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2008-10-10 14:40:26 +0000: 
Journal for accession number: 0046299
Created on:                    2008-10-10 14:40:26 +0000
By:   Carla (Forgy) Coleman, SSMC3 4306, 713-3295 x184
      Last edited: H. Garcia 14 Oct 2008

Source:  Zooplankton biomass from NMFS surveys off Alaska data was received at NODC on
September 9, 2008 by Tim Boyer and Olga Baranova from Todd O'Brien, NOAA NMFS WASH. DC,
digitized by the submitting institute.

Format: Text

EcoFOCI (Ecosystems & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations) is a joint research 
program between the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA/ National Marine Fisheries/ AFSC) 
and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA/Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research/PMEL).
Acting as an umbrella program, EcoFOCI encompasses the original FOCI (Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated 
Investigations) program and the more recent NPCREP (North Pacific Climate Regimes and Ecosystem Productivity)
program. 

FOCI was established by NOAA in 1984 to study the factors that cause variability in the recruitment success
of commercially valuable fin and shellfish in Alaskan waters. Walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) from 
the western Gulf of Alaska was the first fish species examined in these studies. Since the inception of the 
program, the scope has evolved to encompass study of the ecosystems of the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea 
with the goals of improving understanding of ecosystem dynamics and applying that understanding to the management 
of living marine resources.

See also: http://www.ecofoci.noaa.gov/