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The Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Auke Bay Laboratories (ABL) conducts scientific research throughout Alaska on commercially marketable species such as rockfish, sablefish, and salmon, and on all aspects of marine ecosystems such as ocean physics and chemistry essential to fish habitats, and the structure and functioning of marine food webs. Information products are provided to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the NMFS Alaska Regional Office, fishing industries, state and federal regulators, and international treaty bodies.

Groups involved in managing human activities in Alaska’s coastal environments base their actions on ABL's knowledge of the quantities and qualities of fish and fish habitats. For example, ABL’s capabilities in genetics contribute information to the management of Alaska’s fisheries, including pollock fisheries in the Bering Sea, rockfish fisheries on the Gulf of Alaska, and salmon fisheries on the international boundary between the US and Canada

ABL is organized into four research programs:

• Marine Ecology and Stock Assessment
• Recruitment Energetics and Coastal Assessment
• Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment
• Genetics

The headquarters of ABL is the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute, a "green" office and laboratory building located at Lena Point, north of Juneau, Alaska, serves as the focal point for a total of seven facilities. Five additonial facilities are located in southeast Alaska and two are on the Pribilof Islands in the central Bering Sea.

• Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute - Lena Point, Juneau, AK
• Auke Bay Marine Station – Auke Bay, Juneau AK
• Auke Creek Research Station – Auke Creek, Juneau, AK
• Juneau Subport and Dock – downtown Juneau, AK
• Little Port Walter Marine Station – on southern Baranof Island
• Pribilof Island facilities – Bering Sea, AK