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Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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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,

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix F: Meeting Agendas." National Research Council. 2003. Decline of the Steller Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters: Untangling Food Webs and Fishing Nets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10576.
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For an unknown reason, the Steller sea lion population in Alaska has declined by 80% over the past three decades. In 2001, the National Research Council began a study to assess the many hypotheses proposed to explain the sea lion decline including insufficient food due to fishing or the late 1970s climate/regime shift, a disease epidemic, pollution, illegal shooting, subsistence harvest, and predation by killer whales or sharks. The report's analysis indicates that the population decline cannot be explained only by a decreased availability of food; hence other factors, such as predation and illegal shooting, deserve further study. The report recommends a management strategy that could help determine the impact of fisheries on sea lion survival -- establishing open and closed fishing areas around sea lion rookeries. This strategy would allow researchers to study sea lions in relatively controlled, contrasting environments. Experimental area closures will help fill some short-term data gaps, but long-term monitoring will be required to understand why sea lions are at a fraction of their former abundance.

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