Fisheries Resources Division  
Acting Director: Russ Vetter, Ph.D.

The work of FRD is organized into four functional groups:  Ecosystem Monitoring, Fish Ecology, Analysis and Synthesis, and Communication and Administration.

Cross-cutting these functional groups are five research programs: Coastal Pelagic Species, Highly Migratory Species, West Coast Groundfish, Abalone, and Marine Turtles.

Division News

State-of-the-Art Technology Development Tank

Plans for the new SWFSC laboratory in La Jolla are rapidly advancing with construction expected to begin in 2010. The building will incorporate a large sea- and fresh-water Ocean Technology Development Tank. With world-class facility, the SWFSC will be able to continue its pioneering work in the development and use of acoustical and optical technologies for non-lethal surveys of protected and managed species and for the detection of near-surface fish schools (such as sardine) during ship-based surveys. The test tank will support ecosystem-based fisheries management through new or innovative uses of technologies, including the use of novel platforms for deploying optical and acoustic sensors, such as inexpensive instrumented buoys, instrumented small craft, remotely operated vehicles (ROV) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), gliders, untethered profilers, drifters and floats.

2006 Coast-Wide Sardine Survey videos aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson.

The following are 3-minute video segments describing different aspects of the survey viewed as Windows Streaming Media format (WMV).

Marine Mammals and Seabirds
Acoustics 
Continuous Underway Fish Egg Sampler: CUFES
CTD deployment
Pelagic trawling  
15 minute, high quality video