1993 bottom trawl survey of the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf
1993 bottom trawl survey of the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf
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1993年白令海东部大陆架底拖网调查
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1993
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通讯作者:
D. Nichol
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C. E. Armistead;D. Nichol
The Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center conducts annual bottom trawl surveys to monitor the condition of the demersal fish and crab stocks of the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf. The standard study area, surveyed each year since 1979, encompasses a major portion of the eastern Bering Sea shelf between the 20-m and the 200-m isobaths and from the Alaska Peninsula north to approximately the latitude of St. Matthew Island (60E50NN). In 2004, two chartered trawlers, the 40-m F/V Arcturus and the 40-m F/V Aldebaran, again surveyed this area. Demersal populations were sampled by trawling for 30 minutes at stations centered in a 20 × 20 nautical mile grid covering the survey area. At each station, species composition of the catch was determined. Length distributions and age structure samples were collected from ecologically and commercially important species. 395 stations were sampled. Fish biomass was dominated by walleye Pollock and Pacific cod (4.4 metric tons). A total of 229 invertebrate species were identified in the survey. Survey results presented in this report include relative fishing powers of the survey vessels, abundance estimates for fish and invertebrates, geographic distributions of important fish species and size composition of principal fish species. Surface and bottom temperatures recorded at each sampling station are also presented. Appendices provide station data, species listings, and detailed results of analyses of abundance and biological data of the sampled populations.