Living Marine Resources
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.
Resource Conservation
Research Goal: Conservation of living marine resources to ensure that healthy populations are sustained into the future.
- Climate-Change Effects On Steelhead in North Pacific Marine Ecosystems
- Environmental Time Series in Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Models
- Developing Genomic Biomarkers for Assessing Fish Reproductive Health
- Re-colonization of the Upper Cedar River by Anadromous Salmonids
Sustainable Management
Research Goal: Provide for the sustainable harvest of fish and other living marine resources.
- Evaluation of the Impact of Marine Protected Areas on Stock Assessment-Based Fisheries Management
- A Spatially Explicit, Multi-Species Assessment of Bering Sea Walleye Pollock
- Larval Rockfish Dispersal Rates from Oceanography, Genetics, and Otolith Markers
Aquaculture, Stock Restoration
Research Goal: Restoration and enhancement of natural and cultured stocks of fish and shellfish to support biodiversity and sustainable use.
- Culturing Native Marine Shellfish: Effect of Geoduck Life History Parameters on Sustainability
- Pilot-scale Assessment of a Water Depuration Process for Vibrio in Gulf Coast Oysters
- Understanding Pathogenesis and Transmission Dynamics of Oyster Herpes Virus
- Tools to Remediate Summer Mortality Disease Losses in Pacific Oysters
- Locating the Genomic Regions Underlying Adaptive Divergence in Chinook Salmon Life History Traits
- Re-colonization of the Upper Cedar River by Anadromous Salmonids
- Populations and Spatial Dynamics of Endangered Baleen Whales in the North Pacific