Results of trawl surveys in the Bering and Okhotsk Seas in autumn 2023

Abstract

Results of trawl surveys in the Okhotsk Sea and western Bering Sea conducted aboard RV TINRO and RV Professor Kaganovsky in the autumn of 2023 are analyzed. Data on spatial distribution, abundance and biomass of fish species, cephalopods and jellyfishes in the epipelagic layer are presented. Contemporary status of the epipelagic nekton communities is examined. Quantitative distribution and biological state of pink salmon is described in details.

Keywords

• okhotsk sea
• bering sea
• pacific salmon
• salmon migration
• abundance
• biomass
• fish distribution
• sea surface temperature
• water dynamics