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Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center

2000 Awarded Research Projects

Principal Investigator(s)

Project Title

Margaret (Peggy) Merritt

Instruction in fisheries management

Gunnar Knapp

Markets for Alaska pollock products

Robert Foy, Kate Wynne

The quality of commercial fish species in Steller sea lion habitat units

David Musgrave, Hank Statscewich

Analysis of hydrographic data collected by the Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center in the Bering Sea

Shannon Atkinson

Thyroid hormones and plasma leptin concentrations during food deprivation and satiety: use as an index of metabolic condition in free-ranging Steller sea lions

Shannon Atkinson, Michael Castellini

Capture and holding of transient juvenile sea lions

Markus Horning

Validating the use of satellite-linked mortality transmitters in rehabilitated California sea lions and juvenile Steller sea lions

Alan Springer

Do Steller sea lions at the Pribilofs have enough to eat? Evidence from diet and stress hormones

Richard Thorne, Gary Thomas, John Goering

Interactions among Steller sea lions, pollock and herring and an examination of variability associated with acoustic surveys of pollock

Research projects

PCCRC News

PCCRC Announces Availability of Funds for 2012 August 30, 2011

Pollock fleet donations top $10 million in 10 years January 13, 2010
Fairbanks, Alaska – A group of pollock catcher-processor companies have donated more than $10 million to the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences during the last decade.

PCCRC awards $500,000 to marine, fisheries scientists April 8, 2008
The Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has funded more than $500,000 for the study of Alaska's marine ecosystems.

Fisheries center funds $300,000 in new research projects March 27, 2007)
Fairbanks, Alaska – The Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has awarded more than $300,000 to fisheries and marine scientists to study the health of Alaska's marine resources.

UAF names Keith Criddle to Stevens Professorship (February 24, 2006)
Fairbanks, Alaska – Alaska will soon have a new marine policy expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

Pollock fleet provides record funding (January 31, 2006)
Fairbanks, Alaska – Donations from a group of North Pacific pollock fishing companies to the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have made them the single largest private contributor in School history.

Contact PCCRC

Michael Castellini, PCCRC Director
School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
University of Alaska Fairbanks
P.O. Box 757220
Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220

Phone: (907) 474-7210
Fax: (907) 474-7204
Email: macastellini@alaska.edu

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