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Results of the 2017 eastern and northern Bering Sea continental shelf bottom trawl survey of groundfish and invertebrate fauna
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2019
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Description:In 2017, the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering (RACE) Division of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) conducted two contiguous bottom trawl surveys on the Bering Sea continental shelf: the 2017 “Eastern Bering Sea” (EBS) survey was the 36th in an annual time series that began in 1982 (Conner and Lauth 2017), and the 2017 “Northern Bering Sea” (NBS) survey was conducted for only the second time since 2010 (Lauth 2011). Both bottom trawl surveys are mission critical to the AFSC because the results are critical to managing fisheries resources, monitoring the ecosystem, and providing a valuable data time-series for doing basic fisheries research. Fishery-independent abundance estimates and other biological and oceanographic information from Bering Sea bottom trawl surveys are used by the AFSC, North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) to manage groundfish and crab stocks and to do ecosystem forecast modeling that are requirements of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island (BSAI) Fishery Management Plan (FMP) established under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
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Rights Information:Public Domain
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