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1: Seabird Interactions with Non-Treaty Sockeye Fishery in North Puget Sound, August 1994.
2: Marbled Murrelet
3: Objectives of the Study
4: Variables Collected By Onboard Observers
5: Method For Estimating Total Seabird Entanglements
6: Study Area
7: Estimated Non-Treaty Sockeye Gill Net Fishing Effort, Area 7 & 7A 1994
8: Common Murre
9: Rhino
10: Food Fish
11: Seabird Entanglements According to Location in Gillnet
12: Age Comparison of common murre and rhinoceros auklets entangled (%).
13: The Percent of All Observed Sets with Entangled Birds
14: The Percent of All Sets According to the Number of Birds Entangled in Any One Set
15: Estimated Seabird Entanglement Rates (Birds/Set) and Total Incidental Mortalities
16: Factors Associated with Probability of Bird Entanglement
17: Acknowledgements
The second most common seabirds entangled were rhinoceros auklets. Annual summer aerial surveys have counted from 10,000-25,000 birds in study area. Twenty-two percent of all birds entangled during the study were rhinos.
