The Gulf of Alaska sustains huge populations of marine animals. The strongest currents found along the coasts of North America flow here, dispersing sea life and nutrients from deeper water across the shelf. Bays and estuaries become nursery habitats for young fishes, and feeding grounds for seabirds and marine mammals. For more background on the Gulf of Alaska, see the GOA IERP Implementation Plan.

 

Gulf of Alaska Project

The Gulf of Alaska Project is an integrated study that involves oceanographers, fisheries biologists and modelers to look at the gauntlet faced by commercially important young-of-the-year groundfishes, specifically walleye pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific ocean perch, sablefish and arrowtooth flounder. MORE