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APPENDIX B
NPRB 2002-2003 Research Priorities
2002
Marine ecosystem form and function: Factors affecting marine produc-
tivity, including nutrient transport and availability, water column stability
and the role of sea ice; influence of climate variability on physical, chemical,
and biological processes; unusual occurrences of specific organisms such
as the coccolithophorid blooms; development of ecosystems models that
will aid resource managers
Endangered and stressed species: Factors affecting survival of stressed
and endangered species, particularly marine mammals and seabirds;
responses to ocean climate trends and prey availability
Fish habitat: Mapping of bottom habitats to document presence of corals
or other sensitive substrates; studies of factors affecting habitat including
physical forcing, variations in energy flux, and overwintering conditions;
impacts of fisheries and other human influence on benthic habitat and its
capacity to support communities of organisms
Fishing capacity reduction: Studies of ways to reduce fishing capacity,
including rights-based systems
Bycatch: Studies that assess impacts of, or lead to reductions in, bycatch
of juvenile fish or non-target species (including salmon), including gear
designs to improve selectivity
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Salmon stock dynamics: Studies of factors affecting salmon stock dynamics,
mortality, and migration throughout their range and life cycle, particu-
larly for Western Alaska salmon stocks
Stock assessment and ecology: Studies to improve stock assessment tech-
niques and understanding of larval fish ecology
Contaminants: Studies of sources, transport, and accumulation of con-
taminants in subsistence, recreational, and commercial species and other
ecosystem components; effects on ecosystem structure and function; and
effects of climate change on contaminants
2003
Marine ecosystem structure and processes:
· Factors affecting marine productivity, including nutrient transport
and availability, water column stability, and role of sea ice
· Influence of climate variability on physical, chemical, and bio-
logical processes; unusual occurrences of specific organisms such as
coccolithophorid blooms
· Development of ecosystems models that will aid resource managers
· Origins and impacts of invasive species
· Long-term monitoring of biophysical parameters and phytoplankton
and zooplankton
Endangered and stressed species:
· Factors, including fisheries, that affect survival of stressed and
endangered species, particularly marine mammals, seabirds, and sea ducks
· Responses to ocean climate trends and prey availability
Fish habitat:
· Habitat mapping and substrate classification, including documen-
tation of the presence of corals or other sensitive substrates, studies of
factors affecting habitat including physical forcing, variations in energy
flux, and overwintering conditions
· Impacts of fisheries and other human influence on habitat and its
capacity to support communities of organisms, including adaptive man-
agement research
· Fishery management tools to facilitate fish habitat protection
Fishery management and economics: Economic implications of fishery
management approaches, including rights-based systems and fishing
capacity reductions
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Bycatch:
· Studies that assess the impacts of or lead to reductions in bycatch,
especially in groundfish fisheries, including gear designs to improve
selectivity
· Stock composition research on bycatch species, including salmon,
in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bearing Sea and Aleutian Island groundfish
fisheries
· Improved methods of estimating bycatch mortality
Stock assessment and recruitment processes:
· Studies to develop or improve fish stock assessment techniques,
including estimates of all sources of fishing mortality and quantifying
estimates of natural mortality
· Research on interdependence of fisheries or stocks of fish
· Studies of factors affecting salmon stock dynamics, mortality, and
migration throughout their range and life cycle, particularly for Western
Alaska salmon stocks
· Improved genetic identification of salmon stocks
Contaminants:
· Studies of sources, transport, and accumulation of contaminants in
subsistence, recreational, and commercial species, and other ecosystem
components
· Effects on ecosystem structure and function
· Effects of climate change on contaminants
· Studies of pollution from oil spills, increased runoff as a result of
logging and other coastal development, and development of predictive
models
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