Presentation PDFs

Orals

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