Download or read book Synopsis of Research on Steller Sea Lions 2001 2005 written by Mic Lowther and published by Lowther. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manford of MorningGlory Mountain is the story of seven friends: Manford, the moose; Veronica, the bear; Golly, the golden eagle; Flossie, the pink flamingo; Princess Columbine, the monarch butterfly; \tNeedlenose, the porcupine; and Ssam, the garter snake. These characters go adventuring in mountains, forests, rivers, and even the big city exploring the world and discovering its secrets. They work, play, and learn together, winning the day by relentlessly solving whatever puzzles or problems lie in store. Manford and his friends are upbeat, positive, and funny. They portray strong personal values, showing how friendship, persistence, self_reliance, and teamwork lead to success.
Download or read book Steller Sea Lion and Northern Fur Seal Research Purpose and need Alternatives Affected environment Environmental consequences National Environmental Policy Act compliance implementation and recommendations List of preparers List of agencies organizations and persons whom the draft EIS was sent References Index written by United States. National Marine Fisheries Service. Office of Protected Resources. Permits Division and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation written by Ian L. Boyd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marine mammals command a high level of public attention, reflected in specific legislation for their protection and management in many countries. They also present particular challenges to ecologists and conservation biologists. They are mostly difficult to observe, they occupy an environment that is vast in its three dimensional extent, there are often perceived conflicts between marine mammals and people, and furthermore several species are now close to extinction. Marine mammals have some intriguing features in their biology - the ability to dive to crushing depths, to perform breath-hold dives that defy our current understanding of mammalian physiology, and many have an ability to hunt down prey using sophisticated sonar that we are only just beginning to understand. Many species also have complex social structures. We still have much to learn about these extraordinary animals so a comprehensive and authoritative overview of current methodology is now timely. The intention of this book is both to summarize the state-of-the-art and to encourage innovation and further progress in this research field.
Download or read book Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Draft EIS provides decision-makers and the public with an evaluation of the environmental, social, and economic effects of alternative harvest strategies for the federally managed groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI). The EIS examines alternative harvest strategies that comply with Federal regulations, the Fishery Management Plans for the GOA and BSAI groundfish fisheries, and the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The harvest strategies are applied to the best available scientific information to derive the total allowable catch for the groundfish fisheries.
Download or read book Nominations to the U S Coast Guard the Department of Commerce the National Transportation Safety Board the Marine Mammal Commission and the Amtrak Board of Directors written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Frontiers of Engineering written by National Academy Of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, the National Academy of Engineering initiated the Frontiers of Engineering Program, which brings together about 100 young engineering leaders at annual symposia to learn about cutting-edge research and technical work in a variety of engineering fields. The 2009 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium was held at The National Academies' Arnold O. and Mabel Beckman Center on September 10-12. Speakers were asked to prepare extended summaries of their presentations, which are reprinted in this volume. The intent of this book is to convey the excitement of this unique meeting and to highlight cutting-edge developments in engineering research and technical work.
Download or read book The Economics of Protected Marine Species Concepts in Research and Management written by Kristy Wallmo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protected marine species have populations that are depleted, decreasing, or are at-risk of extinction or local extirpation. As of 2015 The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a global environmental organization, lists approximately 737 marine species worldwide that are considered at risk of extinction. Many are provided legal protection through national laws requiring research and management measures aimed at recovering and maintaining the species at a sustainable population level. Integral to the policy decision process involving the management and recovery of marine species is the consideration of trade-offs between the economic and ecological costs and benefits of protection. This suggests that economics, at its core the study of trade-offs, has a significant role. In the U.S. a somewhat traditional use of economics in protected species research and management has involved cost minimization or cost-effectiveness analyses to help select or prioritize conservation actions. Economic research has also provided estimates of public non-market benefits of recovering species, which can be used in larger management frameworks such as ecosystem based management and coastal and marine spatial planning. Inherent in much of this research, however, are complex biological and ecological relationships in which varying degrees of scientific uncertainty are present. Addressing this type of uncertainty can affect the economic outcomes related to protected species. For example, recent work suggests that increasing scientific precision in biological sampling and models can greatly affect the magnitude of economic benefits to commercial fisheries, while other research suggests that public non-market benefits of species recovery are sensitive to uncertainty about baseline population estimates. Previous research has illustrated the importance of understanding the biological, ecological, and economic aspects of protected species management and recovery. In this research topic we synthesize current protected marine species economic research and expand the discussion on present and future challenges related to protected species economics. The series of manuscripts brings together an array of prominent researchers and advances our understanding of the ecological and economic aspects of managing and recovering protected marine species.
Download or read book Steller Sea Lions Eumetopias Jubatus of Oregon and Northern California written by Jonathan Scordino and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Steller Sea Lion Research Initiative was passed in 2001 to provide funding to help scientists determine causes and solutions for the population crash of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus). In response to need to understand population dynamics of Steller sea lions, NOAA Fisheries has spearheaded a large-scale, range-wide research program. The study involved capturing and hot-iron branding sea lions at rookeries from northern California around the Pacific Rim to Russia to provide individually recognizable animals for studies of behavior and vital rates. I report the results of monitoring pups branded and tagged at Rogue Reef, Oregon and St. George Reef, California to determine movement patterns and the affects of branding on apparent survival of Steller sea lion pups immediately after branding. Counts of Steller sea lion adult female, adult male, juveniles, and pups were collected at haulouts and rookeries of Oregon and northern California from 2002 through 2005. Movement patterns of Steller sea lions were inferred from count data. Adult males were seasonal inhabitants of Oregon and California during the breeding season from May through September before dispersing to northern feeding grounds. Females, juveniles, and pups were dispersed throughout haulouts in Oregon and northern California during all seasons but have seasonally high concentrations at Sea Lion Caves, Oregon in the winter and at the breeding rookeries during the summer breeding season. The high wintertime abundance of females and pups at Sea Lion Caves suggests that it should be considered as critical habitat for Steller sea lions of the eastern stock. Resights of marked sea lions collected between northern California and Alaska between 2001 and 2005 were analyzed to determine juvenile and pup dispersal patterns. Most pups stay close to their natal rookery, although 9 - 22% of individuals each year were observed to disperse further than 500 km. As 1-year olds, the mean maximum dispersal range expanded, which may have been a sign of weaning. Sexually dimorphic patterns in sea lion movements were apparent at 3 years of age as males were observed to disperse farther north than females. The percentage of females observed at their natal rookery increased each year to a maximum of 87% as 4-year-olds. This suggested that sexual maturity occurs at, or close to, 4 years of age for females. Branding provided a useful tool for analyzing movements of Steller sea lions, yet it may have impacts on survival of individuals. Concerns raised by NOAA Fisheries over branding impacts on pup survival were addressed with a study at Rogue Reef in 2005. One-hundred-and-sixty pups captured on 18 July, 2005 were randomly assigned to a treatment of flipper tag only (unbranded pups) or flipper tag and hot-iron branding (branded pups). Aside from the treatment of branding, all pups were handled and treated identically. Over the 73-day course of this study, I found lower apparent survival for branded pups than unbranded pups, with a final apparent survivorships of 0.23 (95% CI 0.01? 0.48) for branded pups and 0.46 (95% CI 0.15? 0.77) for unbranded pups. Apparent survivorship includes both mortality and emigration, so differences may be due to differences in emigration rates of the two groups, mortality rates, or both. The scope of inference for this study is only to Rogue Reef in 2005. However, it should provide a good model for future brand evaluation studies at other rookeries and for other pinniped species. Branding is currently the best and only available tool for long-term studies of survival, reproduction rates, and age at sexual maturity which are all critical for demographic models. Nonetheless, researchers should assess the impacts of branding at each rookery, and will need to consider whether knowledge from branding Steller sea lions is worth the potential reduction in pup survival or change in pup emigration behavior observed in this study.
Download or read book A Review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-09-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean research offers countless benefits, from improving fisheries management to discovering new drugs to enabling early detection of tsunamis and hurricanes. At the request of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST), the National Research Council convened a committee to review the draft and final versions of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy described in Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade, which represents the first coordinated national ocean research planning effort involving all federal agencies that support ocean science. The plan presents an ambitious vision for ocean research that will be of great benefit to the ocean sciences community and the nation. This book contains both sets of findings (i.e., the committee's review of the JSOST's draft plan [A Review of the Draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States] and the review of the final plan). This book recommends that JSOST employ a variety of outreach mechanisms to continue to engage nonfederal partners in ocean research planning efforts, such as establishing external committees to provide scientific and technical advice and to review progress on implementation of the research plan.
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Download or read book Nominations to the Executive Office of the President Department of Transportation Department of Commerce and the Marine Mammal Commission written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracking marine megafauna for conservation and marine spatial planning written by Jorge M. Pereira and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Marine Mammal Commission written by United States. Marine Mammal Commission and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
