2017 Togiak Herring Forecast Made Without Benefit of Spawning Biomass Data from 2016
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] - March 29, 2017
Due to budget cuts to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, biologists used an average of the last 37-years to estimate 2017 biomass.
“Because that data is no longer available to us, we forecast the 2017 biomass as the average spawning biomass for all years for which we have data (1978-2015) less 10% in order to be conservative,” wrote Tim Sands, Area Management Biologist in Dillingham...
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