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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

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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