| Vessel | Activity | 2008 Cruises | |||||||||
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| J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | Dates | ||
| F/V Arcturus* | Pollock A season fishing | 20 Jan– 31 Mar |
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| NOAA Miller Freeman | Winter climate-modulated fishery recruitment ( ichthyoplankton survey) | 16–26 Feb | |||||||||
| USCG Healy | Benthic studies south of St. Lawrence Island and walrus tagging and tracking | Cruise Report | 13–26 Mar | |||||||||
| USCG Healy | Measuring ocean conditions and food web productivity on eastern Bering Sea shelf | Cruise Report | 29 Mar– 6 May |
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| NOAA Oscar Dyson | Climate-modulated fishery recruitment (spring ichthyoplankton survey) | Cruise Report | 11–20 May | |||||||||
| F/V Aldebaran* | Eastern Bering Sea crab and groundfish survey (bottom trawl survey) | 27 May– 28 Jul |
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| NOAA Oscar Dyson | NOAA acoustic survey in the eastern Bering Sea | 31 May– 31 Jul |
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| USCG Healy | Measuring productivity on eastern Bering Sea shelf | Early CTD and other data | 20 Jun– 18 Jul |
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| F/V Frosti | Examining the distribution and composition of forage fish patches around the Pribilofs | 12 Jul– 8 Aug |
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| F/V Sea Storm*, NOAA Oscar Dyson | NOAA surface trawl survey (BASIS) | 12 Aug– 20 Sep |
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| F/V Sea Storm*, NOAA Oscar Dyson | NOAA surface trawl survey (BASIS) | 10–30 Sep | |||||||||
* or equivalent contract fishing vessel