Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center
2006 Awarded Research Projects
DNA analysis of the origins of chum salmon bycatch in Alaskan trawl fisheries
Award: $67,409
Estimated Completion: June 30, 2007
Abstract
Chum salmon are important to rural Alaskans' livelihood and culture and are a subject of international allocation (the Pacific Salmon Treaty). Chum salmon are also taken as bycatch in fisheries including trawl fisheries in the Bering Sea. This project aims to determine the origins and destinations of fish in order to address these questions:
- What is the marine distribution of a particular “stock”?
- To what extent does the distribution change during the year?
- To what extent does the distribution differ between years?
- What environmental factors are related to distributional changes?
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