Coelenterates (cnidaria and ctenophores) are well recognized as predators in food webs of
marine ecosystems but are less often considered as prey. This is partly because they are …

Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in the central and western Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian
Islands, and Bering Sea have declined by 80% in the last 30 yr. One hypothesis for the …

Considerable effort has been directed in the last decade towards the development of
multispecies, ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management. One aspect of this is …

Quantifying the nutritional quality of forage fish is integral for understanding upper trophic
levels as forage fish are the dominant prey for top predator fish, marine mammals, and sea …

Over the past two decades, numerous ecosystem surveys and process studies have
emerged to monitor and assess the large marine ecosystems of Alaska. Several regional …

Forage fishes comprise an integral part of marine food webs in the highly productive
ecosystems of the North Pacific. However, significant knowledge gaps exist related to the …

The longline survey abundance index increased 9% from 2017 to 2018 following a 14%
increase in 2017 from 2016. The lowest point of the time series was 2015. The fishery catch …

The base model projection of female spawning biomass in 2018 is 342,683 t, which is
57.5% of unfished spawning biomass (based on average post-1977 recruitment) and above …

Examining food web relationships for commercially important species enhances fisheries
management by identifying sources of variability in mortality and production that are not …

The goals of this research were to investigate geographic patterns in the Aleutian Island
region's demersal ichthyofauna and to determine whether they reflected the physical and …