An Example of Fisheries Oceanography: Walleye Pollock in Alaskan Waters

Jim Schumacher

NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115

Arthur W. Kendall, Jr.

NOAA, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington

U.S. National Report to International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1991–1994, Rev. Geophys., Suppl., 1153–1163 (1995)
Copyright ©1995 by the American Geophysical Union. Further electronic distribution is not allowed.

Gallery of Figures

Figure 1. Upper Panel: The FOCI study area in the western Gulf of Alaska with a schematic showing the location of pollock life history stages. The outlined arrows represent potential transport of larvae off the shelf. Lower Panel: Circulation in the study area as derived from satellite-tracked buoys (51) drogued at 40 m and deployed between 1986 and 1994 (after Schumacher and Kendall [1991]).

Figure 2. Upper Panel: A schematic of the general circulation over the basin of the Bering Sea as derived from ongoing FOCI research (after Stabeno and Reed [1994]). Lower Panel: A schematic of circulation over the eastern shelf based on previous results [Schumacher and Kinder, 1983], together with more recent satellite-tracked buoy [Stabeno and Reed, 1994] and moored current observations [Schumacher and Reed, 1992]. ACC is the Alaska Coastal Current, which enters through Unimak Pass, and W represents regions with weak or statistically insignificant mean flow.

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