In 2025, the Groundfish and Shellfish Assessment Programs in the Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center conducted the 43rd eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey and the 7th northern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey. The surveys occurred from May to August and covered the eastern and northern Bering Sea continental shelf (bottom depths between 20 and 200 m) from the Alaska mainland coast west to the U.S.-Russia Maritime Boundary, and from the Alaska Peninsula north to the Bering Strait
Markowitz et al. (Thu,) studied this question.