Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee 2006 - 2010
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Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee Reference Materials 2006 - 2010
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 , November 2007
- Consultation Timeline
- Meeting Notices
- Council three meeting outlook
- Committee Contact Information
- Proposal Format (.doc)
- 72 FR 72676, December 21, 2007 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 . 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 , May 2006
- U.S. District Court Order , May 2006
- Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973
- Destruction or Adverse Modification Guidance
- Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972
- Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, as amended through October 1996
- January 2003 Final Rule to implement SSL protection measures
- December 2004 Final Rule to revise SSL protection measures
Related Documents and Analyses
- Draft Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) and Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Groundfish Fisheries Section 7 Consultation - Draft 2010 Biological Opinion, August 2010
- Revision to the action for the reinitiation of Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 Consultation for the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries, January 2010
- Steller Sea Lion Draft Recovery Plan
- 2005 Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Report
- Biological Assessment of the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries and NMFS Managed Endangered Species Act Listed Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles
- 2006 Non-pup counts
- Draft BiOp chapters
- 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
- Biological Opinion for Listed Species In the BSAI Groundfish FMP and the GOA Groundfish FMP
- Review of the November 2000 Biological Opinion and Incidental Take Statement with respect to the Western Stock of the Steller seal lion
- Biological Assessment for Reinitiation of Consultation for Amendments 61/61 and 70/70
- Final Supplement to the Endangered Species Act, Biological Opinion and Incidental Take Statement of October 2001 , 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
- Maps (through 2010)
- NMFS Reporting Areas
- SSL Critical Habitat
- GOA areas
- Cod Non-trawl
- Cod Trawl
- Pollock and Atka
- SSL Conservation Area
- Historical Maps
- All federal closures
- Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee
- 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
- Is It Food II - Workshop Report
- Accounting of SSL Mortality, Loughlin and York 2001
- Seasonal and Spatial Differences in the Western Stock of SSLs, Sinclair and Zepplin
- Temporary Captivity as a Research Tool: Comprehensive Study of Wild Pinnipeds Under Controlled Conditions, Mellish et al.
- Habitat Requirements and Extinction Risks of Eastern North Pacific Right Whales - AFSC Report
- Deep genetic subdivision within a continuously distributed and highly vagile marine mammal, the Steller’s sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus)
- Economic Valuation news article
2010
January 26-28, 2010
- Agenda
- Handouts
- Letter from NMFS to NPFMC Update on the Steller Sea Lion Groundfish Fisheries Biological Opionion
- Table d4.1. Summary of catch (mt) in critical habitat by zones from 1991-2008 in the Bering Sea area
- Table RCA 4.1. The catch of pollock, Pacific cod, Atka mackerel, and arrowtooth flounder by critical habitat zone, 1991-2008 in RCA 1. There is no critical habitat foraging zone designated for this Area.
- Table RCA-1999-2008-Area 1. Comparison of the change from 1999 and 2008 as a percent of the portion of catch in critical habitat taken by specific gear by zones within Area 1
- Presentations
- Publications Discussed
- Durban et al. (in press): Mark-recapture estimate of the number of transient killer whales using coastal waters from the Central GOA to the Central Aleutians.
- Conners and Munro (2008). Effects of commercial fishing on local abundance of Pcod in the Bering Sea
- Kuker and Barrett-Lennard (2010). Evaluation of role of killer whale predation in the decline of sea otters in the Aleutians.
- February 2010 memo from NMML summarizing results of SSL food habits study conducted in June 2009 at Dalnoi Point, St. George.
2008
January 6-8, 2008
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes - to be compiled post-meeting
- New SSL timeline (XLS)
- NPFMC Three meeting outlook
- Federal Register NOI
- Proposal Information
2007
October 16-18
- Agenda
- Meeting minutes
- Goals and Objectives
- Presentations
- Lewis - analytical database products
- Lepore
- Fritz - latest SSL survey info presentation and memo
June 19-21
- Meeting Minutes
- Loughlin review of ESA recovery criteria
- 2007 Draft Recovery Plan
- Comparison Outline
- Differences between 2006 and 2007 documents
- June 2006 Meeting Minutes
- Terms of Reference for CIE review
- Terms of Reference for NPRB Review
- NMFS Recovery Plan Guidelines
- NMFS Responses to Comments received on May 2006 draft SSL recovery plan
- PRT updates
May 7-10
- Agenda and Detailed Agenda
- Meeting Minutes and handouts
- Presentations
- Wade - Killer Whales
- Gaichas - AIEP
- Full Text of Draft AIEP Plan
- Northern Fur Seal
- Berman - Economics
- Logerwell - FIT update
- Fritz - SSL Update
- Mabry - PRT scores
April 17-19
- Meeting Minutes
- Research Presentations
- Proposal Presentations
- AI pollock
- AI cod
- AI mackerel
- Kelty
- NPLA
- Sutwik
- Dalnoi pres and report
- Ugat
- Chernabura
- Jude
- PRT Scoring subcommittee
- Report
- Outside the Model Considerations (TXT)
- Correspondence
- NMFSletter to ADF&G on schedule
- NMFS letter to ADF&G on BOF proposal
- NMFS letter to NPFMC
January 8-9
- Agenda
- Guidelines to proposers
- Proposal Ranking Tool (PRT) January report
- Meeting Minutes
2006 Minutes, Presentations and Papers
- February 15
- April 25-27
- Presentations
- List of Papers
- Worldwide distribution and Abundance of Killer Whales, Forney and Wade
- Feeding Ecology of Eastern North Pacific Killer Whales, Herman, et al.
- Estimating Abundance of Killer Whales in Nearshore Waters, Zerbini, et al.
- Use of Chemical Profiles in Assessing Feeding Ecology, Krahn, et al.
- Fecundity Declines in SSL – New Conservation Priorities, Holmes, et al.
- SSL Age Structure, Holmes, et al.
- Supplementary Methods, Holmes
- Assessing the Role of Predators in Ecological Communities, Williams
- Sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: An ongoing legacy of industrial whaling? Spring, et al.
- May 16-18
- Presentations
- Trade-off Tool Overview, Criteria, DeMaster: .pdf, .xls
- Compendium of SSL Research 2000-2006 (updated 6/21/06)
- Reference companion (Excel spreadsheets - updated 6/21/06)
- Compendium Presentation, Loughlin
- Steller Sea Lion Telemetry and Diet Studies, Fadley (Large PPT file: 25 MB)
- Humpback Whales, SPLASH Project
- North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium, Trites
- 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.
- Fishery Interaction Team (FIT)
- State of Alaska, Department of Fish and Game
- Alaska Sea Life Center
- ASLC Steller Sea Lion Research - A Brief Overview
- Developing New Techniques to Assess the Impact of Prey Availability and Predation on Steller Sea Lion Populations, Norberg
- Contaminants in Steller's Sea Lions, Myers/Atkinson
- Remote Video Monitoring of Steller Sea Lions, Maniscalco
- Associations Between The Alaska Steller Sea Lion Decline and Commercial Fisheries, Hennen
- The SSL Decline and The GOA/BS Commercial Fishery, Hennen Dissertation
- SSL and Fisheries Interactions, Hennen
- The Transient Project, Melish
- Presentations
- June 26
- Presentations
- Dan Hennen SSL Fisheries Interactions
- Nicole Kimball Pacific Cod
- Peggy Merritt Presentation and Paper
- Greg O'Corry -Crowe
- John Bickham
- Steve Barbeux
- Presentations
- June 27-30
- July 25-27
- August 28-30
- SSC Documents
- SSC Meeting Agenda and Minutes
- Merritt presentation to SSC
- Presentations
- Reports
- Proposal Tool Report Part 1 and Part 2
- Maschener - Archaelogical Info
- Glacial refugia and the phylogeography of Steller's sea lion (Eumatopias jubatus) in the North Pacific
- GAP Report - Kate Wynne, Kodiak
- TAC/Biomass info from AFSC
- Agency Letter on timeline for consultation
- SSC Documents
- September 12-13
- Meeting Materials
- Draft chapters of BiOp
- BiOp Presentation
- Proposal Ranking Tool Update
- Oct NPFMC Agenda
- Meeting Materials
- October 30,31 and November 1
- Meeting Materials
- NPFMC SSLMC PRT Presentation
- Updated PRT Report
- Updated State Fisheries Report
- Fay and Punt paper
- Holmes et al draft
- SSC minutes from October NPFMC
- 2006 non-pup conts
- Bycatch Tables from AFSC
- Meeting Materials
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