National Seabird Workshop: Building a National Plan to Improve the State of Knowledge and Reduce Commercial Fisheries Impacts on Seabirds (open access)

National Seabird Workshop: Building a National Plan to Improve the State of Knowledge and Reduce Commercial Fisheries Impacts on Seabirds

The following document provides the results of the 2009 National Seabird Workshop hosted by the NSP National Coordinator. The workshop's primary goal was to initiate the development of a National Seabird Implementation Plan that can be used to describe NMFS seabird activites and important partnerships with other management agencies, guide NMFS seabird management and science, and provide seabird-related input into NOAA's strategic planning and budgeting process.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Rivera, Kim S.; Ballance, Lisa T.; Benaka, Lee; Breuer, Eric R.; Brooke, Samantha G.; Fitzgerald, Shannon M. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service Automated Image Processing Workshop (open access)

Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service Automated Image Processing Workshop

From introduction: This report is a summary of presentations and discussions from a workshop on automated image processing conducted in Seattle, Washington, from 4-7 September, 2010. The objective of the workshop was to examine current and future applications of automated image processing for fisheries and marine ecology research.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Williams, Kresimir; Rooper, Chris & Harms, John
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessment: 2012 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessment: 2012

This is an assessment report based on the population of marine mammals along the Pacific coastline in the year 2012. It is a working document that will continue to be updated as data changes.
Date: January 2013
Creator: Carretta, James V.; Oleson, Erin; Weller, David W.; Lang, Aimee R.; Forney, Karin A.; Baker, Jason et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating Natural Mortality in Stock Assessment Application (open access)

Estimating Natural Mortality in Stock Assessment Application

The following document is a report taken during a three-day workshop to estimate natural mortality for use in stock assessment applications. The workshop covered biological aspects of mortality, methods for estimation of mortality, and best practices for use of mortality in assessment models. This document presents the findings during this workshop.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Brodziak, Jon; Ianelli, Jim; Lorenzen, Kai & Methot, Richard D., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2011 (open access)

U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments: 2011

This is an assessment report on the population of marine mammals along the U.S. Pacific coastline. These reports are ever-growing and subject to change annually.
Date: December 15, 2011
Creator: Caretta, James V.; Forney, Karin A.; Oleson, Erin; Martien, Karen; Muto, Marcia M.; Lowry, Mark S. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library