Fisheries
The Department of Fisheries is Alaska鈥檚 leader in undergraduate and graduate fisheries education. The fisheries program is located in Fairbanks and Juneau, with additional faculty in Anchorage and Kodiak. Faculty and students conduct research in diverse fisheries disciplines, including genetics, biology and ecology, aquaculture, statistics, population dynamics, fisheries oceanography, economics, anthropology, seafood science and technology, and fisheries management, marine policy and resource conservation. Research is conducted on a wide variety of species of fish, invertebrates, and marine mammals. Laboratory and field projects are conducted in freshwater and marine environments statewide from Southeast 黑料社appto the Arctic. Much research is focused on pressing fishery issues and involves collaborations with state and federal management agencies, private organizations, fishery-dependent communities, and 黑料社appNative tribes and organizations.
- Shannon Atkinson
- (UAS collaborating faculty)
- Keith Criddle
- Curry Cunningham
- Ginny Eckert
- Megan McPhee
- Franz Mueter
- (UAS collaborating faculty)
- Heidi Pearson (UAS collaborating faculty)
- David Tallmon (UAS collaborating faculty)