Project Information

Title: Surveys and age, sex, and size collection and processing 22160111-F

Project Year and Number: 2022: 22160111-F

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2024: 24160111-F , 2023: 23160111-F , 2021: 21160111-F, 2020: 20160111-F, 2019: 19160111-F, 2018: 18160111-F, 2017: 17160111-F, 2016: 16120111-F, 2016: 16160111-T, 2015: 15120111-F, 2014: 14120111-F, 2013: 13120111-F, 2012: 12120111-F

Principal Investigator (PI): Stormy Haught (Alaska Department of Fish & Game)

Managing Agency: ADFG

Assisting Personnel: None

Project Website: https://pwssc.org/spawn-surveys-2/

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Pacific Herring

Abstract:

The proposed project will conduct spring aerial surveys to document Pacific herring milt distribution and biomass as well as the distribution and abundance of sea lions, other marine mammals, and birds associated with herring schools or spawn. This proposed project will also provide a research platform (R/V Solstice) for an adult herring disease sample collection and processing. Finally, this proposed project will collect and process age, sex, and size samples of herring collected by the acoustics survey, spawning surveys, and disease sampling. Aerial survey and age, sex, and size data have been collected since the early 1970s and are an essential part of the age-structured models used by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to estimate the historical and future biomass for fisheries management. This project will help to meet the overall program goals of providing sound scientific data and products to inform resource managers and the public of changes in herring stocks and in the PWS ecosystem.

This project was approved for the FY22-FY26 funding cycle.


Proposal: View (1,232 KB)

Reports:
FY22 Annual Report: View (832 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available

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