Aerial Surveys of Juvenile Herring, Prince William Sound, 2010-2017, EVOS Herring Program

• Main Author: Scott Pegau
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace
• Subjects: Thaleichthys pacificus; eulachon; Mallotus villosus; capelin, capelan; Ammodytes hexapterus; Pacific sand lance; Clupea pallasii; Pacific herring, arenque del Pacífico; distribution; capelin; sand lance; juvenile; pacific herring; forage fish; line transects; aerial surveys; Prince William Sound; Exxon Valdez; oil spill; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; EVOSTC; EVOS Herring; EVOS Herring Survey; EVOS Herring Research and Monitoring; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC; summer; OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA; CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > ALASKA; Evelyn; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Orca; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431/rw1k111

These data are part of the Herring Program of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (EVOSTC), which is a multi-faceted study to determine why herring populations in Prince William Sound (PWS) remain depressed since the early 1990s. Flying 1000 feet in the air, following the contours of the Prin...