Western Alaska Salmon Stock Identification Program (WASSIP): Cooperation Among Stakeholders to Improve Understanding

• Main Authors: Of Alaska Fisheries, Erica Chenoweth, Eric Volk, Bill Templin, Bering Strait, Point Hope
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Norton Sound; Sockeye; Yukon; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.640.9722; http://www.npafc.org/new/publications/Newsletter/NL36/Newsletter36 (26-32).pdf

Program (WASSIP) is a unique collaboration among stakeholders and scientists to address long-standing questions about harvest patterns of chum and sockeye salmon in western Alaska fisheries. Born from frustration with widely divergent regulatory decisions based on limited and controversial data, WAS...