Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
The (AKCFWRU) is part of a nationwide cooperative program initiated in 1935 to promote research and graduate student training in the ecology and management of fish, wildlife, and their habitats. The Alaska Unit is staffed by USGS scientists who hold faculty appointments and focuses on graduate student training and instruction, technical assistance to cooperating agencies, integrating studies of fish and wildlife, and research directed at resource management problems.
AKCFWRU collects data while researching several species of fish.