Living Marine Ecosystems
Conserving marine resources, thus ensuring sustainable harvests and healthy populations in the future
The present era of rapid demographic and environmental change has put increased demand on sources of protein from the sea. As many traditional fisheries have been depleted, alternate species and geographic areas have become targets of capture fisheries. At the same time, enhancement and culture of shellfish and marine fish stocks have become more economically attractive. Scientists and managers are paying more attention to the impacts of large-scale oceanic and environmental factors on fish populations, as well as the intersection of those populations with human activities. Many WSG research projects have been initiated to explore these topics.
- Accounting for Spatial Structure in Stock Assessments: the Case of Pacific Sardine (Punt)
- An Individual-Based, Quantitative Genetic Model for Investigating Local Adaptation and Population Viability in Connected Populations of Sockeye Salmon (Hauser)
- Estimating Population Growth and Interspecies Interaction Parameters with Spatial Replication (Ruesink)
- Evaluating Pacific Groundfish Schooling Behavior and Untrawlable Refuges Using Multi-Species Mixture Models and Data from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Punt)
- Evaluating Stock Assessment Methods and Management Strategies for Spatially Heterogeneous Fish Stocks (Hilborn)
- Glass Sponge Reef Habitat in the Pacific Northwest (Johnson)
- Re-colonization of the Upper Cedar River by Anadromous Salmonids (Quinn)
- Recovery and Performance of Complex Marine Exopolymers in the Cold (Deming)
- Factors Influencing Recruitment Variability in Estuarine Bivalves (Ruesink)
- Linking Genetic Variation, Selection and Adaptation in Chinook Salmon: Next Generation Genome Sequencing (Naish)
- Non-Invasive Physiological Monitoring of Southern Resident Killer Whales (Wasser)
- Enhancing Public Understanding of Resource Issues (Marine Advisory Services Staff)
- Climate-Change Effects on Steelhead in North Pacific Marine Ecosystems (Myers)
- Developing Genomic Biomarkers for Assessing Fish Reproductive Health (Young)
- Populations and Spatial Dynamics of Endangered Baleen Whales in the North Pacific (VanBlaricom)
- Geochemical and Ecological Consequences of Disturbances Associated with Geoduck Aquaculture Operations in Washington (VanBlaricom)
- Cultured-Wild Geoduck Interactions (Friedman)
- Resilience of Soft-Sediment Communities after Geoduck Harvest in Samish Bay, Washington (Ruesink)