NOAA Fisheries Will Cancel Five Alaska Research Surveys for 2020
May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, May 25 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news release:
Due to the uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the unique challenges those are creating for the agency, NOAA Fisheries took the unprecedented step to cancel five of six large scale research surveys in federal waters off Alaska in 2020. The cancelled surveys include the Aleutian Islands bottom trawl survey, the eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl surve . . .
Due to the uncertainties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the unique challenges those are creating for the agency, NOAA Fisheries took the unprecedented step to cancel five of six large scale research surveys in federal waters off Alaska in 2020. The cancelled surveys include the Aleutian Islands bottom trawl survey, the eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl surve . . .