Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center

2001 Awarded Research Projects

Principal Investigator(s)	Project Title
Gunnar Knapp (UAA)	Pollock market data acquisition future Russian pollock supply
Susan Henrichs	Sinking particles and pelagic food webs in the SE Bering Sea: 2001
A.J. Gharrett	DNA analysis of the origins of chinook salmon bycatch in Alaskan trawl fisheries
Margaret (Peggy) Merritt	Instruction in Fisheries Management
Alan Springer, Kevin Bailey, Taina Honkalehto and Janet Duffy-Anderson	Distribution of age-1 and age-2 walleye pollock in the Bering Sea: Sources of variation, implications for higher trophic levels, and climate change
Terrance Quinn	Deployment of an acoustic data logger on commercial fishing vessels to evaluate the potential of fishing-induced declines in local pollock abundance
Stephen Jewett and Paul Rusanowski	Factors affecting nearshore survival and production of juvenile sockeye salmon from Kvichak Bay—phase I: Important habitat, migration routes and food resources
Alan Springer and Andrew Trites (University of British Columbia)	Assessing the extent of competition between Steller sea lions and commercial fisheries
Markus Horning	An investigation into the possible relationship between killer whale (Orcinus orca) predation and the continuing decline of the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus)

Research projects

PCC News

Research center awards $500,000 to marine, fisheries scientists (April 8, 2008)
Fisheries center funds $300,000 in new research projects (March 27, 2007)
UAF names Keith Criddle to Stevens Professorship (February 24, 2006)
Pollock fleet provides record funding (January 31, 2006)

Contact PCCRC

Denis Wiesenburg, 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: wiesenburg@sfos.uaf.edu

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