Section 7 Consultation Under the Endangered Species Act
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) and Gulf of Alaska (GOA) Groundfish Fisheries Section 7 Consultation - Draft Biological Opinion, August 2010
NOTE: The Final Biological Opinion was published December 2010.
Public Comment Period
The public comment period closed
on September 3, 2010.
- Draft Groundfish Biological Opinion
- Draft Opinion (entire draft: 14 MB)
- Executive Summary and Chapters (2 MB)
- Appendices (3 MB)
- Figures and Tables (9 MB)
- News Release: NOAA extends public comment timeline on Steller sea lion proposal
- News Release: More actions needed to help western Steller sea lion recover
- Alaska Regional Office
- Letter from NMFS to the NPFMC on the Biological Opinion Review Process, August 2010
- Peer Review Process for the Draft Biological Opinion, August 2010
- Alaska Fishery Science Center White Papers
- Efficacy of trawl exclusion zones for preserving Atka mackerel
- Analysis of At-Sea Juvenile Steller sea lion location distribution for groundfish fishery BiOp 2009, January 2010
- Steller sea lion fishery and oceanographic analysis BiOp 2010, February 2010
- Projections of Atka mackerel and Pacific cod catch reductions, July 2010
- Aleutian Islands trawl survey biomass summary, July 2010 (updated version posted 8/5/10)
- North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC)
- Section 7 Consultation Initiation and Extension of Schedule
- Steller Sea Lion Mitigation Committee: February 2006 - January 2008 meetings and documents
- NMFS memorandum requesting reinitiation of
Section 7 Consultation for Groundfish FMPs, April 2006
- Biological Assessment of the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries and NMFS Managed Endangered Species Act Listed Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles, April 2006
- NMFS memorandum initiating formal Section 7 Consultation for Groundfish FMPs, June 2006
- NMFS memorandum responding to initiation and timeline of Section 7 Consultation for Groundfish FMPs, June 2006
- NPFMC letter to NMFS regarding new data to include in Section 7 Consultation, April 2009
- NMFS letter to NPFMC agreeing to inclusion of new survey data (see below) in the Section 7 Consultation and schedule extension, May 2009
- Information Relevant to the May 2009 NMFS Letter to NPFMC
- 1. 2009 pup survey
- 2. 2009 non-pup surveys in portions of southeast Alaska and the Gulf of Alaska
- 2008 pup and non-pup surveys: 2008 (additional information), June-July 2008 survey
- 3. Alaska Sea Life Center study: Evidence for high natality rates among Steller sea lions in the Gulf of Alaska, 2009, Maniscalco, J. M., D. Hennen, P. Parker, Alaska SeaLife Center Tech. Rep. ASLC-0901,
Seward, AK, 28 p.
- Letter from Alaska
Fisheries Science Center regarding review of Maniscalco et al.,
ASLC-0901, April 2009
- Alaska Fisheries Science Center Review of Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC) Technical Report ASLC-0901 "Evidence for high natality rates among Steller sea lions in the Gulf of Alaska" (Maniscalco, Hennen and Parker), April 2009
- Estimating Natality Rate of Steller Sea Lions at Chiswell Island Rookery, Alaska Devin S. Johnson National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
- Review of "Evidence for high natality rates among Steller sea lions in the Gulf of Alaska", Eli Holmes, National Marine Fisheries Service, April 2009
- Age-structured modeling reveals long-term declines in the natality of western Steller sea lions, 2007, NMML, Holmes, E. E., L. W. Fritz, A. E. York, and K. Sweeney, Ecological Applications.
- Using age structure to detect impacts on threatened populations: a case study with Steller sea lions, 2003, NMML, Holmes, E. E., and A. E. York, Conservation Biology, 17:1794-1806. (external link)
- Letter from Alaska
Fisheries Science Center regarding review of Maniscalco et al.,
ASLC-0901, April 2009
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