of the Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluations

• Main Authors: Jennifer L. Boldt, Kerim Y. Aydin, Patricia Livingston, Anne B. Hollowed
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.360.1259; http://www.pices.int/publications/scientific_reports/Report33/Rep33_p81_Status_Bering.pdf

Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC). The appendix includes three sections: (1) an ecosystem assessment, (2) updated status and trend indices, and (3) ecosystem-based management indices and information for the Bering Sea (BS), Aleutian Islands (AI) and the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) ecosystems. The purpose of the first section, Ecosystem Assessment, is to summarize historical climate and fishing effects from an ecosystem perspective and to provide an assessment of the possible future effects of climate and fishing on ecosystem structure and function. The purpose of the second section, Ecosystem Status Indicators, is to supply new information and updates on the status and