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Austin Esterbrooks
37:37 - 39:24
"the first species distribution modeling of Chinook salmon, that's been something that Sabrina Garcia has been working on for some time, and the idea is to use all the tagging information that we have and try to predict distributions of Chinook salmon based on environmental drivers as well as historical bycatch records, as well as any kind of tagging data that informs Chinook salmon distributions and trying to get, you know, an understanding of when and where and why Chinook go where they go. And that would then translate into potential data products that the fleet could look at to inform when and where they're going to choose the fish and preemptively avoid Chinook salmon, as opposed to the way the rolling hotspot program works, which is to avoid salmon after you know where they're at."
“the first species distribution modeling of Chinook salmon, that's been something that Sabrina Garcia has been working on for some time, and the idea is to use all the tagging information that we have and try to predict distributions of Chinook salmon based on environmental drivers as well as historical bycatch records, as well as any kind of tagging data that informs Chinook salmon distributions and trying to get, you know, an understanding of when and where and why Chinook go where they go. And that would then translate into potential data products that the fleet could look at to inform when and where they're going to choose the fish and preemptively avoid Chinook salmon, as opposed to the way the rolling hotspot program works, which is to avoid salmon after you know where they're at.”
- Speaker
- Austin Esterbrooks
- Timestamp
- 37:37 – 39:24
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 5, 2026
From the transcript
Sure, the first species distribution modeling of Chinook salmon, that's been something that Sabrina Garcia has been working on for some time, and the idea is to use all the tagging information that we have and try to predict distributions of Chinook salmon based on environmental drivers as well as historical bycatch records, as well as any kind of tagging data that informs Chinook salmon distributions and trying to get, you know, an understanding of when and where and why Chinook go where they go. And that would then translate into potential data products that the fleet could look at to inform when and where they're going to choose the fish and preemptively avoid Chinook salmon, as opposed to the way the rolling hotspot program works, which is to avoid salmon after you know where they're at. The second project is Econ River Norton Sound Chum Salmon Marine Ecology. This is a co-funded NPRB project by Alexey Pinchuk, and this This is just looking at, I think, some more environmental drivers of what's driving the chum salmon declines, particularly on the Yukon. And it's primarily a diet study, so they're looking at what the fish are eating and collecting samples in river on the Yukon.