Coral in Alaska: distribution, abundance, and species associations. Hydrobiologia 471:19–27
Abstract- To help identify fishery management actions that minimize the adverse impacts of fishing activities on corals in Alaska, the distribution and abundance of corals were analyzed based on trawl survey data collected during 1975- 1998. We also examined the species of commercially managed fish...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.200.8816 http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/abl/marfish/pdfs/heifetz_coral_symposium_paper_wp9_col.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract- To help identify fishery management actions that minimize the adverse impacts of fishing activities on corals in Alaska, the distribution and abundance of corals were analyzed based on trawl survey data collected during 1975- 1998. We also examined the species of commercially managed fish that are associated with coral. Soft corals, primarily Gersemia sp., were the most frequently encountered corals in the Bering Sea. In the Aleutian Islands gorgonian corals, primarily in the genera Callogorgia, Primnoa, Paragorgia, Fanellia (=Callogorgia), Thouarella, and Arthrogorgia were the most common corals. In the Gulf of Alaska, gorgonian corals, primarily in the genera Callogorgia and Primnoa, and cup corals, primarily AScleractinia |
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