Using Stomach Contents of Predatory Fish to Sample Forage Fishes in Kachemak Bay and Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska: 1995-1998

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Gulf of Alaska Data Portal
• Subjects: Alaska; Barren Islands; capelin; Cook Inlet; EVOS; EVOSTC; Exxon Valdez; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; forage fish; invertebrates; halibut; Kachemak Bay; oil spill; Pacific halibut; Pacific sand lance; Ammodytes hexapterus; Hippoglossus stenolepis; Mallotus villosus; hexapterus; stenolepis; villosus; Pacific; Kachemak
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/df35j.8.20

Evaluating the influence of fluctuating prey populations (e.g. forage fish) is critical to understanding the recovery of seabirds injured by the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill; however, it is expensive to conduct annual hydroacoustic and trawl surveys to assess forage fish stocks over broad regions. Thi...