Data Products & Tools

To accompany these data, we also produce data products to make using our data more accessible and straightforward.

Survey of products developed by GAP

Product	Point of Contact GOA/AI	Point of Contact BS	Description
Data
Finalized bottom trawl data	Ned Laman	Duane Stevenson	NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP bottom trawl data that has completed the post-survey internal QAQC process.
Data requests	Nancy Roberson	Nancy Roberson	To request a subset of the NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP bottom trawl raw data or a data product.
Species codebook	Nancy Roberson	Chris Anderson	List of codes used for fish and invertebrates identified in NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP Division surveys.
Survey protocols	Nancy Roberson	Nancy Roberson	Documentation of NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP groundfish bottom trawl survey protocols.
Analysis
Design-based indices for target species	Ned Laman	Rebecca Haehn	Standard design-based indices of biomass and abundance from NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP bottom trawl survey data.
Design-based age or length composition	Ned Laman	Rebecca Haehn	Standard design-based indices of size and age composition from NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP bottom trawl survey data.
Model-based indices, age comps (stock assessment), area occupied, and COG (ESP)	Cecilia O'Leary	Lewis Barnett	Spatiotemporal model-based biomass indices, abundance indices, and age composition from NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP bottom trawl survey data.
Annual bottom and surface temperature summary (ESR, stock assessment)	Cecilia O'Leary	Sean Rohan & Lewis Barnett	Summary metrics for bottom trawl bottom and surface temperatures relative to historical baseline.
Bering Sea cold pool index and temperature data products (ESR, ESP, stock assessment)	-	Sean Rohan & Lewis Barnett	Create annual temperature rasters for the EBS, calculate the EBS cold pool index and temperature data products, and produce visualizations.
Annual fish condition (ESR)	Cecilia O'Leary	Bianca Prohaska & Sean Rohan	Groundfish morphometric condition for fish in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska.
Rockfish indices vs environmental gradients (ESR)	Alexandra Dowlin	-	GOA/AI survey trends in distribution and abundance of 6 rockfishes across 3 environmental gradients in the North Pacific.
Structure-Forming Invertebrates-Habitat Areas of Particular Concern (SFI-HAPC) (ESR)	Ned Laman	-	Relative abundance of sponges, hydrocorals, soft corals, Gorgonians, anemones, and Pennatulaceans in GOA and AI surveys.
Forage fishes (ESR)	Ned Laman	-	Relative abundance of capelin, eulachon, sandfish, sand lance, and prickelbacks in GOA and AI surveys.
Miscellaneous species (ESR)	Ned Laman	Thaddeus Buser	Relative abundance of echinoderms, poachers, shrimp and eelpouts in GOA and AI surveys.
Jellies (ESR)	Ned Laman	Thaddeus Buser	Relative abundance of sea jellies in GOA and AI surveys.
Essential fish habitat	Megsie Siple	Sean Rohan	Habitat maps for groundfish and crab based on species distribution models. Updated every five years.
Visualization Tools
Alaska groundfish maps (CPUE, etc.)	-	Sean Rohan	Visualization tool for the Alaska survey regions.
Communication
Annual survey data report	Megsie Siple & Bethany Riggle	Emily Markowitz, Sophia Wassermann, Nicole Charriere, Chris Anderson	Alaska Fisheries Science Center NOAA Technical Memorandum summary of the survey progress and findings. These are available online and the latest publications for each survey are listed below (https://repository.library.noaa.gov/).
ADF&G report of research activities	Alexandra Dowlin	Nicole Charriere & Rebecca Haehn	Report on AI and GOA trawl survey fishing activity inside and outside of Alaska State waters.
IPHC Report	-	Rebecca Haehn
Plan team survey results presentation	Ned Laman	Duane Stevenson	NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP present their findings to the North Pacific Groundfish Plan Team; presentations, recordings, and attachments located here: https://www.npfmc.org/about-the-council/plan-teams/bsai-and-goa-groundfish/.
Community highlights report	TBD	Emily Markowitz	Compilation of NOAA-NMFS-AFSC-RACE-GAP survey findings for communities around Alaska.
Bottom Trawl Survey Temperature and Progress Maps	Ned Laman	Emily Markowitz	Near real-time survey progress and ocean temperatures recorded during the Aleutian Islands, Gulf of Alaska, and Bering Sea Bottom Trawl Surveys.