SUMMARY OF MAJOR CHANGES

• Updated the following sections/contributions in November 2007:

1. Fixed minor errors in October 2007 draft
2. Time trends in non-target species catch

• Updated the following sections/contributions in October 2007:

1. For those contributions not updated this year, links to the Ecosystem Considerations website, where those contributions can be found, are provided.
2. Ecosystem Assessment
3. Gulf of Alaska Survey Bottom Temperature Analysis
4. Winter mixed layer depths at GAK 1 in the northern GOA
5. Summer bottom and surface temperatures – Eastern Bering Sea
6. Water temperature data collections – Aleutian Islands trawl surveys
7. HAPC biota – Gulf of Alaska
8. HAPC biota – Bering Sea
9. Forage Species – Gulf of Alaska
10. Forage – Eastern Bering Sea
11. Togiak herring population trends
12. Trends in groundfish biomass and recruits per spawning biomass
13. Stock-recruitment relationships for Bristol Bay red king crabs
14. Miscellaneous species – Gulf of Alaska
15. Jellyfish – Eastern Bering Sea
16. Miscellaneous species – Eastern Bering Sea
17. Steller sea lions
18. Northern fur seals
19. Harbor seals
20. Time trends in bycatch of prohibited species
21. Hook and line (longline) fishing effort in the EBS, AI, and GOA
22. Groundfish bottom trawl fishing effort in the EBS, AI, and GOA
23. Groundfish pelagic trawl fishing effort in the EBS
24. Pot fishing effort in the EBS, AI, and GOA
25. Trophic level of the catch
26. Fish stock sustainability index and status of groundfish, crab, salmon, and scallop stocks
27. Fishing overcapacity programs
28. Effects of fishing gear on seafloor habitat:  Research summaries in Appendix 2

• New contributions/sections in October 2007:

1. Marine Mammals, Pinnipeds (Ice seals)
2. Groundfish pelagic trawl fishing effort in the AI and GOA
3. Distribution and abundance in the human population of the GOA

• Updated the following sections/contributions in September 2007:  

1. Responses to the SSC
2. Executive Summary
3. North Pacific Overview – FOCI
4. Pollock Survival Indices – FOCI

                  Seasonal rainfall at Kodiak
                  Wind mixing at the southwestern end of Shelikof Strait
5. Eddies in the Gulf of Alaska – FOCI
6. Ocean Surface Currents – Papa Trajectory Index
7. Bering Sea Climate – FOCI
8. Variations in distribution, abundance, energy density, and diet of age-0 walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma, in the eastern Bering Sea
9. Update on EBS winter spawning flatfish recruitment and wind forcing
10. Combined Standardized Indices of recruitment and survival rate
11. Average local species richness and diversity of the groundfish community
12. Total CPUE of selected fish and invertebrate species, Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska
13. Time trends in groundfish discards
14. Areas closed to bottom trawling in the EBS/ AI and GOA
15. Hook and Line (Longline) fishing effort in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering, Sea and Aleutian Islands
16. Groundfish bottom trawl fishing effort in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
17. Groundfish pelagic trawl fishing effort in the Eastern Bering Sea
18. Total annual surplus production and overall exploitation rate of groundfish
19. Community size spectrum of the bottom trawl-caught fish community of the eastern Bering Sea
20. Groundfish fleet composition
21. Determining the value of habitat to juvenile rockfish in the Aleutian Islands
22. Nursery habitat mechanisms and function for juvenile flatfishes

• New contributions/sections in September 2007:

1. Responses to the Aleutian Islands Fishery Ecosystem Plan (AI FEP)
2. Eddies in the Aleutian Islands –FOCI
3. Distribution of rockfish species along environmental gradients in Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands bottom trawl surveys
4. Trends in Jellyfish Bycatch from the Bering Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS)
5. Bowhead whales
6. Pot fishing effort in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering, Sea and Aleutian Islands