Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium
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About the Wakefield symposia
The Alaska Sea Grant College Program has been sponsoring and coordinating the Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium series since 1982, in partnership with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, and the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. These meetings are a forum for information exchange in biology, management, economics, and processing of various fish species and complexes, as well as an opportunity for scientists from high-latitude countries to meet informally and discuss their work.
The series is named in honor of Lowell Wakefield and his many contributions to Alaska's fisheries. Wakefield, who is regarded as the founder of the Alaska king crab industry, recognized that for the fishery to survive, superb quality seafood products must be provided to the consumer, and resource management must be based on the best available scientific data.
Since its inception, the Wakefield symposium series has addressed subjects that are timely and key to the understanding and management of commercially harvested marine species. Topics have included:
- Biology, ecology, and economics of king, Tanner, and Dungeness crabs; and rockfishes, pollock, flatfishes, and herring
- Genetics of subpolar fish and invertebrates
- Systems approaches, including management strategies for exploited fish populations, fishery stock assessment models, ecosystem considerations, and spatial processes and management of fish populations
- The effects of climate change on species and fishery management.
List of Wakefield symposia
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