2012 Alaska Ocean Sciences Bowl Research Project: Ecosystem-based Management of an Alaska-based Fishery.
The following papers were submitted by high school teams participating in the 2012 Alaska regional competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. The papers following third place are listed in alphabetical order by school.
Winning Paper
- Cordova High School–Prince William Sound Science Center Nefarious Dawgsharks: Coral, Crabs, and Conservation: Managing Aleutian King Crab Through the Preservation of Cold-Water Coral Gardens [PDF; 680 KB]
Second Place
- Juneau-Douglas High School Pelagic Magic: Comprehensive Management of the Wild Commercial Harvest and Mariculture of Geoduck Clams (Panopea generosa) in Southeast Alaska [PDF; 2.2 MB]
Third Place
- Homer High School Twilight Zone: Restoration of Cook Inlet Herring Fishery [PDF; 545 KB]
Other Papers
(in alphabetical order by city)
- Copper Center: Kenny Lake High School The Omega Fours—"The Not So Fatty Acids": Management of Copper River King Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)—An Ecosystem Based Approach [PDF, 242 MB]
- Dillingham High School Flamin' Krakens: Management Plan for Chinook Salmon in the Nushagak Drainage [PDF; 160 KB]
- Juneau Thunder Mountain High School Cephalogods: The Potential for a Sustained, Manageable Armhook squid (Berryteuthis magister) Fishery in Southeast Alaska [PDF; 1.1 MB]
- Ketchikan High School Echinoderminators: Sea Cucumber Ecosystem Based Management Plan [PDF; 1.6 MB]
- Kotlik School The LYSD's Atomic Sea Ice: In-River Management Plan and Its Projected Effects on the Lower Yukon–Kotlik Fishery
- Kotzebue Middle/High School The Fish Themselves: Sheefish in the Northwest Arctic [PDF; 111 KB]
- Petersburg High School Cexy Cnidarians: Southeast Alaska Inside Waters Management Plan of Walleye Pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) [PDF; 868 KB]
- Scammon Bay School Rip Tide: Composting And Other Ideas to Help the Bering Sea [PDF; 568 KB]
- Seward High School PodCasts: Sperm Whale Detriments to Black Cod Catches [PDF; 500 KB]
- Unalaska City High School Mighty Molluscs: A Proposition for an Octopus Fishery in the Aleutian Islands [PDF; 692 KB]
- Wasilla: Mat-Su Career and Technical High School Mat-Tsunamis: Ecosystem-Based Management of Bristol Bay Fisheries [PDF; 1.7 MB]
- Wasilla: Mat-Su Career and Technical High School Rock Lobsters: Ecosystem Based Management of Shellfish in the Cook Inlet Region [PDF; 160 KB]
- Wasilla: Mat-Su Career and Technical High School TIger Sharks: Ecosystem-Based Management of Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) and Pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbusha) in Prince William Sound [PDF; 868 KB]
- Wasilla High School Aurelia: Ecosystem-based Chinook Salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, Management Plan of the Susitna River Drainage [PDF; 3.4 MB]
