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Figure 1: Upper Panel: The FOCI study area in the western Gulf of Alaska with a schematic showing the location of pollock life history stages. The outlined arrows represent potential transport of larvae off the shelf. Lower Panel: Circulation in the study area as derived from satellite-tracked buoys (51) drogued at 40 m and deployed between 1986 and 1994 (after Schumacher and Kendall [1991]).

 
Figure 2: Upper Panel: A schematic of the general circulation over the basin of the Bering Sea as derived from ongoing FOCI research (after Stabeno and Reed [1994]). Lower Panel: A schematic of circulation over the eastern shelf based on previous results [ Schumacher and Kinder, 1983], together with more recent satellite-tracked buoy [ Stabeno and Reed, 1994] and moored current observations [ Schumacher and Reed, 1992]. ACC is the Alaska Coastal Current, which enters through Unimak Pass, and W represents regions with weak or statistically insignificant mean flow.