Bilateral Scientific Workshop Process to Evaluate Effects of Salmon Fisheries on Southern Resident Killer Whales Preparing For Workshop #1

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Change in KW Abundance; Killer Whale; Killer whale
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.296.4854; http://essa.com/media/killerwhale/Reading-List-8-22-11.pdf

Workshop 1 will serve four primary purposes outlined below. Note that this outline is not meant to serve as the agenda for the workshop and may not reflect the final ordering of topics; a detailed agenda that identifies specific presentation topics and presenters will be distributed in advance of the workshop. 1. Establish and discuss the factual context: what do we know about threats to Southern Resident killer whales, their feeding habits, and the relationship between salmon abundance and killer whale population dynamics? 2. Present and discuss analyses done to date. 3. Identify and discuss key assumptions and uncertainties and the potentials for reducing them. 4. Identify and assign specific follow-up tasks for completion and presentation at Workshop 2. The diagram presented to the right represents the chain of logic used to