery of seabirds. Fish will be sampled to determine whether competitive and predatory interactions or different responses to the environment may be favoring the abundance of one fish species over another.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Annual Report FY97: View (25,709 KB)
Final Report: View (7,170 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available