| killer whale depredation and associated costs to alaskan sablefish, pacific halibut and greenland turbot longliners. | killer whale (orcinus orca) depredation (whales stealing or damaging fish caught on fishing gear) adversely impacts demersal longline fisheries for sablefish (anoplopoma fimbria), pacific halibut (hippoglossus stenolepis) and greenland turbot (reinhardtius hippoglossoides) in the bering sea, aleutian islands and western gulf of alaska. these interactions increase direct costs and opportunity costs associated with catching fish and reduce the profitability of longline fishing in western alaska. t ... | 2014 | 24558446 |