NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today announced the release of the FY 2023-2027 Strategic Science Plan for the Alaska Fisheries Science Center.
Priorities included in the Plan include monitoring and assessing Alaska fish, crab, and marine mammal populations, fisheries, and marine ecosystems; monitoring and predicting climate impacts on Alaska marine life; and advancing new initiatives including aquaculture and ‘omics and new technologies such as artificial intelligence, uncrewed systems (UxS), electronic monitoring technologies, satellite remote sensing, tagging technologies, and multi-spectral imaging to support scientific programs and research projects.
Alaska Fisheries Science Center Deputy Director Jeremy Rusin said that “we hope to maintain our diverse research portfolio so we can deliver the science needed to monitor, understand and predict changing Alaska ecosystems,” adding that “[w]e want to strike the right balance—curtailing effort in some areas while investing in strategic areas with a goal of achieving greater efficiency in the long run.”
