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The Future of Alaska's Salmon Returns
April
21, 2003
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Commons 107
University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Contact: Paula Cullenberg or Dr. Milo Adkison
The success of Alaska's wild salmon fishery ultimately depends on the amount of fish available to harvest, and the intensity and duration of fluctuations in run strength. Hardships due to market conditions are exacerbated if salmon returns are weak. This workshop focused on what the future holds for run strengths of Alaska's salmon populations statewide. Recent and prehistoric changes in run sizes, their possible causes, our ability to predict returns, and the effects of fluctuations on fisheries were examined. The causes of declines in the Pacific Northwest were also discussed.
Presentations
(The following are PDFs created from PowerPoint presentations)
The
future of Alaska’s salmon returns
Milo Adkison (473 K)
Changes
in sockeye salmon populations over the past 2,200 years: Inferences
from lake sediments
Irene Gregory-Eaves
Low-res PDF, part 1 (845 K)
Low-res PDF, part 2 (1.7 MB)
Why
we need to think about the long-term outlook for Alaska’s
salmon returns
Gunnar Knapp ( 60 K)
El
Niño, climate change,
and
Alaska salmon production
Nathan Mantua (1.4 MB)
Variation
in survival rates of salmon stocks across space and time
Randall Peterman (236 K)
Salmon and society: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest
Robin Waples
Low-res PDF (3.82 MB)
PowerPoint presentation (2 MB)
PowerPoint vertical slides (355 K)
Abstracts
Abstracts and speaker bios (338 K PDF)
(Where available, the titles below are linked to abstracts in Microsoft Word)
Future
salmon abundance in Alaska: An overview
Milo Adkison, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Changes
in sockeye salmon populations over the past 2,200 years: Inferences from
lake sediments
Irene Gregory-Eaves, University of Ottowa
Effects of
salmon fluctuations on fisheries
Gunnar Knapp, University of Alaska Anchorage
El
Niño, climate change, and Pacific salmon production: A review of
the ways that changes in climate and ocean conditions impact salmon productivity
and a look at scenarios of future climate and salmon populations
Nathan Mantua, University of Washington
Variation
in survival rates of salmon stocks across space and time: How much of
it can we expect to explain or forecast?
Randall Peterman, Simon Fraser University
The
cause of salmon declines—the Pacific NW experience
Robin Waples, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
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| Left to right: Nathan Mantua, University of Washington; Robin Waples, National Marine Fisheries Service; Irene Gregory-Eaves, University of Ottawa; Randall Peterman, Simon Fraser University; Gunnar Knapp, University of Alaska Anchorage. (Courtesy Doug Schneider, Alaska Sea Grant) |