- Mortality of Dungeness crabs due to lost traps and the cost benefit of removal in Washington state waters of the Salish Sea
- - Kyle Antonelis, Daniel Huppert, Don Velasquez, Jeff June
- The loss of Dungeness crabs Cancer magister due to lost traps was estimated from catches and mortalities in 24 simulated lost traps in two locations in Washington State. Equal numbers of recreational and commercial crab traps were initially baited and then monitored by divers weekly until the bait was consumed and then bi-weekly for one year. Crabs caught were individually tagged. Catch, escapement, retained catch and mortality rates were estimated. Part of the derelict fishing gear program
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- Publication Date: 2/22/2010
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 112.612 kbs
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- Derelict Fishing Gear Project Semi-Annual Progress Report to NOAA
- - Joan Drinkwin
- This report is an update on progress of the derelict fishing gear removal project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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- Publication Date: 1/28/2010
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 3582.331 kbs
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- Coast Salish and US Geological Survey Tribal Journey Water Quality Project
- - Sarah Akin, Eric Grossman
- In 2009, the Coast Salish People and U.S. Geological Survey conducted a second water quality study of the Salish Sea to investigate the Coast Salish ancestral waters and the response of its coastal environments to climate change and land use impacts. The ancestral waters comprise a large inland sea contained within the US (Puget Sound) and British Columbia, Canada (Georgia Straits). The Canoe Journey project is a partnership to examine water quality, blending tradition and science.
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- Publication Date: 12/31/2009
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 3870.182 kbs
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- Derelict Fishing Net Removal in Puget Sound
- - Northwest Straits Foundation, Joan Drinkwin, Ginny Broadhurst
- Thirty-one days of derelict fishing gear removal operations were conducted from October, 2008 through August, 2009. Removals were conducted in the San Juan archipelago at Lawson’s Reef and off of Lummi, Lopez, and San Juan Islands. One hundred twenty-three (123) derelict gillnets, 8 purse seines, and four crab pots were removed. Nets measured 16.2 acres. More than 8,000 animals were found entangled in the removed gear, including eight dead marine birds and 29 fish. Derelict gear program. Conoco
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- Publication Date: 10/21/2009
- Location: Northwest Straits
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- Ghosts of the Salish Sea: Threats to Marine Birds in Puget Sound and the Northwest Straits from Derelict Fishing Gear
- - Thomas P. Good, Jeffrey A. June, Michael A. Etnier, Ginny Broadhurst
- Derelict fishing gear—lost or abandoned commercial and recreational fishing nets, lines, pots and traps that sit or float underwater—can remain in the marine environment for years, trapping and killing marine birds. The goal of the analyses is to identify and explore patterns of gear type, condition, orientation and spatiotemporal relationships for the derelict gillnets recovered, particularly with respect to marine birds entangled therein.
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- Publication Date: 3/15/2009
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 415.773 kbs
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- Marine Habitat Recovery of Five Derelict Fishing Gear Removal Sites in Puget Sound, Washington
- - Natural Resources Consultants, Inc.
- This study showed that marine habitat service functions are negatively affected by derelict fishing gear. It showed that natural ocean processes succeed in restoring these service functions within a single growing season after derelict fishing gear removal for areas dominated by kelp. Eelgrass beds take longer to recover, but can improve by 30% in less than a year.
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- Publication Date: 2/11/2009
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 1739.469 kbs
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- Coast Salish and U.S. Geological Survey: Tribal Journey Water Quality Project
- - Sarah K. Akin, Eric E. Grossman, Debra Lekanof, Charles O Hara
- This report describes the Coast Salish Tribal Journey Water Quality Project, its inception, the results of the 2008 Tribal Journey project, lessons learned, and recommendation for future directions.
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- Publication Date: 12/1/2008
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 12298.475 kbs
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- Northwest Straits Foundation: Escape Cord Outreach Evaluation
- - Northwest Straits Foundation, Pamela Jull, Megan Blaney
- The Northwest Straits Foundation has been participating in education and outreach to recreational crab fishers.This report is a summary of an intercept survey model for assessing the impact of its escape cord (rot cord) education program.
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Education and Outreach
- Publication Date: 12/1/2008
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 78.909 kbs
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- Derelict Fishing Gear: Crab Pot Escape Cord Outreach Evaluation
- - Applied Research Northwest
- The Northwest Straits Foundation has been participating in education and outreach to recreational crab fishers. This report is an assessment of the project.
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- Publication Date: 12/1/2008
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 78.909 kbs
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- Port Susan Bay Targeted Interview Process
- - Tom Cowan, Port Susan Bay Working Group
- This report provides background and summarizes the results of 19 stakeholder interviews in Port Susan Bay. These interviews were conducted at the request of the Northwest Straits Foundation with direction from the Port Susan Bay Working Group. Interview information is intended to provide guidance to the Working Group on a vision statement and goals for a Port Susan Bay Marine Stewardship Area.
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- Publication Date: 8/18/2008
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 361.204 kbs
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- Northwest Straits Creosote Inventory and Removal Final Report
- - Northwest Straits Foundation
- The project narrative should identify the problems that the project has addressed, describe short‐ and long‐term objectives and goals and how they were met, and explain the relevance of the project to enhancing habitat and/or to benefiting living marine resources, including a description of any threatened or endangered species the project will benefit.
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- Publication Date: 6/30/2008
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 495.68 kbs
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- Rates of Marine Species Mortality Caused by Derelict Fishing Nets in Puget Sound, Washington
- - Northwest Straits
- During the spring and summer of 2007 the Northwest Straits Initiative and Natural Resources Consultants, Inc., began a derelict net monitoring project in Puget Sound, Washington, to study the rates at which derelict gillnets entangle marine animals and the decomposition processes those animals undertake after entanglement. This is one component of the larger derelict fishing gear (derelict gear) program.
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- Publication Date: 5/29/2008
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 327.286 kbs
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- Derelict Fishing Gear Priority Ranking Project
- - Northwest Straits Foundation
- This report identifies the highest priority areas in Puget Sound for derelict fishing gear removal based on objective criteria developed by experts in the field. It gives an estimate the total amount of derelict fishing gear accumulations throughout Puget Sound and the costs of removing 80-90 per cent of derelict fishing gear from the highest priority areas by 2012 based on estimated total accumulations and known removal costs.
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- Publication Date: 12/31/2007
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 322.762 kbs
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- Development of a Hydrodynamic Model of Puget Sound and Northwest Straits
- - Zhaoqing Yang, Tarang Khangaonkar
- Accurate simulation of hydrodynamics in Puget Sound including coastal circulation and transport in the nearshore areas has become an essential requirement for many projects in connection with coastal restoration and improvements to tidal marshland habitat and salmon migration. The Marine Sciences Laboratory of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed three-dimensional hydrodynamic models for several estuaries and coastal basins in Puget Sound to support restoration projects, and has
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- Publication Date: 12/18/2007
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 7853.153 kbs
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- A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Derelict Fishing Gear Removal In Puget Sound
- - Natural Resources Consultants Inc.
- Information collected over the past four years (2004-2007) during the Northwest Straits Initiative’s derelict gear survey and removal program in Puget Sound, Washington, was used to estimate costs and directly measurable benefits of derelict fishing gear removal.
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- Publication Date: 9/29/2007
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 151.238 kbs
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- Evaluation of Shore Stewards Program
- - Donna Gleisner, Chrys Bertolotto
- A report on the evaluation of the expansion of the Shore Stewards program.
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- Publication Date: 6/1/2007
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 178.74 kbs
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- Water Quality Research Needs Workshop Summary of Discussion
- - Northwest Straits Commission
- On November 15, 2006 the Northwest Straits Commission held a Water Quality Research Needs Workshop. This is the summary of what was discussed.
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- Publication Date: 12/21/2006
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 95.464 kbs
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- Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Progress Report
- - Joan Drinkwin, Ginny Broadhurst
- A progress report of the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative for the years 2004 and 2005.
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- Publication Date: 1/1/2006
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 831.396 kbs
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- A Sound Investment: The Northwest Straits Initiative
- - Northwest Straits Commission
- A five year progress report of the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative
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- Publication Date: 12/1/2005
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 1711.15 kbs
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- Five Year Evaluation Report
- - Northwest Straits Evaluation Panel, Bill Ruckelshaus
- The final report of the evaluation panel convened to fulfill the mandate of Congressional legislation (HR 3461), under which the Initiative was to “be given a full evaluation at five years by a nationally qualified group.
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- Publication Date: 4/6/2004
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 1343.007 kbs
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- The Incredible Egg Hunt: Finding forage Fish Spawning Habitats of the Northwest Straits, Washington (2001-2003)
- - Gary Wood
- A one page fact sheet of the background, methods, and results of finding forage fish spawning habitats of the Northwest Straits. Poster produced by Island County MRC.
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- Publication Date: 2/1/2003
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 627.341 kbs
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- Derelict Fishing Gear Removal Guidelines
- - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
- This document provides the guidelines for the environmentally acceptable removal and disposal of derelict fishing gear from the waters of Washington State.
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- Publication Date: 11/1/2002
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 142.024 kbs
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- Northwest Straits Nearshore Habitat Evaluation - Final Report
- - Anchor Environmental, L.L.C.
- The overall goal of this project was to evaluate nearshore habitat conditions in the Northwest Straits region by compiling, organizing, and analyzing existing nearshore habitat and resource datasets.
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- Publication Date: 1/1/2002
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 565.966 kbs
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- Northwest Straits Overview; A Science Gap Report
- - Washington Sea Grant Program, Office of Marine and Environmental & Resource Programs, University of Washington
- A background on data gaps and research needs for the Northwest Straits study area.
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- Publication Date: 4/1/2000
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 196.068 kbs
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- Report to the Convenors
- - Murray-Metcalf Northwest Straits Citizens Advisory
- The final report of the Murray-Metcalf Commission, convened to assess the ecological health of the Northwest Straits marine ecosystem and to recommend steps to improve the region’s sustainability.
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- Publication Date: 8/20/1998
- Location: Northwest Straits
- FileSize: 338.998 kbs
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