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Meagan Abele – Bigger is better: Enhancing the catch composition of sablefish in the U.S. West Coast groundfish bottom trawl fishery
Alexandra Avila – Just going with the flow? How nearshore currents affect larval dispersal and genetic connectivity of china rockfish (Sebastes nebulosus) along Oregon and Washington Coasts
Diana Baetscher – Genetic species identification of larval rockfishes from the Gulf of Alaska
Aaron Baldwin – The slimiest catch: The biology of black hagfish in Southeastern Alaska
Steven Barbeaux – Ecosystem-linked assessment model for Gulf of Alaska Pacific cod to assess climate change driven changes in productivity
Cheryl Barnes – Climate-informed models benefit hindcasting but present challenges when forecasting species-habitat associations
Bonnie Basnett – Geographic and ontogenetic variation in the trophic ecology of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) along the U.S. West Coast
Irina Benson – Fourier transform near infrared spectroscopy of otoliths coupled with machine learning to improve fish age predictions
Alicia Billings – Using over a decade of stomach contents to characterize Pacific hake prey consumption in the California Current
Joseph Bizzarro – The importance of corals and sponges as groundfish habitat off Central and Southern California
Catalina Burch – Temperature effects on patterns of prey occurrence in Gulf of Alaska groundfish diets
Matthew Cheng – Incorporating dynamic fleet structure in stock assessment models: Accounting for a rapidly developing pot fishery for Alaska sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria)
Laura Coleman – Pacific cod in Southeast Alaska: challenges of managing a data limited fishery
Claude Dykstra – Letting Pacific halibut off the hook: relating capture and physiological conditions to viability and survival of fish discarded from commercial hook and line gear
Philina English – Good, bad, or ugly? Identifying the impacts of warming waters on British Columbia groundfish productivity for the purpose of developing risk-equivalent management advice
Craig Faunce – A critical overview of the fisheries monitoring design in the Alaska federal groundfish and halibut fisheries
Austin Flanigan – Assessing spawning behavior at the northern extreme of Pacific halibut
Peter Frey – Comparing different tools for surveying groundfish in untrawlable habitats
Daniel Goethel – A Spatially Explicit Stock Assessment for Alaskan Sablefish to Better Understand Spatiotemporal Dynamics
Esther Goldstein – A spectrum of life history information: Spectroscopy approaches expand data collection capabilities for fisheries research and management
Dana Haggarty – Impacts of boat noise and the COVID-19 anthropause on fish calling behavior
Madison Hall – Collecting rockfish data in a cooperative survey to improve assessment models in the Gulf of Alaska
John Harms – The potential for resource impacts from long-term fishery monitoring surveys
Peter Hulson – Balancing survey workload and assessment needs
Melissa Head – Decadal-scale reproductive variability in Pacific hake and why it’s important to capture for sustainable management
James Ianelli – Should we continue to work in the “Best Assessment” paradigm?
Derek Jackson – Artificial illumination of trawl gear components to reduce Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) bycatch in the U.S. west coast bottom trawl fishery
Tom Laidig – Measuring fish reactions to survey vehicles
Wes Larson – Genetic stock structure of multiple rockfish species across the West Coast: chaos reigns supreme?
Robert Levine – Direct observations of the trans-boundary movement of walleye pollock in the northwestern Bering Sea
Katlyn Lockhart – A tale of two surveys: Comparing two bottom trawl surveys to assess the abundance and distribution of young-of-the-year groundfishes in nearshore soft-sediment habitats
Mark Lomeli – Testing of hook sizes and appendages to reduce yelloweye rockfish bycatch in a Pacific halibut longline fishery
Dayv Lowry – Investigating a shark diversity hotspot in South Puget Sound: Findings from year one+
Scott Marion – Assessing impacts of trawling on seafloor habitats: A long-term study capitalizing on a natural experiment in the re-opened trawl Rockfish Conservation Area off Oregon
Beth Matta – The Pacific sleeper shark: unraveling an enigma
Mackenzie Mazur – Evaluating the impact of age data in a Petrale sole stock assessment
Julie Nielsen – Seasonal movement patterns of Pacific cod in Alaska indicate connectivity between management areas
Corey Niles – Current management issue: thinking about policy and stock boundaries
Robert Pacunski – Research across an international border: Partnering to assess a shared at-risk species
Nicholas Perkins – Diving deep into the Network: remotely operated vehicle surveys reveal protection effects and regional trajectories of recovery across California’s Marine Protected Area Network
Todd Phillips – Defining and delineating groundfish stocks for fishery management
Josep Planas – Improved understanding of seasonal reproductive development in female Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) guiding accurate revision of maturity estimates
Katie Pierson – Can management keep up? The need for adaptation in a changing world
Melanie Rickett – The Development of the Trawl Electronic Monitoring Program in the North Pacific.
Suzanne Romain – Challenges associated with integration of machine vision algorithms into catch accounting programs
Chris Rooper – Ecology and Management of North Pacific Armorhead in International Waters of the North Pacific
Claire Rosemond – Black Rockfish maturity influenced by marine heat waves
Jamey Selleck – Historical habitat and catch reconstruction modeling informing conservation management of ESA-listed rockfishes in the Southern Salish Sea
Cameron Sharpe – Pacific hagfish off the Oregon Coast
Duane Stevenson – Updating long-standing fisheries-independent bottom trawl surveys
Mark Terwilliger – Age validation of Black Rockfish, Copper Rockfish, and Cabezon using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to elucidate seasonal patterns in otolith stable oxygen isotopes
James Thorson – Estimating trade-offs in life-history, morphometric, behavioral, reproductive, and trophic traits for all fishes
Nick Weber – Epigenetic Age Estimation in a Deepwater Scorpionfish, Blackbelly Rosefish
Ray Webster – Flexible fishery-independent surveys in a changing world
Ellen Willis-Norton – Multistressor global change drivers reduce hatch and viability of Lingcod embryos
Mallarie Yeagar – Assessing the role of larval connectivity on a kelp forest fish across the California MPA Network
Posters
Molly Alvino – Do swim bladder morphologies reflect the responses of nearshore rockfishes to barotrauma?
Claude Dykstra – Examining stress profiles and mortality rates of discarded Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) from a charter recreational fishery
Claude Dykstra – Gear based approaches to breaking the depredation reward cycle
Christian Heath – Between a ROCKfish & a HARD cap – how inseason regulations are used to meet harvest objectives for groundfish
Morgan Johnston– Predictive species distribution modeling of yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) in Oregon’s rocky reefs for improved stock management
Andrew Lauermann – Temporal trends and MPA effects in mid-depth reefs across California’s MPA network using a remotely operated vehicle
Kelly Lawrence – Statewide nearshore video acoustic survey lessons learned and next steps
Emily Markowitz – Advancing agency research and building accessibility through open science practices: NOAA Fisheries Alaska Bottom Trawl Survey public data products
Kalei Shotwell– Developing a novel approach to estimate habitat linked survival rates for early life history stages using individual-based models
Kali Stone – Arctic cod growth and condition in a warming Alaska Arctic