Evaluating the Efficacy of Trawl Exclusion Zones by Estimating Local Atka Mackerel Abundance and Movement Patterns in the Central and Eastern Aleutian Islands

• Published in: Marine and Coastal Fisheries
• Main Author: Susanne F. McDermott
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Fisheries Society 2016
• Subjects: Atka; Kiska; Amchitka; Amchitka Island; Kiska Island; Aleutian Island; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/19425120.2015.1135218

Atka Mackerel Pleurogrammus monopterygius is the most abundant commercially exploited groundfish in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. It is also the predominant prey of the endangered Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus in the Aleutians Islands range. In 1992, trawl exclusion zones (TEZs) that ranged fr...