Sustainable Fisheries Division - Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee
Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee Reference Materials
Last updated: February 28, 2008
Table of Contents
- Logistical Information - Meetings, Implementation Schedule, Contact Information
- SSLMC Proposals and BOF Package, May 2007
- Regulations and Judicial Actions
- Related Documents and Analyses
- Protection Measure Maps
- Websites
- Other Research
- Meeting Minutes, Presentations and Papers
- Implementation Schedule (PDF), November 2007
- Agendas, Minutes and Handouts
- Consultation Timeline (PDF)
- Meeting Notices
- Council three meeting outlook (PDF)
- Committee Contact Information (PDF)
- Proposal Format (.doc)
- 72 FR 72676, December 21, 2007 (PDF). The North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee will meet in Seattle, WA at the Nexus Hotel (January 6) and the Alaska Fishery Science Center (January 7 and 8).
- 72 FR 56060, October 2, 2007 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion Mitigation committee meeting October 16-18, 2007, Seattle, WA.
- 72 FR 31057, June 5, 2007 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee meeting in Seattle, WA, on June 19–21, 2007.
- 72 FR 18461, April 12, 2007 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee meeting May 7-10, Seattle, WA.
- 72 FR 13750, March 23, 2007 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee meeting April 16–17, Juneau, AK.
- 71 FR 76278, December 20, 2006 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee meeting, January 8-9, Anchorage, AK.
- 71 FR 56968, September 28, 2006 (PDF). The North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Sea Lion Mitigation Committee (SSLMC) will meet in Seattle, WA, October 30 - Nov 1, 2006.
- 71 FR 56968, September 28, 2006 (PDF). The North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s Sea Lion Mitigation Committee (SSLMC) will meet in Anchorage, AK, October 16–18, 2006.
- 71 FR 51188, August 29, 2006 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion Mitigation committee meeting September 12-14, Seattle, WA.
- 71 FR 43475, August 1, 2006 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion Mitigation committee meeting August 28, Seattle, WA.
- 71 FR 43475, August 1, 2006 (PDF). Notice of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's Steller Sea Lion public teleconference August 25, 2006.
Regulations and Judicial Actions
Humane Society litigation against SSL research permits
- U.S. District Court Opinion (PDF), May 2006
- U.S. District Court Order (PDF), May 2006
- Related Analyses
- Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973 (PDF)
- Destruction or Adverse Modification Guidance (PDF)
- Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972 (PDF)
- Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, as amended through October 1996 (PDF)
- January 2003 Final Rule to implement SSL protection measures (PDF)
- December 2004 Final Rule to revise SSL protection measures (PDF)
- Pollock table (PDF)
- Cod table (PDF)
- Atka table (PDF)
- No fishing table (PDF)
Related Documents and Analyses
- Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Revisions to the Steller Sea Lion Protection Measures
- Steller Sea Lion Draft Recovery Plan (PDF)
- 2005 Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Report (PDF)
- Biological Assessment of the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries and NMFS Managed Endangered Species Act Listed Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles (PDF)
- 2006 Non-pup counts (PDF)
- Draft BiOp chapters (PDF)
- Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications Environmental Impact Statement, January 2007
- Considerations Relevant to the Process of Reinitiating Formal Section 7 Consultation on the Groundfish Fisheries of the North Pacific for Species Listed under the Endangered Species Act, October 2005 (PDF)
- Biological Opinion for Listed Species In the BSAI Groundfish FMP and the GOA Groundfish FMP (PDF)
- Review of the November 2000 Biological Opinion and Incidental Take Statement with respect to the Western Stock of the Steller seal lion (PDF)
- Biological Assessment for Reinitiation of Consultation for Amendments 61/61 and 70/70 (PDF)
- Final Supplement to the Endangered Species Act, Biological Opinion and Incidental Take Statement of October 2001 (PDF), June 2003
- List of Fisheries 1996 - Present
Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) Documents
- 2007 North Pacific Groundfish Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation Reports for 2008
- Historical North Pacific Groundfish Stock Assessments
- 2007 and 2008 Harvest Specifications
Protection Measures Maps
- MapViewer application (zip file)
1) Download the MapViewer .zip file (8.7 MB)
2) Unzip (decompress) the file
3) Install the application by clicking on setup.exe
4) Open the "NOAA Fisheries MapViewer" from your programs menu
- Current Maps
- NMFS Reporting Areas (PDF)
- SSL Critical Habitat
- GOA (PDF) areas
- Cod Non-trawl (PDF)
- Cod Trawl (PDF)
- Pollock and Atka (PDF)
- SSL Conservation Area (PDF)
- Historical Maps
- 1980 (PDF)
- 1990-1998 (PDF)
- 1999-2000 (PDF)
- 2000-2001 (PDF)
- June 01 – present (PDF)
- All federal closures (PDF)
- Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee
- NPFMC Protected Resources
- NOAA Fisheries Alaska Region
- NOAA Fisheries Steller Sea Lion website
- National Marine Mammal Laboratory
- North Pacific Fisheries Management Council
- ADF&G Commercial Fisheries Division
- Marine Mammal Research Consortium
- Gulf Apex Predator-prety Project
- ADFG and NMFS Telemetry Research 2001 (PDF)
- Is It Food II - Workshop Report (PDF)
- Accounting of SSL Mortality, Loughlin and York 2001 (PDF)
- Seasonal and Spatial Differences in the Western Stock of SSLs, Sinclair and Zepplin (PDF)
- Temporary Captivity as a Research Tool: Comprehensive Study of Wild Pinnipeds Under Controlled Conditions, Mellish et al. (PDF)
- Habitat Requirements and Extinction Risks of Eastern North Pacific Right Whales - AFSC Report (PDF)
- Deep genetic subdivision (PDF) within a continuously distributed and highly vagile marine mammal, the Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus)
- Economic Valuation (PDF) news article
2008
- Agenda (PDF)
- Meeting minutes - to be compiled post-meeting
- New SSL timeline (XLS)
- NPFMC Three meeting outlook (PDF)
- Federal Register NOI (PDF)
- Proposal Information
2007
October 16-18
- Agenda (PDF)
- Meeting minutes (PDF)
- Goals and Objectives (PDF)
- Presentations
- Lewis (PDF) - analytical database products
- Lepore (PDF)
- Fritz - latest SSL survey info presentation (PDF) and memo (PDF)
June 19-21
- Meeting Minutes (PDF)
- Loughlin review (PDF) of ESA recovery criteria
- 2007 Draft Recovery Plan (PDF)
- Comparison Outline (PDF)
- Differences (PDF) between 2006 and 2007 documents
- June 2006 Meeting Minutes (PDF)
- Terms of Reference (PDF) for CIE review
- Terms of Reference for NPRB Review (PDF)
- NMFS Recovery Plan Guidelines (PDF)
- NMFS Responses to Comments received on May 2006 draft SSL recovery plan
- Responses to Peer review (PDF) comments
- Responses to Public comments (PDF)
- PRT updates
May 7-10
- Agenda (PDF) and Detailed (PDF) Agenda
- Meeting Minutes (PDF) and handouts
- Presentations
- Wade - Killer Whales (PDF)
- Gaichas - AIEP (PDF)
- Full Text of Draft AIEP Plan (PDF)
- Northern Fur Seal (PDF)
- Berman - Economics (PDF)
- Logerwell - FIT update (PDF)
- Fritz - SSL Update (PDF)
- Mabry - PRT scores (PDF)
April 17-19
- Meeting Minutes (PDF)
- Research Presentations
- Mike Turek (PDF)
- Proposal Presentations
- AI pollock (PDF)
- AI cod (PDF)
- AI mackerel (PDF)
- Kelty (PDF)
- NPLA (PDF)
- Sutwik
- Dalnoi pres (PDF) and report (PDF)
- Ugat
- Chernabura
- Jude
- PRT Scoring subcommittee
- Report (PDF)
- Outside the Model Considerations (TXT)
- Correspondence
- NMFS letter to ADF&G (PDF) on schedule
- NMFS letter to ADF&G on BOF proposal (PDF)
- NMFS letter to NPFMC
- January 07 (PDF)
- March 07 (PDF)
January 8-9
- Agenda (PDF)
- Guidelines (PDF) to proposers
- Proposal Ranking Tool (PRT) January report (PDF)
- Meeting Minutes (PDF)
2006 Minutes, Presentations and Papers
- February 15 (PDF)
- April 25-27 (PDF)
- Presentations
- SSL Declining Fecundity, Holmes (PDF)
- North Pacific Right Whales, Clapham (PDF)
- Population Biology of Killer Whales, Wade (PDF)
- Lowell Fritz - SSL Status (PDF)
- List of Papers
- Worldwide distribution and Abundance of Killer Whales, Forney and Wade (PDF)
- Feeding Ecology of Eastern North Pacific Killer Whales, Herman, et al. (PDF)
- Estimating Abundance of Killer Whales in Nearshore Waters, Zerbini, et al. (PDF)
- Use of Chemical Profiles in Assessing Feeding Ecology, Krahn, et al. (PDF)
- Fecundity Declines in SSL – New Conservation Priorities, Holmes, et al. (PDF)
- SSL Age Structure, Holmes, et al. (PDF)
- Supplementary Methods, Holmes (PDF)
- Assessing the Role of Predators in Ecological Communities, Williams (PDF)
- Sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: An ongoing legacy of industrial whaling? Spring, et al. (PDF)
- Presentations
- May 16-18 (PDF)
- Presentations
- Trade-off Tool Overview, Criteria, DeMaster: .pdf, .xls
- Compendium of SSL Research 2000-2006 (PDF) (updated 6/21/06)
- Reference companion (Excel spreadsheets - updated 6/21/06)
- Compendium Presentation, Loughlin (PDF)
- Steller Sea Lion Telemetry and Diet Studies, Fadley (Large PPT file: 25 MB)
- Humpback Whales, SPLASH Project (PDF)
- North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium, Trites (PDF)
- Insights into the Timing of Weaning and the Attendance Patterns of Lactating Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska During Winter, Spring, and Summer, Trites, et al. (PDF)
- Fishery Interaction Team (FIT)
- State of Alaska, Department of Fish and Game
- Alaska Sea Life Center
- ASLC Steller Sea Lion Research - A Brief Overview (PDF)
- Developing New Techniques to Assess the Impact of Prey Availability and Predation on Steller Sea Lion Populations, Norberg (PDF)
- Contaminants in Steller's Sea Lions, Myers/Atkinson (PDF)
- Remote Video Monitoring of Steller Sea Lions, Maniscalco (PDF)
- Associations Between The Alaska Steller Sea Lion Decline and Commercial Fisheries, Hennen (PDF)
- The SSL Decline and The GOA/BS Commercial Fishery, Hennen Dissertation (PDF)
- SSL and Fisheries Interactions, Hennen (PDF)
- The Transient Project, Melish (PDF)
- Presentations
- June 26 (PDF)
- Presentations
- Dan Hennen SSL Fisheries Interactions (PDF)
- Nicole Kimball Pacific Cod (PDF)
- Peggy Merritt Presentation (PDF) and Paper (PDF)
- Greg O'Corry -Crowe (PDF)
- John Bickham
- Steve Barbeux
- Presentations
- June 27-30 (PDF)
- July 25-27 (PDF)
- August 28-30 (PDF)
- SSC Documents
- SSC Meeting Agenda and Minutes (PDF)
- Merritt presentation to SSC (PDF)
- Presentations
- Kate Wynne (PDF)
- Cathy Foy (PDF)
- Bob Foy (PDF)
- Reports
- Proposal Tool Report Part 1 (PDF) and Part 2 (PDF)
- Maschener (PDF) - Archaelogical Info
- Glacial refugia (PDF) and the phylogeography of Steller's sea lion (Eumatopias jubatus) in the North Pacific
- GAP Report (PDF) - Kate Wynne, Kodiak
- TAC/Biomass (PDF) info from AFSC
- Agency Letter (PDF) on timeline for consultation
- SSC Documents
- September 12-13 (PDF)
- Meeting Materials
- Draft chapters of BiOp (PDF)
- BiOp Presentation (PDF)
- Proposal Ranking Tool Update (PDF)
- Oct NPFMC Agenda (PDF)
- Meeting Materials
- October 30,31 and November 1 (PDF)
- Meeting Materials
- NPFMC SSLMC PRT Presentation (PDF)
- Updated PRT Report (PDF)
- Updated State Fisheries Report (PDF)
- Fay and Punt (PDF) paper
- Holmes et al (PDF) draft
- SSC minutes (PDF) from October NPFMC
- 2006 non-pup conts (PDF)
- Bycatch Tables from AFSC
- Documentation (PDF)
- Aleutian Islands (PDF)
- Eastern Bering Sea (PDF)
- Gulf of Alaska (PDF)
- Meeting Materials
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