Statistically based sampling strategies for Gulf of Alaska ecosystem trawl survey monitoring
By: Paul J. Anderson, B. Alan Johnson, J.E. Blackburn
Contributors: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
Publisher: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Anchorage, Alaska
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Animal populations; Statistical methods; Environmental sampling; Sampling (Statistics); Zoological surveys; Trawls and trawling
Other titles: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project final report
Description: Historical data from the western Gulf of Alaska was examined in order to optimize sampling efforts for future small mesh trawl surveys. A model of species abundance and spatial distribution was constructed for assessing the level of sampling required to detect species abundance change within precision limits of various sampling levels in individual bays (Alitak Bay, Chignik Bay, Castle Bay, Kiliuda Bay, Marmot Bay, Pavlof Bay, and Ugak Bay).
Notes: Authors affiliated with Kodiak Fisheries Research Center, National Marine Fisheries Service; Argile Consulting; and Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game.

"EVOSTC Restoration Project 00493".

"May 2003."

Figure 1 omitted.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-33).

Final report.

Also available in electronic format via Internet.

This item was harvested from the Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Monitoring Project web site:  http://www.gem.state.ak.us/Store/Final%5FReports/286.pdf in Jan. 2006 for the Alaska State Publications Program; remote access available via StaticURL.