North Pacific ‘blob’ stirs up fisheries management

Fisheries observers as enforcement assets: Lessons from the North Pacific

Fisheries observers can both collect scientific data and report on compliance with fisheries regulations. Observers are used only for scientific purposes in most US fisheries. However, North Pacific groundfish fisheries observers are required to report violations of fisheries regulations that they witness. Based on evaluation of historical enforcement incidents and survey data, this paper consi...

North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:1158-1172, 1997

─Westslope cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarki lewisi now occupy less than 5% of the subspecies' historical range within the upper Missouri River drainage in Montana. We assessed the risk of extinction for 144 known populations inhabiting streams within federally managed lands in the upper Missouri River basin using a Bayesian viability assessment procedure that estimates probability of persist...

Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency

North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:1144-1157, 1997 American Fisheries Society 1997

─Public agencies are being asked to quantitatively assess the impact of land management activities on sensitive populations of salmonids. To aid in these assessments, we developed a Bayesian viability assessment procedure (BayVAM) to help characterize land use risks to salmonids in the Pacific Northwest. This procedure incorporates a hybrid approach to viability analysis that blends qualitative...

President's Cancer Panel stirs up environmental health community.

T he President’s Cancer Panel released a report May 6 on reducing environmental pollutants and generated substantial controversy — not surprising, given its proposals for radical change in the way pollutants are regulated. “In all my years in cancer research, I can’t recall ever seeing something like this coming from such a mainstream source,” David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., wrote (favorably of t...