Author: Sarah Allen MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seals (Animals)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Movement and Activity Patterns of Harbor Seals at the Point Reyes Peninsula, California
Author: Sarah Allen MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seals (Animals)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Shellfish Mariculture in Drakes Estero, Point Reyes National Seashore, California
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309138981
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
When Drakes Estero, which lies within the Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) about 25 miles northwest of San Francisco, California, was designated by Congress in 1976 as Potential Wilderness, it contained a commercial shellfish mariculture operation. Oyster mariculture began in Drakes Estero with the introduction of the nonnative Pacific oyster in 1932, and has been conducted continuously from that date forward. Hence, the cultural history of oyster farming predates the designation of Point Reyes as a National Seashore in 1962. Nevertheless, with the approach of the 2012 expiration date of the current National Park Service (NPS) Reservation of Use and Occupancy (RUO) and Special Use Permit (SUP) that allows Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) to operate within the estero, NPS has expressed concern over the scope and intensity of impacts of the shellfish culture operations on the estero's ecosystem. Public debate over whether scientific information justifies closing the oyster farm led to the request for this study to help clarify the scientific issues raised with regard to the shellfish mariculture activities in Drakes Estero.
The Seasonal Movements and Abundance Dynamics of the Pacific Harbor Seal (Phoca Vitulina Richardsi) Along the Southern Oregon Coast
Author: Michael Turner WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
NOAA Technical Report NMFS.
Author: Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Designation of a Deep Water Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site Off San Francisco, California
Author: The Oyster War
Author: Summer BrennanPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619026481
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
It all began simply enough. In 1976 the Point Reyes Wilderness Act granted the highest protection in America to more than 33,000 acres of California forest, grassland and shoreline – including Drakes Estero, an estuary of stunning beauty. Inside was a small, family–run oyster farm first established in the 1930s. A local rancher bought the business in 2005, renaming it The Drakes Bay Oyster Company. When the National Park Service informed him that the 40–year lease would not be renewed past 2012, he vowed to keep the farm in business even if it meant taking his fight all the way to the Supreme Court. Environmentalists, national politicians, scientists, and the Department of the Interior all joined a protracted battle for the estuary that had the power to influence the future of wilderness for decades to come. Were the oyster farmers environmental criminals, or victims of government fraud? Fought against a backdrop of fear of government corruption and the looming specter of climate change, the battle struck a national nerve, pitting nature against agriculture and science against politics, as it sought to determine who belonged and who didn't belong, and what it means to be wild.
Environmental Predictors of Habitat Use Patterns of Pacific Harbor Seals (Phoca Vitulina Richardii) in an Urbanized Estuary
Author: Emma Kathryn GriggNational Marine Pollution Program
Author: Dynamics of Abundance and Distribution for Pacific Harbor Seal, Phoca Vitulina Richardsi, on the Coast of California
Author: Doyle Alan HananPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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