APPENDIX F Meeting Agendas
MEETING 1
Doubletree Hotel
Seattle, Washington
August 22-23, 2001
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2001
OPEN SESSION
10:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Introductions—Bob Paine, Chair, and Susan Roberts, Study Director |
11:00 |
Presentations from the Sponsor—Chris Oliver and David Witherell, North Pacific Fishery Management Council |
12:00 p.m. |
Discussion |
12:30 |
Lunch |
1:00 |
Presentation from the National Marine Fisheries Service—Doug DeMaster, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center |
3:00 |
Discussion |
3:30 |
Break |
4:00 |
Presentation—Jack Tagart, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia and Vice Chair, Science and Statistical Committee, North Pacific Fishery Management Council |
4:30 |
Discussion |
5:00 |
Open session adjourns for the day |
THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2001
OPEN SESSION
8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:45 |
Welcome—Bob Paine, Chair, and Susan Roberts, Study Director |
9:00 |
Review of the Alaska fisheries and Steller sea lions—Gordon Kruse, Chair, Alaska Steller Sea Lion Restoration Team |
10:30 |
Break |
10:45 |
Discussion |
12:00 p.m. |
Meeting adjourns |
MEETING 2
Hotel Captain Cook
Anchorage, Alaska
October 29-30, 2001
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2001
OPEN SESSION
8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:15 |
Welcome—Bob Paine, Chair, and Susan Roberts, Study Director |
8:30 |
Dave Fraser, Owner and Captain,F/V Muir Milach |
9:00 |
Karl Haflinger, Sea State, Inc. |
9:30 |
Discussion |
9:45 |
Break |
10:00 |
Oliver Holm, Kodiak |
10:30 |
Helen Chythlook, Bristol Bay Native Association |
11:00 |
Frank Logusak, Togiak Traditional Council |
11:30 |
Discussion |
12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:00 |
Jack Sterne, Trustees for Alaska An Overview of the Steller Sea Lion Litigation and Its Relationship to the National Research Council’s Committee on Alaska Groundfish Fishery and Steller Sea Lions |
1:30 |
Ken Stump, consultant for Greenpeace and colitigants |
2:00 |
David Cline, World Wildlife Fund World Wildlife Fund Perspective on Steller Sea Lion Issues |
2:30 |
Linda Larson, Attorney for United Catcher Boats in Greenpeace v. National Marine Fisheries Service |
3:00 |
Break |
3:30 |
Gordon Kruse, member of the Committee on the Alaska Groundfish Fishery and Steller Sea Lions Videotaped interview with Ed Opheim, Kodiak—an historical perspective on Steller sea lions and the Alaskan fisheries |
4:00 |
Discussion and public comment |
5:30 |
Meeting adjourns for the day |
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2001
OPEN SESSION
8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:15 |
Welcome and Introductions—Bob Paine, Chair, and Susan Roberts, Study Director |
8:30 |
Shane Capron, National Marine Fisheries Service, Juneau Summary of the August 2001 Biological Opinion |
9:00 |
Dan Goodman, Montana State University Findings from the Independent Reviews of Past Biological Opinions |
9:30 |
Larry Cotter, Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association (Chair of the RPA committee) Update on the Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives |
10:00 |
Discussion |
10:15 |
Break |
10:30 |
Vladimir Burkanov, Natural Resources Consultants, Inc. Steller Sea Lion Populations in Japan and Russia |
11:00 |
Ken Pitcher, Alaska Department of Fish & Game |
11:30 |
Fritz Funk, Alaska Department of Fish & Game The Herring Fishery in Alaska |
12:00 p.m. |
Discussion |
12:15 |
Open session adjourns |
MEETING 3
The University Inn
4140 Roosevelt Way, NE
Seattle, WA 98105
December 9-12, 2001
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2001
OPEN SESSION
8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:15 |
Welcome—Bob Paine, Chair, and Susan Roberts, Study Director |
8:30 |
Kerim Aydin, University of Washington Ecopath and Ecosim in the Eastern Bering Sea: An Evaluation Focusing on Steller Sea Lion Issues |
9:00 |
Andrew Trites, Research Director, North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium, University of British Columbia North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium: Recent Research Findings |
9:30 |
Discussion |
9:45 |
Break |
10:00 |
Herb Maschner, Department of Anthropology, Idaho State University |
10:30 |
Boris Worm, Biology Department, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Cascading Fishery Effects and Multiple Stable States in Ocean Food Webs |
11:00 |
Doug DeMaster, Director, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Population Trends in Several Marine Mammal Populations in the North Pacific |
11:30 |
Discussion |
12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:00 |
Alan Springer, Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
1:30 |
George Hunt, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine |
2:00 |
Vernon Byrd, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Homer, Alaska Patterns of Change in Populations of Seabirds in the Western Gulf of Alaska and Southern Bering Sea Regions Since the Mid-1970s |
2:30 |
Discussion |
2:45 |
Break |
3:00 |
Doug Eggers, Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Juneau An Overview of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Fisheries for Herring, Salmon, and Pacific Cod, Managed by the State of Alaska |
3:30 |
Lowell Fritz, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration North Pacific Groundfish, Groundfish Fisheries, and Steller Sea Lions |
4:00 |
Glenn VanBlaricom, University of Washington Viability Models for the Conservation Status of Steller Sea Lions |
4:30 |
Discussion |
5:30 |
Meeting adjourns for the day |
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2001
OPEN SESSION
8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast |
8:30 |
Welcome and Introductions—Bob Paine, Chair, and Susan Roberts, Study Director |
8:45 |
Lee Alverson, Natural Resource Consultants, Inc. Setting the Scene: Trends in Fisheries, Fish Stocks, and Sea Lion Populations |
9:15 |
Russ Andrews, University of British Columbia Foraging Ecology of Steller Sea Lions |
9:45 |
Discussion |
10:15 |
Break |
10:30 |
Kate Wynne, Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, University of Alaska Prey Use by Steller Sea Lions Near Kodiak: Recent Findings of the Gulf Apex Predator-Prey Study |
11:00 |
Terrie Williams, University of California, Santa Cruz Predator-Prey Energetics for the Steller Sea Lions |
11:30 |
Discussion |
12:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
1:00 |
Tom Loughlin and Anne York, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service Steller Sea Lion and Northern Fur Seal Status and Trends |
1:45 |
Tom Gelatt, Alaska Department of Fish & Game Alaska Fish and Game Steller Sea Lion Research, Questions, |
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Answers, and More Questions |
2:15 |
Discussion |
2:45 |
Break |
3:00 |
Gary Thomas, Prince William Sound Science Center Steller Sea Lions and Herring |
3:30 |
Tim Ragen, Scientific Program Director, Marine Mammal Commission The Scientific Analysis of Competition Between Alaska Groundfish Fisheries and the Steller Sea Lion |
4:00 |
Discussion |
5:30 |
Meeting adjourns for the day |