Download or read book Final Environmental Assessment Section 10 Permit Applications by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife for Incidental Take of ESA listed Rockfish and Other Listed Fish Within the Puget Sound Georgia Basin and Take Due to Scientific Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This final Environmental Assessment (EA) is for NMFS's issuance of section 10 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) permits to WDFW for take due to scientific research and fisheries management of ESA-listed rockfish and other listed fish within the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin. NMFS has conducted this environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act in support of evaluating WDFW's permit applications under section 10 of the ESA. The EA evaluates the environmental consequences of alternative actions for issuing incidental take permits to WDFW for scientific research and fisheries management in the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin. The analysis of alternatives and consequences will inform NMFS' decision regarding issuance of these section 10 permits. The covered species for these permits would include the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin DPSs of threatened yelloweye rockfish, canary rockfish, and endangered bocaccio. Additional covered species would include the threatened Evolutionarily Significant Units of Puget Sound Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), Puget Sound summer chum salmon (O. keta) and, the threatened DPS of Puget Sound steelhead (O. omykiss), and the threatened DPSs of southern green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) and southern eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus)"--Executive Summary (page ES-1).
Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Assessment Prepared for a National Marine Fisheries Service Action Concerning Issuance of an Endangered Species Act Section 10 a 1 A Permit to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for Activities at the Iron Gate Fish Hatchery written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is applying for an Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 10(a)(1)(A) permit for activities related to the coho program at Iron Gate Hatchery (IGH). The ESA Section 10 application incorporates a Hatchery and Genetic Management Plan (HGMP) developed by CDFW and PacifiCorp. Through implementation of this HGMP, and issuance of the ESA Section 10 permit, the coho program at Iron Gate Hatchery will be operated to conserve listed species. The HGMP covers activities related to the artificial production of coho salmon at IGH for the period 2014-2024. This includes the interim period until mainstem Klamath River dams of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Project No. 2082) are anticipated to be removed (2020) pursuant to the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement (K.HSA). Under the HGMP, an active broodstock management plan, based on real-time genetic analysis, will be implemented each year to reduce inbreeding. The broodstock will consist of 20 to 50 percent natural origin coho salmon to increase population diversity and fitness. Hatchery culture practices will be improved to increase egg-to-smolt survival rates. The increase in survival will be achieved by improving egg incubation conditions and covering raceways with netting (completed in 2011) to reduce bird predation on juveniles. Egg incubation conditions will be investigated to identify measures that will further improve survival. There are several potential sources of take associated with the IGH coho salmon program including, take associated with the collection of coho salmon spawners at IGH, incidental take associated with monitoring and evaluation activities to enumerate natural origin and hatchery origin coho spawning escapement in streams associated with the Upper Klamath Population unit, and trapping of juvenile coho in Bogus Creek. These levels of take are not anticipated to increase the risk of extinction or cause jeopardy to any of the coho salmon populations in the action area. These levels of take represent a decrease in the quantity of adult coho salmon being used for broodstock annually, and will provide an overall beneficial effect on the Upper Klamath population unit by allowing more adult coho salmon to spawn naturally. Monitoring and evaluation of information gathered through programs proposed in the HGMP are expected to improve the likelihood for effective application of management measures addressing human-caused factors for decline of the listed coho salmon population. Application of these measures should help protect and increase coho abundance and productivity in the Klamath Basin. Increases in coho salmon abundance and productivity are likely under the HGMP, and will potentially lead to the timely recovery of the population, and subsequent resumption of conservation-based fisheries when viable, self-sustaining coho salmon returns are re-established"--Cover letter summary.
Download or read book Endangered Species Act Consultation Handbook written by and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1998 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook provides internal guidance and establishes national policy for conducting consultation and conferences pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. The purpose of the Handbook is to promote efficiency and nationwide consistency within and between the Services. The Handbook addresses the major consultation processes, including informal, formal, emergency, and special consultations, and conferences.
Download or read book Proposed Issuance of a Permit Under Section 10 a 1 B of Th Endangered Species Act to Allow Incidental Take of the Endangered Pahrump Poolfish Empetrichthys Latos Latos Environmental Assessment EA written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Assessment of a National Marine Fisheries Service Action to Issue an Incidental Take Permit to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Under Section 10 a 1 B of the Endangered Species Act written by United States. National Marine Fisheries Service and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Not on My Watch written by Alexandra Morton and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada" because of her passionate thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon. Her account of that fight is both inspiring in its own right and a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love—the northern resident orca. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean farm pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising in which ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't obey their own court rulings. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon and ultimately the whales—a story that reveals her own perseverance and bravery, but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account for the sake of us all.
Download or read book Draft Environmental Assessment of a National Marine Fisheries Service Action to Issue an Incidental Take Permit to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Under Section 10 a 1 B of the Endangered Species Act written by United States. National Marine Fisheries Service and published by . This book was released on 2000* with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final recovery plan for the steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preseason Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Opinion that Address the Potential Effects on Sacramento River Winter run Chinook Salmon from the Bureau of Reclamation s Proposed Los Vaqueros Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Assessment on the Effects of Issuing an Incidental Take Permit no 16645 to Georgia Department of Natural Resources for Their Commercial Shad Fishery written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposes to issue an incidental take permit to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, under Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the regulations governing the incidental taking of endangered and threatened species (50 CFR 222.307). The permit would authorize the incidental capture, with a limited amount of harm and mortality, o fendangered shortnose (Acipenser brevirostrum) and Atlantic sturgeon (A. oxyrhychus) from the South Atlantic Distinct Population Segment (DPS), Carolina DPS, Chesapeake Bay DPS, New York Bight DPS, and the threatened Gulf of Maine DPS and would be valid for ten years. The state of Georgia has amended their commercial fishing regulations for the Georgia shad fishery to minimize the incidental capture of sturgeon. The new regulations restrict fishing to the lower portions of the Savannah, Ogeechee, and Altamaha Rivers and close the fishery in the Satilla and St. Mary's Rivers. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources also submitted a completed application and conservation plan with additional measures intended to monitor, minimize, and mitigate the impacts of incidental take in the fishery to the maximum extent practicable"--Abstract (page 1).
Download or read book California s Living Marine Resources written by William S. Leet and published by University Of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources; Califorinia Sea Grant. This book was released on 2001 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 592-page spiral-bound reference provides a baseline of information for all those involved with managing living marine resources in California and chronicles changes that have occurred in many of the state’s fisheries. Organized by marine ecosystems: bays and estuaries, nearshore and offshore. Includes illustrated species descriptions with details of biological knowledge, fishery history, landings data, population status and references. Also includes sections on marine birds and mammals and appendices containing management considerations (by species), a glossary of technical terms and acronyms and fishing gear illustrations. Jointly produced by the California Sea Grant Extension Program and the California Department of Fish and Game following the passage of the Marine Life Protection Act in January 1999.
Download or read book Marine Mammal Welfare written by Andy Butterworth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine mammals attract human interest – sometimes this interest is benign or positive – whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals. However, there are many forces operating to affect adversely the lives of whales, seals, manatees, otters and polar bears – and this book explores how the welfare of marine mammals has been affected and how they have adapted, moved, responded and sometimes suffered as a result of the changing marine and human world around them. Marine mammal welfare addresses the welfare effects of marine debris, of human traffic in the oceans, of noise, of hunting, of whale watching and tourism, and of some of the less obvious impacts on marine mammals – on their social structures, on their behaviours and migration, and also of the effects on captivity for animals kept in zoos and aquaria. There is much to think and talk about – how marine mammals respond in a world dramatically influenced by man, how are their social structures affected and how is their welfare impacted?
Download or read book Draft Environmental Impact Statement to Analyze Impacts of Issuance by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U S Fish and Wildlife Service of Two Incidental Take Permits Under Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act for Implementation of the Washington Department of Natural Resources Aquatic Lands Habitat Conservation Plan written by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Impact Statement for the Puget Sound Rockfish Conservation Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving Fish Stock Assessments written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1998-02-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean harvests have plateaued worldwide and many important commercial stocks have been depleted. This has caused great concern among scientists, fishery managers, the fishing community, and the public. This book evaluates the major models used for estimating the size and structure of marine fish populations (stock assessments) and changes in populations over time. It demonstrates how problems that may occur in fisheries dataâ€"for example underreporting or changes in the likelihood that fish can be caught with a given type of gearâ€"can seriously degrade the quality of stock assessments. The volume makes recommendations for means to improve stock assessments and their use in fishery management.
