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Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center

2002 Awarded Research Projects

Principal Investigator(s)

Project Title

Terrance Quinn

Continuation: Deployment of an acoustic data logger on commercial fishing vessels to evaluate the potential of fishing-induced declines in local pollock abundance

A.J. Gharrett

Continuation: DNA analysis of the origins of chinook salmon bycatch in Alaskan trawl fisheries

Terry Whitledge

Keeping Mooring 2 alive: Continuing long-term biophysical measurements over the southeastern Bering Sea shelf

Susan Henrichs

Keeping Mooring 2 alive: Sinking particles and pelagic food webs in the SE Bering Sea 2002

Gordon Kruse

An examination of the maturation of walleye pollock in the eastern Bering Sea in relation to temporal and spatial factors

Sue Hills, Kate Wynne, Brenda Norcross, Brenda Konar

Shallow water nearshore fish assemblages around Steller sea lion haulouts near Kodiak, Alaska

Alan Springer

Jellyfish impact on food web production and ecosystem structure in the southeastern Bering Sea

Gunnar Knapp (UAA)

Producer cooperative and producer organizations

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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