Results of the 2023 eastern and northern Bering Sea continental shelf bottom trawl survey of groundfish and invertebrate fauna

In 2023, the Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering (RACE) Division of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) conducted the Eastern Bering Sea (EBS) Crab/Groundfish Bottom Trawl Survey and Northern Bering Sea (NBS) Crab/Groundfish Bottom Trawl Survey. The survey covered the eastern Bering Sea continental shelf (bottom depths between 20 and 200 m) from the Alaska mainland coast to the U.S.-Russia Maritime Boundary between the Alaska Peninsula and the Bering Strait.