AMSS Offers Updates on Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska Research
Marine scientists focused on the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska presented a plethora of research results to several hundred participants at the 2024 Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage Jan. 29-Feb. 2, while acknowledging the unknowns that are still to be determined.
Associate Professor Peter Westley of the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences offered an update on his research into chum salmon on tributaries of the Colville River in Arctic Alaska, where fish are caught for subsistence from Kaktovik to Point Hope.
Ongoing studies, which Westley said he hopes will yield more information by the fall of 2024, are to determine the diet of these chum, their size and abundance.
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