Background Documents for 2019 MSC Surveillance Audit of Alaska Salmon Fisheries

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Background Documents for 2019 MSC Surveillance Audit of Alaska Salmon Fisheries

The list below contains links to documents that the MRAG Americas Assessment Team for the Alaska salmon MSC surveillance audit will be using to inform the upcoming site visit. This is an evolving list, and stakeholders are encouraged to submit additional documents or links to documents that are missing from the list that the team should also consider. These will be added to this website as they are received. Please contact us at certification@mragamericas.com with additional documents for posting, or any questions or concerns.

Alaska Salmon 2019 Surveillance Audit documentation

Hatchery/Wild Interactions

Lescak, EA, KR S.edd, and TH Dann. 2019. Relative productivity of hatchery pink salmon in a natural stream. NPRB project 1619. Online: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/PDFs/hatcheries/research/2016_nprb_final_report.pdf

Lescak, E, K Shedd and T Dann. 2016. Relative productivity of hatchery pink salmon in a natural stream. Alaska Department of Fish and Game. NA16NMF4270251. Online: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/PDFs/hatcheries/research/2016_sk_final_report.pdf

State of Alaska Hatchery Research Project: A study of the interactions between hatchery and natural pink and chum salmon in Southeast Alaska and Prince William Sound streams Progress Synopsis June 2018. Online: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/PDFs/hatcheries/research/alaska_hatchery_research_project_synopsis_june_2018.pdf

Otis, EO, GJ Hollowell and EG Ford. 2018. Observations of Pink Salmon Hatchery Proportions in Selected Lower Cook Inlet Escapements, 2014–2017. Online: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/regulations/regprocess/fisheriesboard/pdfs/2018-2019/ws/SP18-11.pdf

Ocean Productivity

Eastern Bering Sea: https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/REFM/Docs/2018/BSAI/ecosysEBS.pdf

Aleutian Islands: https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/REFM/Docs/2018/BSAI/ecosysAI.pdf

Gulf of Alaska: https://www.afsc.noaa.gov/REFM/Docs/2018/GOA/ecosysGOA.pdf

Seabirds

Piatt, J.F., Kuletz, K.J., Burger, A.E., Hatch, S.A., Friesen, V.L., Birt, T.P. , Arimitsu, M.L., Drew, G.S., Harding, A.M.A., and K.S. Bixler, 2007, Status review of the Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in Alaska and British Columbia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1387, 258 p.

This report provides overviews of various aspects relevant to population threats and on the subject of murrelets and gillnet fisheries – and has many references therein. It includes a dedicated section on ‘Incidental Take in Fisheries’, (p.78-93), which provides a literature review and includes maps showing salmon gillnet fishery districts in Alaska that likely overlap with marbled murrelets. Also Fig 19 showing the seasonal extent of those fisheries. Figures 21 and 22 show Mamu distribution overlaid with salmon gillnet fishery districts for PWS and SEAK. Table 25 summarizes what was known to date (of this publication) re Mamu take in different fisheries. NOAAs data from Yakutat and SEAK are available in separate reports at: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/fisheries-observers/alaska-marine-mammal-observer-program

Piatt, J.F., Kuletz, K.J., Burger, A.E., Hatch, S.A., Friesen, V.L., Birt, T.P. , Arimitsu, M.L., Drew, G.S., Harding, A.M.A., and K.S. Bixler, 2007, Status review of the Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in Alaska and British Columbia: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1387, 258 p.

This report provides overviews of various aspects relevant to population threats and on the subject of murrelets and gillnet fisheries – and many references therein. There is also a dedicated section on ‘Incidental Take in Fisheries’, (p.78-93), which provides a literature review and includes maps showing salmon gillnet fishery districts in Alaska that likely overlap with marbled murrelets. Also Fig 19 showing the seasonal extent of those fisheries. Figures 21 and 22 show Mamu distribution overlaid with salmon gillnet fishery districts for PWS and SEAK. Table 25 summarizes what was known to date (of this publication) re Mamu take in different fisheries. NOAAs data from Yakutat and SEAK is available in separate reports at: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/fisheries-observers/alaska-marine-mammal-observer-program

Manly, B.F.J. 2015. Incidental Takes and Interactions of Marine Mammals and Birds in Districts 6, 7 and 8 of the Southeast Alaska Salmon Drift Gillnet Fishery, 2012 and 2013.

Manly, B.F.J. 2009. Incidental Take and Interactions of Marine Mammals and Birds in the Yakutat Salmon Setnet Fishery, 2007 and 2008.

Other references in Piatt et al. 2007:

Carter, H.R., and Sealy, S.G., 1984, Marbled Murrelet (Brachyramphus marmoratus) mortality due to gill-net fishing in Barkley Sound, British Columbia, in Nettleship, D.N., Sanger, G.A., and Springer, P.F., eds., Marine birds: Their feeding ecology and commercial fisheries relationships, Pacific Seabird Group Symposium, Seattle, Washington, 1985, p. 212-220.

Manly, B.F.J., 2006a, Incidental catch and interactions of marine mammals and birds in the Cook Inlet salmon driftnet and setnet fisheries, 1999-2000: Cheyenne, Wyoming, Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., Draft Final Report to National Marine Fisheries Service.

Manly, B.F.J., 2006b, Incidental take and interactions of marine mammals and birds in the Kodiak Island salmon set gillnet fishery, 2002 and 2005: Cheyenne, Wyoming, Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc., Final Report to National Marine Fisheries Service.

Manly, B.F.J., Van Atten, A.S., Kuletz, K.J., and Nations, C., 2003, Incidental catch of marine mammals and birds in the Kodiak Island set gillnet fishery in 2002: Cheyenne, Wyoming, WEST, Inc., Final Report to NOAA NMFS, 91 p.

Melvin, E.F., Parrish, J.K., and Conquest, L.L., 1999, Novel tools to reduce seabird bycatch in coastal gillnet fisheries: Conservation Biology, v. 13, no. 6, p. 1386-1397.

Melvin, E.F., Parrish, J.K., and Conquest, L.L., 2001, Novel tools to reduce seabird bycatch in coastal gillnet fisheries, in Melvin, E.F., and Parrish, J.K., eds., Seabird bycatch: Trends, roadblocks, and solutions: Fairbanks, University of Alaska Sea Grant, p. 161-184.

Pierce, D., Ritchie, W., and Kruezigar, R., 1994, Preliminary findings of seabird interactions with non-treaty salmon gillnet fishery: Puget Sound and Hood Canal, Washington: Olympia, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Wynne, K.M., Hicks, D.L., and Munro, N.R., 1991, 1990 Salmon gillnet fisheries observer programs in Prince William Sound and south Unimak Alaska: Anchorage, Alaska, Saltwater, Inc, Final Report to NOAA NMFS, 65 p.

Wynne, K.M., Hicks, D.L., and Munro, N.R., 1992, 1991 Marine mammal observer program for the salmon driftnet fishery of Prince William Sound: Anchorage, Alaska, Saltwater, Inc, Final Report to NOAA NMFS, 33 p.