NPRB Proposal Summary Page NPRB Use Only

• Main Authors: Dr. Suzanne, L. Strom, Shannon Point
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.416.4217; http://doc.nprb.org/web/emc/nprb_modeling_prjs/613 Napp, Hopcroft, Strom.pdf

The eastern Bering Sea supports productive commercial stocks that generate more than 50 % of all fish and shellfish landings in the United States. These fisheries employ local and itinerant fishers, processors, and distributors within and outside of the region. The Bering Sea is also directly, or indirectly, the source of over 25 million pounds of subsistence foods used by nearly 55,000 local residents, primarily Alaska Natives. As the Bering Sea responds to variations in climate, its ability to support the resources on which people depend may change. This proposal seeks three years of funding to understand how lower trophic levels are responding to the observed changes in the eastern Bering Sea. Funds are requested to support NOAA participation in a component of the Bering Sea Ecosystem (BEST) project. This component will: 1) yield directly intercomparable grazing and growth rates of micro- and mesozooplankton (across a natural range of temperature variation), adding to our knowledge of low temperature effects on numerous planktonic rate processes, 2) provide estimates of Q10 differences in grazing, growth and egg production for zooplankton, through temperature manipulation experiments, across multiple trophic levels and functional groups, and 3)