Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait

Commercial vessel traffic through the Bering Strait is increasing. This region has high biological and cultural significance, to which commercial shipping poses several risks. For this environment, these risks include ship strikes of whales, noise disturbance, chronic pollution, and oil spills. Indi...

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Main Authors: Huntington, Henry P., Daniel, Raychelle, Hartsig, Andrew, Harun, Kevin, Heiman, Marilyn, Meehan, Rosa, Noongwook, George, Pearson, Leslie, Prior-Parks, Melissa, Robards, Martin, Stetson, George
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:eee:marpol:v:51:y:2015:i:c:p:119-127 2024-04-14T08:09:51+00:00 Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait Huntington, Henry P. Daniel, Raychelle Hartsig, Andrew Harun, Kevin Heiman, Marilyn Meehan, Rosa Noongwook, George Pearson, Leslie Prior-Parks, Melissa Robards, Martin Stetson, George http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X14002012 unknown http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X14002012 article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:27:52Z Commercial vessel traffic through the Bering Strait is increasing. This region has high biological and cultural significance, to which commercial shipping poses several risks. For this environment, these risks include ship strikes of whales, noise disturbance, chronic pollution, and oil spills. Indigenous Chukchi, Iñupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Siberian Yupik, and Yup’ik peoples may be affected by proximity between small hunting boats and large commercial vessels leading to swamping or collisions, through displacement of animals or impacts to food security from contaminants, and through loss of cultural heritage if archeological sites and other important places are disturbed by wakes or an increase in people spending time on shore. Several measures are available to govern shipping through the region, including shipping lanes, Areas to Be Avoided (ATBAs), speed restrictions, communications measures, reporting systems, emissions controls, oil spill prevention and preparedness and salvage, rescue tug capability, voyage and contingency planning, and improved charting. These measures can be implemented in various ways, unilaterally by the U.S. or Russia, bilaterally, or internationally through the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Regulatory measures can be established as voluntary measures or as mandatory measures. No single measure will address all risks, but the framework presented herein may serve as a means of identifying what needs to be done and evaluating whether the goal of safe shipping has been achieved. Bering Strait; Vessel traffic; Marine mammals; Seabirds; Subsistence; Mitigation; Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Strait Chukchi Siberian Yupik St Lawrence Island St. Lawrence Island Yupik Yupik RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Bering Strait Lanes ENVELOPE(18.933,18.933,69.617,69.617) Lawrence Island ENVELOPE(-103.718,-103.718,56.967,56.967)
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description Commercial vessel traffic through the Bering Strait is increasing. This region has high biological and cultural significance, to which commercial shipping poses several risks. For this environment, these risks include ship strikes of whales, noise disturbance, chronic pollution, and oil spills. Indigenous Chukchi, Iñupiaq, St. Lawrence Island Yupik, Siberian Yupik, and Yup’ik peoples may be affected by proximity between small hunting boats and large commercial vessels leading to swamping or collisions, through displacement of animals or impacts to food security from contaminants, and through loss of cultural heritage if archeological sites and other important places are disturbed by wakes or an increase in people spending time on shore. Several measures are available to govern shipping through the region, including shipping lanes, Areas to Be Avoided (ATBAs), speed restrictions, communications measures, reporting systems, emissions controls, oil spill prevention and preparedness and salvage, rescue tug capability, voyage and contingency planning, and improved charting. These measures can be implemented in various ways, unilaterally by the U.S. or Russia, bilaterally, or internationally through the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Regulatory measures can be established as voluntary measures or as mandatory measures. No single measure will address all risks, but the framework presented herein may serve as a means of identifying what needs to be done and evaluating whether the goal of safe shipping has been achieved. Bering Strait; Vessel traffic; Marine mammals; Seabirds; Subsistence; Mitigation;
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author Huntington, Henry P.
Daniel, Raychelle
Hartsig, Andrew
Harun, Kevin
Heiman, Marilyn
Meehan, Rosa
Noongwook, George
Pearson, Leslie
Prior-Parks, Melissa
Robards, Martin
Stetson, George
spellingShingle Huntington, Henry P.
Daniel, Raychelle
Hartsig, Andrew
Harun, Kevin
Heiman, Marilyn
Meehan, Rosa
Noongwook, George
Pearson, Leslie
Prior-Parks, Melissa
Robards, Martin
Stetson, George
Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait
author_facet Huntington, Henry P.
Daniel, Raychelle
Hartsig, Andrew
Harun, Kevin
Heiman, Marilyn
Meehan, Rosa
Noongwook, George
Pearson, Leslie
Prior-Parks, Melissa
Robards, Martin
Stetson, George
author_sort Huntington, Henry P.
title Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait
title_short Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait
title_full Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait
title_fullStr Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait
title_full_unstemmed Vessels, risks, and rules: Planning for safe shipping in Bering Strait
title_sort vessels, risks, and rules: planning for safe shipping in bering strait
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