While based in Seattle with extensive experience in fisheries of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, NRC’s 25+ years of experience in fisheries research extends throughout the world, including the North Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and South Pacific and elsewhere.
Specific NRC work descriptions have included:
- Resource appraisals and forecasts
- Biological and economic resource damage assessment
- Fisheries policies, plans, and legislation
- Fisheries desktop studies for cable and pipeline routes
- Industry strategy, development, and investment
- Vessel and gear operation and development
- Vessel, permits and quota valuations
- Infrastructure and port development
- Fisheries related environmental cleanups
- Environmental assessment and impact
- Market assessments and planning
- Seafood processing planning and product development
- Product loss and liability dispute resolution
- Investment and business strategy planning
- Research planning, execution, and reporting
- Expert witnesses, loss and liability insurance claims
- Recreational fisheries research
- Environmental monitoring design and implementation
- Design and implementation of public education programs
- Industry energy efficiency and conservation audits
In addition, NRC provides general advisory services for a variety of industry and government agencies on a continuing retainer basis.
