The BSFRF continues cooperative research with NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center, studying the growth rates of crab species to inform better predictions related to crab abundance. In April 2017, the BSFRF chartered a vessel for the collection of juvenile...
The BSFRF is conducting research with NOAA Fisheries looking at net selectivity of important crab species between the standard NOAA survey gear, the 82-112 otter trawl, and the BSFRF Nephrops trawl, a smaller trawl net designed to maintain bottom contact. Comparison...
This is a multi-year survey project to collect Bristol Bay red king crab (BBRKC) pre-recruit information with improved accuracy and precision to detect size-sex modes and potentially to estimate mortality of BBRKC per year. Objectives of this work are to complete a...
This cooperative research effort was led by NMFS with support from BSFRF and ADF&G. It included the placement of specially trained observers on crab vessels during the snow crab fishery in the winters of 2011 and 2012 to collect information on the physical...
The main goal of this research project was to improve understanding of the distribution of male and female RKC outside of and near the edge of the standard Eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey area in Bristol Bay (the Black Hills and surrounding nearshore grounds)....
