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North Pacific Fishery Management Council: Research Priorities

Research Priorities Query and Records List

	ID	Title	Council Priority	SSC Priority	Research Status	Ecosystem Area	Related Council Action	Plan Teams	Keywords	Has Duplicates	Joint Groundfish PT Priority	Crab PT Priority	Scallop PT Priority
Approved	228	Monitor subsistence harvest (patterns, norms, quantities) in communities affected by Council actions.	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management, Anthropology, Communities, Crab, Groundfish, Subsistence	False	Important	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	611	Collection of socio-economic information	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	General	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT, Scallop PT	Economics, Anthropology	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	226	Monitor the economic effects from fishery policy changes on coastal communities.	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Economic impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management, Economics, Anthropology, Communities, Crab, Groundfish	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	186	Collect and maintain zooplankton and meroplankton biomass and community composition time series	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Ecosystem impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Urgent	Strategic
Approved	187	Continue to develop and improve the use of indicator-based ecosystem assessments throughout the range of the Council's managed ...	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	190	Collect and maintain time series of ocean pH	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Ecosystem impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes	False	Urgent	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	192	Collect, analyze, and monitor diet information	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Basic research on trophic interactions	False	Important	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	144	District-wide survey for demersal shelf rockfish in Southeast Alaska	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Rockfish	False	Important
Approved	145	Continuation of State and Federal annual and biennial surveys	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Crab, Forage Species, Groundfish, Scallop	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Pending	150	Maintain the core biological and oceanographic data (e.g., biophysical moorings, diet data, zooplankton, age 0 surveys, benthic ...	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Ecosystem impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Stock Assessment, Crab, Groundfish	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Urgent
Approved	159	Evaluate interactions between fisheries and pinnipeds	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions		Protected Species	False
Approved	160	Assess vital rates of Steller sea lions	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Steller sea lion protection		Protected Species	False
Approved	161	Assess the health of Stellar sea lions	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Steller sea lion protection		Protected Species	False
Approved	165	Conduct routine surveys of subsistence in the northern Bering Sea and Arctic Ocean	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Bering Sea, Arctic	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Anthropology, Humans, Communities, Subsistence	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	612	Maintain observer program	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Observer Program	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT, Scallop PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	552	Expand statewide scallop survey	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Stock Assessment	False			Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Pending	735	Fishery monitoring and catch accounting	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT, Scallop PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Bycatch Issues, Statistics	False	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	207	Collect and analyze fishery effort and observer data for scallops	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Stock Assessment	False			Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	209	Continue to collect guided angler sector data for the halibut fishery	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea	Halibut allocations		Fishery Management	False
Approved	249	Monitor the movement of Steller sea lions and northern fur seals	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions		Protected Species, Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes	False
Approved	218	Survey capability for forage fish	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Critical Ongoing Monitoring	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Important
Approved	171	Acquire basic life history information (e.g., natural mortality, growth, size at maturity) for data-poor stocks	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT, Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important	Urgent	Important
Approved	172	Develop and validate aging methods for crabs.	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Stock Assessment	False		Important
Approved	173	Expand studies to identify stock and management boundaries	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Scallop PT	Stock Assessment	False		Important	Urgent
Approved	217	Impact of fisheries on benthic habitat and trophic interactions	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Habitat Issues	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishing Effects on Habitat, Crab, Marine Mammal	False	Important	Important
Approved	227	Improve estimation of fishery interactions with non-target groundfish, and prohibited species.	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Bycatch reduction	Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Urgent
Approved	174	Develop spatially explicit stock assessment models	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important	Important
Approved	176	Refine methods to incorporate uncertainty into harvest strategies	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Important	Urgent
Approved	178	Develop a framework and collect economic information	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Economic impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Fishery Management	False	Urgent	Urgent
Approved	179	Conduct pre- and post-implementation studies of the benefits and costs, and their distribution, associated with dedicated ...	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Economic impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Fishery Management, Crab, Groundfish, Halibut	False	Urgent	Urgent
Approved	189	Develop stock-specific ecosystem indicators and incorporate into stock assessments	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Crab, Groundfish	False	Urgent	Urgent
Approved	197	Develop methodologies to monitor for new/emerging diseases and/or parasites among exploited species and higher trophic levels ...	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Strategic	Important
Approved	202	Improve estimation of total removals	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Important	Urgent
Approved	203	Improve discard mortality rate estimates for scallops	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Stock Assessment	False			Urgent
Approved	146	Improve surveys in untrawlable habitat, particularly for rockfish, Atka mackerel, and sculpins	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Baseline Habitat Assessment, Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Function of Habitat, Habitat Mapping, SE Alaska, Groundfish, Rockfish	False	Important
Approved	148	Spatial distribution, habitat requirements, and movement of crabs relative to life history events and fishing	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False		Urgent
Approved	155	Evaluation of salmon PSC mitigation measures	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Bycatch reduction	Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Urgent
Approved	156	Improve knowledge for salmon PSC impact assessment	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Bycatch reduction	Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Urgent
Approved	157	Improve methods of monitoring fishery interactions	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Observer Program	Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management, Halibut, Charter, Groundfish	False	Urgent
Approved	162	Quantify killer whale predation of Steller sea lions (M)	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Aleutian Islands	Steller sea lion protection		Protected Species	False
Approved	166	Estimate scallop stock abundance	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Ecosystem Modeling, Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Fishing Effects on Habitat	False			Strategic
Approved	167	Alternative approaches to acquire fishery-independent abundance data for for unsurveyed crab stocks.	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False		Urgent
Approved	170	Quantitative reproductive index for the BSAI crab stocks	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False		Important
Approved	533	Explore optimal sampling strategies and geospatial approaches for time series of survey data	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Stock Assessment, Crab, Groundfish	False	Important	Urgent
Approved	534	Continue to develop technical interaction model for BSAI MSE	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Pending	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	631	Genetics of Northern Bering Sea Pacific cod	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Biology - Genetics	False	Urgent
Approved	692	Conduct ethnographic research and collect information on the indirect effects of the Area 2C and 3A charter and commercial ...	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Gulf of Alaska	Halibut allocations		Anthropology, Halibut, Charter	False
Approved	711	Identify best practices for catch estimation for large bycatch species	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment, Bycatch Issues, Statistics	False	Urgent
Approved	712	Gap Analyses on loss of biological samples due to implementation of EM	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Observer Program	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Urgent
Approved	691	Develop comparable measures of net value, total value, and economic impacts for the Area 2C and 3A charter and commercial ...	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Gulf of Alaska	Halibut allocations		Economics, Halibut, Charter	False
Approved	556	Re-evaluate the location and temporal structure of Herring Savings Areas	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Gulf of Alaska	Bycatch reduction	Joint Groundfish PT	Bycatch Issues, Pollock	False	Important
Approved	731	Norton Sound Red King Crab case study	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments	Crab PT	Crab	False		Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	208	Explore factors that contribute to year class strength for managed resources	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Pending	Important
Approved	211	Benefits and costs of directed halibut catch and halibut PSC utilization	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Halibut allocations		Fishery Management	False
Approved	213	Assess the impact of the displacement of the groundfish fleet on Northern fur seals	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions		Protected Species	False
Approved	235	Investigate gear modifications and changes in fishing practices to reduce bycatch and PSC	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Bycatch reduction	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Protected Species	False	Urgent	Important
Approved	239	Assess the extent of the distribution of corals	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Joint Groundfish PT	Habitat Mapping	False	Strategic
Approved	364	Updated sperm whale stock assessment	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions		Protected Species	False
Approved	365	Retrospective analysis of the impact of Chinook PSC avoidance measures on communities of western Alaska	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Bycatch reduction		Protected Species	False
Approved	366	Continue to investigate time variation and the shape of fishery and survey selectivity models	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem Modeling	False	Important	Urgent
Approved	381	Effects of changes to the observer program	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Observer Program	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Statistics	False	Urgent
Approved	383	Determine quantitative indicators of spatial structure, particular for walleye pollock and Pacific cod	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment, Pollock	False	Important
Approved	385	Study Pacific halibut PSC, bycatch, and discard behavior in fisheries	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Halibut PSC avoidance		Protected Species	False
Approved	388	Study temporal and spatial patterns in size-at-age of Pacific halibut	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Halibut allocations		Stock Assessment, Halibut	False
Approved	491	Assess dependence and impacts of halibut management actions on communities	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments		Halibut	False
Approved	492	Investigate factors underlying fishery responses to halibut PSC caps	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Bycatch reduction		Fishery Management, Bycatch Issues, Halibut	False
Approved	493	Examine the relative importance of historical closed areas in the vicinity of the Pribilof Islands as juvenile halibut nursery ...	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Bering Sea	Habitat Issues		Function of Habitat, Biology - Early Life History, Pribilofs, Halibut	False
Approved	531	Collect growth data for Bering Sea crab stocks	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Harvest specifications		Stock Assessment	False
Approved	551	Estimate scallop survey catchability	Urgent	Urgent	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Stock Assessment	False			Urgent
Approved	592	Maturity estimates for Bering Sea and Aleutian Island crab stocks	Urgent	Urgent	No action	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Stock Assessment, Crab	False		Urgent
Approved	154	Pacific cod stock assessment for the Aleutian Islands	Urgent	Urgent	Underway	Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	214	Evaluate the impact of seabird bycatch in fisheries on bird populations, and methods to reduce	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions		Protected Species	False
Approved	216	Assess whether Bering Sea canyons are habitats of particular concern for managed resources	Important	Important	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Habitat Issues	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Evaluate habitats of particular concern	False	Strategic	Important
Approved	219	Monitor skate egg case concentrations every 2 to 3 years using non-invasive research design, such as in situ observation ...	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Strategic
Approved	220	Research on survey analysis techniques for species that exhibit patchy distributions	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Important	Important
Approved	222	Improve estimates of natural mortality (M) for Pacific cod.	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	180	Economic, social, and cultural valuation research on protected species	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments		Protected Species	False
Approved	182	Evaluate the effectiveness of current and alternative Council PSC/bycatch reduction initiatives	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Bycatch reduction	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Bycatch Issues, Crab, Halibut, Salmon	False	Urgent	Important
Approved	183	Research the role of habitat in population dynamics and ecosystem processes	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Function of Habitat	False	Important	Important
Approved	184	Evaluate efficacy of habitat closure areas and habitat recovery	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Function of Habitat	False	Strategic	Important
Approved	188	Develop indicator-based ecosystem assessments for AI (in progress), GOA, Arctic.	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Urgent
Approved	204	Tagging studies of Aleutian Islands Pacific cod and Atka mackerel	Important	Important	Partially underway	Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	205	Age determination methods for Pacific cod, Pacific sleeper sharks, and spiny dogfish	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	206	Biomass indices and alternate methodologies for lowest tier groundfish species	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Strategic
Approved	147	Life history research on data poor or non-recovering crab stocks	Important	Important	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Stock Assessment, Fishery Management, Biology - Early Life History, Crab, Crab	False		Urgent
Approved	149	Improve handling mortality rate estimates for crab	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Stock Assessment	False		Strategic
Approved	151	Develop a spatially-explicit model for BSAI pollock	Important	Important	Underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	153	Study vertical distribution of Pacific cod to better understand catchability	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	158	Research ecosystem indicators and their thresholds for inclusion in ecosystem-level management strategy evaluation.	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Urgent	Strategic
Approved	163	Conduct routine fish, crab, and oceanographic surveys in the Arctic Ocean	Important	Important	Partially underway	Arctic	Arctic FMP	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Baseline Habitat Assessment	False	Urgent	Important
Approved	164	Effects of trawling on crab and benthic communities	Important	Important	Underway	Bering Sea	Habitat Issues	Crab PT	Fishing Effects on Habitat	False		Important
Approved	169	Studies on factors that affect catchability particularly for King, Snow, and Tanner crab	Important	Important	Underway	Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False		Important
Approved	451	Arrowtooth flounder stock structure and movement	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Strategic
Approved	511	Computerized image analysis of current camera sled data for scallops	Important	Important	Completed	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Scallop	False			Urgent
Approved	614	Expansion of catch in areas database to include BSAI and GOA crab and scallop fishing.	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Crab PT, Scallop PT	Fishing Effects on Habitat	False		Important	Important
Approved	615	Evaluate the interactions between fisheries and killer whales and sperm whales	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment, Fishery Management, Groundfish, Halibut, Marine Mammal	False	Important
Approved	671	Characterize expected changes in benthic production due to climate change	Important	Important	No action	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT	Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Crab	False		Important
Approved	513	Evaluate extent and importance of parasites in scallop populations	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea	Ecosystem impacts	Scallop PT	Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Scallop	False			Important
Approved	713	Evaluate the spillover in the BSAI Pacifc cod fishery from GOA heat-wave related cod TAC reduction	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment, Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Groundfish	False	Important
Approved	714	Evaluate impacts on Northern Bering Sea Communities from Pacific cod and pollock shifts northward	Important	Important	No action	Bering Sea	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments	Joint Groundfish PT	Economics, Anthropology	False	Important
Approved	715	Physiological responses of crab to climate stressors	Important	Important	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT	Biology - Early Life History, Crab, Crab	False		Important
Approved	367	Continue to improve crab stock assessment methodology with respect to uncertainty	Important	Important	Underway	Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications		Stock Assessment, Crab	False
Approved	553	Population structure of scallops	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Stock Assessment, Scallop	False			Important
Approved	554	Molt and mate timing for Norton Sound red king crab	Important	Important	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Stock Assessment	False		Important
Approved	555	Herring genetics on overwintering and spawning grounds	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska	Bycatch reduction	Joint Groundfish PT	Bycatch Issues	False	Important
Approved	210	Develop bioeconomic models	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Important
Approved	212	Develop methods to estimate sea lion abundance	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Steller sea lion protection		Protected Species	False
Approved	230	Examine social and economic interactions between coastal communities and commercial and recreational fisheries	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management, Crab, Groundfish	False	Important	Important
Approved	231	Retrospective analysis of the impact of Chinook salmon PSC avoidance measures on the BSAI pollock fishery	Important	Important	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Bycatch reduction	Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Urgent
Approved	237	Improved habitat maps	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Habitat Mapping	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	240	Develop a multivariate index of the climate forcing of the Bering Sea shelf	Important	Important	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Important	Important
Approved	241	Develop bottom and water column temperature database and indices	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Important	Critical Ongoing Monitoring
Approved	245	Assess the impact of increases in recovering whale populations on lower trophic level energy pathways	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Strategic
Approved	246	Cooperative research efforts to supplement existing at-sea surveys that provide seasonal, species-specific information on ...	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts		Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Protected Species	False
Approved	362	Monitoring potential water quality impacts on scallops	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Scallop PT	Baseline Habitat Assessment	False			Important
Approved	363	Area-specific variability in scallop population processes	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Function of Habitat	False			Important
Approved	382	Investigate in situ methods of tagging species that experience barotrauma	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Strategic
Approved	250	Conduct ecosystem structure studies	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Basic research on trophic interactions	False	Pending	Strategic
Approved	251	Modeling studies of ecosystem productivity in the different FMP areas	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Scallop PT, Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem Modeling, Crab, Groundfish	False	Strategic	Important	Strategic
Approved	387	Determine effects of migration on the Pacific halibut population and management	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Halibut allocations		Protected Species	False
Approved	389	Investigate ecosystem effects and inter-species interactions of halibut	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea	Halibut allocations	Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem Modeling, Halibut	False	Important
Approved	431	Develop tools for analyzing coastal community vulnerability to fisheries management changes	Important	Important	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Important	Important
Approved	472	Evaluate causes of variable meat size, undersized meats in scallops	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other	Scallop PT	Fishery Management, Function of Habitat, SE Alaska, Scallop	False			Important
Approved	532	Natural mortality estimation for crab stocks	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications		Stock Assessment	False
Approved	453	Cod density in untrawlable areas in the AI	Important	Important	Underway	Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	454	Sculpin natural mortality, seasonal food habits	Important	Important	No action	Gulf of Alaska	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Strategic
Approved	455	Shark aging, size at maturity, natural mortality	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important
Approved	571	Age validation for scallop shells	Important	Important	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	General	Scallop PT	Stock Assessment, Scallop	False			Important
Approved	215	Determine potential impacts of fishing activities on marine mammals	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions		Protected Species	False
Approved	221	Collect maturity scans during fisheries that target spawning fish	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Strategic
Approved	223	Develop and evaluate global climate change models (GCM) or down-scaled climate variability scenarios to assess impacts to ...	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT, Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Strategic	Important	Important
Approved	224	Climate and oceanographic information covering a wider range of seasons	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT, Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment	False	Strategic	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	225	Develop projection models to evaluate management strategies under varying climate, ecological, and economic conditions and ...	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Other	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Stock Assessment, Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes, Ecology/Modeling, Economics, Communities	False	Important	Urgent
Approved	175	Develop age-structured models for scallop assessment	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Scallop PT	Stock Assessment	False			Important
Approved	177	Conduct prospective and retrospective analyses of changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of fishing effort in response ...	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management, Bycatch Issues	False	Important	Important
Approved	191	Assess whether changes in pH and temperature would affect managed species, upper level predators, and lower trophic levels. ...	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes	False	Important	Important
Approved	194	Identification and integration of archived data	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	General	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	196	Genetics, population dynamics, and management implications of hybridization between Tanner and snow crab in the Bering Sea. ...	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Bering Sea	Harvest specifications	Crab PT	Stock Assessment	False		Important
Approved	198	Initiate and expand non-market valuation research of habitat, ecosystem services, and passive use considerations	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Other	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	200	Monitor contaminant flux and loads in lower and higher trophic levels, and assess potential for impact on vital rates.	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	613	Maintain and update coupled biophysical projections for the North Pacific	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Ecosystem impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Ecosystem Modeling	False	Strategic	Important
Approved	732	LK and TK data collection	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Fishery Dependent Community Assessments		Anthropology	False
Approved	733	Climate change: Develop predictive tools to inform management options related to resilience and adaptation.	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Ecosystem impacts		Ecosystem Modeling, Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False
Approved	734	Conduct an assessment of the Council’s Bering Sea management with respect to EBFM best practices.	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Bering Sea	Ecosystem impacts		Ecosystem Modeling	False
Approved	494	Investigate skate egg concentration areas as EFH and HAPC	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska	Habitat Issues	Joint Groundfish PT	Function of Habitat	False	Strategic
Approved	193	Improve species identification	Strategic	Strategic	Completed	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Important
Approved	233	Develop an ongoing database of product inventories	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Economic impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	234	Analyze current determinants of demand for principal seafood products	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Economic impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Fishery Management	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	238	Develop a GIS relational database for habitat, to include a historical time series of the spatial intensity of interactions ...	Strategic	Strategic	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT, Scallop PT	Habitat Mapping	False	Pending	Important	Pending
Approved	242	Collect and maintain primary production time series	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Important	Strategic
Approved	244	Collect and maintain time-series data on the community composition, production and biomass of benthic invertebrate and vertebrate ...	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Crab PT, Joint Groundfish PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance.	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	247	Assess the relative importance of non-commercially exploited species to human communities	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Economic impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Ecosystem indicator development and maintenance. , Crab, Groundfish	False	Strategic	Strategic
Approved	248	Measure and monitor large scale fish composition	Strategic	Strategic	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Joint Groundfish PT	Environmental Influences on Ecosystem Processes	False	Strategic
Approved	368	Develop a simulation model of Steller sea lion fishery interactions	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Steller sea lion protection		Protected Species	False
Approved	386	Investigate long term effects of fishing on Pacific halibut	Strategic	Strategic	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Halibut allocations		Fish and Fisheries Monitoring, Biology - Genetics, Halibut	False
Approved	361	Effects of Ocean Acidification on Scallops	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Habitat Issues	Scallop PT	Baseline Habitat Assessment	False			Urgent
Approved	390	Population status of AI harbor seals	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Aleutian Islands	Other mammal/seabird interactions		Marine Mammal	False
Approved	452	Dusky Rockfish and Shortspine Thornyhead genetics research for improved population structure	Strategic	Strategic	No action	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Arctic	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT	Stock Assessment, Biology - Genetics	False	Strategic
Approved	535	Development and evaluation of data poor and data moderate methods	Strategic	Strategic	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Harvest specifications	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Stock Assessment	False	Important	Strategic
Approved	536	Evaluate incorporation of climate change impacts into stock assessments	Strategic	Strategic	Underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Ecosystem impacts	Joint Groundfish PT, Crab PT	Ecosystem Modeling, Stock Assessment, Crab, Groundfish	False	Important	Strategic
Approved	537	Identification of best practices for long term storage of ageing structures.	Strategic	Strategic	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands	Pending	Joint Groundfish PT	Fish and Fisheries Monitoring	False	Strategic
Approved	651	Thermally marked otolith project to support PSC salmon stock composition in the Gulf of Alaska	Pending	Pending	Partially underway	Gulf of Alaska	Salmon bycatch		Bycatch Issues, Salmon	False

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