Are the low post oil-spill recruitment patterns unique to PWS, or are they are within the expected range of historical and regional natural variability?
2006 Backwater Research Report to the National Marine Fisheries Service: Pacific Herring Recruitment Time Series from Prince William Sound, Alaska, Compared to Herring Elsewhere on the West Coast of North America: Is Low Recruitment a Problematic Constraint in Prince William Sound?
This project examines historical catch records and impacts of the herring reduction plants that operated in Alaska in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as the biological surveys of herring going back to the early 20th century. This project is one element of a larger NPRB project to synthesize herring-related information gathered from the archaeological, ethno-ecological, historical European, climatic, and other records. Published results from this herring synthesis project include:
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