Humpback Whales in Glacier Bay

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Author

United States. Marine Mammal Commission

Title

Humpback Whales in Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Tom Cosmas, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (Alaska)

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Text

eBook-No.

37101

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37101

Release Date

August 15, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.HUMPBACK WHALES — IN GLACIER BAY — NATIONAL MONUMENT, ALASKA — MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. — FEBRUARY 1980 — Report No. MMC-79/01
2. 2.HUMPBACK WHALES IN GLACIER BAY NATIONAL MONUMENT, ALASKA — Marine Mammal Commission 1625 I Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 — Published February 1980 — U.S. Marine Mammal Commission 1625 I Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006 — NOTICE
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF TABLES
5. 5.LIST OF FIGURES
6. 6.PREFACE
7. 7.INTRODUCTION
8. 8.BACKGROUND — FIGURE 1. Map showing location of Glacier Bay, Lynn Canal and Fredrick Hole in Southeast Alaska Alexander Archipelago (from Jurasz and Jurasz, 1979) — FIGURE 2. Soundings in Fathoms (NOS Chart 17300) — FIGURE 3. GLACIER BAY, ALASKA SHOWING FORMER POSITIONS OF TERMINI 1760-1966 (from Hale and Wright, 1979) — TABLE 1. Relative abundance and distribution of identified humpback whales in southeast Alaskan waters 1967-79 [a] — TABLE 2. Number of humpback whales (individual census) entering Glacier Bay during "influxes". (modified from Jurasz and Jurasz, 1979) — TABLE 3. Age composition of humpback whales per year in Glacier Bay (modified from Jurasz and Jurasz, 1979) — TABLE 4. Juraszs' description of "stress behavior" (Progressing from the least "stressful" to the most "stressful") (modified from Jurasz and Jurasz, 1979.) — TABLE 5. Juraszs' vessel/aircraft classes (after Jurasz and Jurasz, 1979)
9. 9.POSSIBLE CAUSE-EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN HUMAN USE OF GLACIER BAY AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF HUMPBACK WHALES FROM THE BAY [5] — TABLE 6. Number of visitors and vessels to Glacier Bay National Monument. [a] — Figure 4. COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL VISITS TO GLACIER BAY (from Hale and Wright, 1979) — Figure 5. COMMERCIAL FISHING ACTIVITY GLACIER BAY (from Hale and Wright, 1979) — FIGURE 6. FISHING CHARTER BOATS AND PRIVATE BOAT VISITS TO GLACIER BAY 1970-1977 (from Hale and Wright, 1979)
10. 10.ADEQUACY OF EXISTING DATA
11. 11.MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH ACTIVITIES TAKEN OR UNDER CONSIDERATION [6]
12. 12.ALTERNATIVE MANAGEMENT ACTIONS
13. 13.IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING THE MOST APPROPRIATE RESEARCH/MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
14. 14.AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES AND NEED FOR COOPERATION AND COORDINATION
15. 15.SUMMARY
16. 16.REFERENCES
17. 17.APPENDIX A — AGENDA
18. 18.APPENDIX B
19. 19.APPENDIX C
20. 20.APPENDIX D
21. 21.Transcriber's Notes
22. 22.Typographical Corrections

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