Lipid Analyses for Pacific Herring, Invertebrates and Humpback Whales in the Gulf of Alaska, 2012-2015, Gulf Watch Alaska Pelagic Component

This data is part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA), Pelagic component of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, project numbers 12120114-N, 13120114-N, 14120114-N, 15120114-N, and 16120114-N. Gulf Watch Alaska is the long-term ecosystem monitoring program of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council for the marine ecosystem affected by the 1989 oil spill.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) Auke Bay Laboratories (ABL) Nutritional Ecology Laboratory maintain a database containing all of the biochemical data collected. The database includes seasonal information regarding size, age, location, date, developmental stage, and maturity status of all the specimens that have been examined in Prince William Sound (PWS). Samples range from phytoplankton to whales and seals. Depending on the objectives of specific studies, these data can be matched to measures of energy content, proximate, lipid class, and fatty acid composition. This dataset is a subset of the database in a single comma-separated values (csv) file format containing lipid analyses for capelin, herring, sandlance, pollock, Saffron cod, krill, and humpback whale tissue samples collected in 2012 to 2015 in PWS. Lipid analyses include bomb energy density, lipid content, fatty acid composition, protein content, moisture and ash context, and RNA/DNA measurements.