VIDEO: Strom conducts research on Alaska fisheries

Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/05/2015 - 9:57am

The Gulf of Alaska supports some tremendously important fisheries.

Suzanne Strom, a senior marine scientist at Western Washington University's Shannon Point Marine Center, is among a team of scientists working on an $18-million research project to study five commercially and ecologically important fish species and the Gulf of Alaska ecosystem that supports them.

Specifically, the Gulf of Alaska Integrated Ecosystem Research Project is studying the gauntlet faced by walleye pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific ocean perch, sablefish and arrowtooth flounder during their first year of life as they are transported from offshore areas, where they are spawned, to nearshore nursery areas.