Oceanographic monitoring on the IPHC setline survey in 2009

The International Pacifi c Halibut Commission launched a coastwide program in 2009 to collect oceanographic data at each survey station using water column profi lers. The survey spanned from southern Oregon northward to British Columbia, into the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands. A total of 1,245 successful casts was made out of a possible 1,279.