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Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center

2005 Awarded Research Projects

Principal Investigator(s)

Project Title

A.J. Gharrett

Developing DNA markers for the analysis of Chum Salmon bycatch in Alaskan trawl fisheries

Kate Wynne

Predation on Northern fur seals in the Pribilof Islands: a baseline study. Phase I: Traditional knowledge survey and  local fisheries interactions

Gunnar Knapp

A collaborative proposal: Symposium on re-authorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act and enhancing the role of regional fishery management councils

Brenda Konar

Essential larval and juvenile fish habitat in nearshore waters of Kachemak Bay, Alaska

Margaret (Peggy) Merritt

Instruction in fisheries management

Terrance Quinn

Continuation: Deployment of an acoustic data logger on commercial fishing vessels to evaluate the potential on fishing

Andrew Trites (University of British Columbia)

Changes in Steller Sea lion skull sizes: Testing the nutritional stress and killer whale predation hypothesis

Al Tyler

Finishing work on the new book: Fishes, Catches and Science of Alaska Seas

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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