FY 2000 Funded Projects

The project will analyze records of salinity and temperature collected on pollock fishing boats in the Southeast Bering Sea during 2000 and correlate the water mass structure with catch and bycatch data collected on the same and nearby boats. The salinity and temperature data are collected from Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) recorders purchased by the Pollock Conservation Council and attached to fishing nets during normal fishing operations. We will evaluate the utility of using water mass to identify regions of high catch and bycatch.