Project Information

Title: SEA: Sound Ecosystem Assessment 97320

Project Year and Number: 1997: 97320

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2002: 02320, 2000: 00320-BAA, 1999: 99320-CLO, 1998: 98320, 1996: 96320, 1995: 95320, 1994: 94320

Principal Investigator (PI): Ted Cooney (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Pacific Herring, Pink Salmon

Abstract: This project is describing mechanisms of mortality for juvenile populations of pink salmon and Pacific herring in Prince William Sound. This information is being used to create a series of dynamic numerical models and an attendant nominal monitoring program to affect the restoration of these species through management options. The mechanisms influencing the distribution and growth rates of juveniles are being investigated by oceanographic studies. Mechanisms of predation and starvation are being studied by fisheries scientists and marine ecologists.


Proposal: Not Available

Reports:
Annual Report FY97: View (44,160 KB)
Final Report: See Project 98320

Publications from this Project: Bernatowicz, J. A.; Schempf, P. F., and Bowman, T. D. Bald eagle productivity in south-central Alaska in 1989 and 1990 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. in: Rice, S. D.; Spies, R. B.; Wolfe, D. A., and Wright, B. A., eds. Proceedings of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium. Bethesda, MD: American Fisheries Society; 1996; pp. 785-797.