Even With a Pandemic, NOAA and Alaska Fisheries Science Center Plan for Surveys to Resume in 2021
Although a semi-final draft plan for Alaska's surveys won’t be ready until December, Dr. Robert Foy, Science Director at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, gave a presentation to the North Pacific Council earlier this week on data that had been collected this year and how plans are building for a close to full complement of survey vessels to be operating next year.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Foy and his team had been analyzing various options for data gathering, which led...
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