Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council estotzatloh date December 1996 I Vol. 3NO.5

Alaska SeaLife Center to integrate public education with a working lab

The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward is scheduled to open in May of there. It could be at 1,000 feet or at 10 feet, but it 1998, combining one of the world's premier cold water research has to do with where the light penetrates, what facilities with one of the state's top tourist attractions. John Hendricks the dissolved oxygen is, what are the biological took over as the SeaLife Center's first director in September, after levels in it, plus the chemistry of the water and serving five years as executive director of the Texas State Aquarium. above all, what is the temperature. The advantage During a recent interview, he outlined his plans for meshing public education with scientific research. is you bring directly into your facility the habitat of the animals that you want to study. RD. The Alaska SeaLife Center is described RD. And Resurrection Bay is ideal. as the second marine facility of its type in the JH. The bottom of Resurrection Bay is like a John Hendricks world. Where is the other one? And what makes fjord. The sides are steep and the water is deep Alaska SeaLife Center these two facilities so different from others? and the ocean comes in its purestform. That's what JH. The first one is in a fjord in Norway and we're looking for. what makes both radically different is the RU. The SeaLife Center is getting a reputation temperature and the quality of the water. The already as a place where the scientists will be put one in Norway uses raw water from the fjord ... on display. Is that accurate? with direct cold-water feeding from 275 feet JH. That is very accurate, but it has also caused down. great concern among scientists. I can assure them RD. What's the big advantage of that? that they are not going to be trotted out like little JH. It's the quality of the water that comes out Continued on Page 2

This is the second in a series of articles describing how Exxon provided a bonus for taxpayers. Last July, Refuge Kodiak Valdez criminal and civil funds are being invested in the spill region. Manager Jay Bellinger surprised the borough The Cook Inlet region was covered in the October 1996 issue. Prince with a check for $240,000 in lieu of taxes on the Restoration William Sound will be featured in the next issue. 109,000 acres acquired by the refuge in 1995. omrnercial fishers, outdoor recreationists Continued on Page 4 benefits Cand taxpayers are beginning to feel the benefits from hundreds of millions of dollars island being spent within the Kodiak Island Borough as part of restoration efforts using Exxon Valdez residents civil and criminal funds. Approximately 60 percent of the spill area and wildlife habitat targeted for protection can be found on Kodiak, Afognak and Shuyak islands. Nearly 335,000 acres have already been protected, much of it added to the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge or developed into the new Afognak Island State Park. This not only helps protect anadromous rivers and open up private land to fishing, The forested mountains of Afognak Island as seen from Shuyak hunting, hiking and camping, but it has also Island. Alaska SeaLife Center Continued from Page 1 ponies or showdogs and go around the ring and do their little act. The reason they are there is to first of all do science. They're not there to entertain people all day. Typically in science, exciting things don't happen every day. They happen periodically. So what we want to do is capture "The advantage is those high moments using an electronic mediumand to capture the SeaLife Center the moments when a scientist has people here feels most comfortable, talking The Alaska SeaLife Center is scheduled to open in May 1998. about his or her work. Then we who will be able can use the electronic medium we can have several species of going to be mixed with the mam­ and use graphics to portray their Alaska crab. Whenpeople come mals and the avians, not in the to support the work, focus on their work and to Alaska and they want to see same container, but in the same scientist. That what it means to Alaska and the Alaska, what do you think of? space. GulfofAlaska, and whatitmeans King crab. So you're going to go from an takes the scientist to science in general, put those RU. I'd also like to see a big octopus over here to the crabs things on display and let the sci­ halibut in its environment. over there to the sea lion to the away from the entist go back to his office or her JH. We're trying to figure out seal to the birds. You're really mechanics and office and work. where to put a big halibut in its going to be looking under the Those who say they don't environment. The best place to waters of the Gulf of Alaska. It's the maintenance want to do their research there put it is in with the birds. It's going to be a really neat thing. because they don't want to be a good for the halibut, but we're We've got to figure out a way to and the business showdog, they don't have to not quite sure it's good for the get some kelp in there or manu­ of it and lets the worry about it. birds. But we're looking, where facture artificial kelp if the ani­ RU. So will there be live inter­ do we put a halibut and where mals keep eating it. scientist focus on action between scientists and the can we put the biggest halibut RU, Will there literally be a public? we can handle. We're looking window under the sea where the the science. " JH. There can be if the scien­ because a flounder is a flounder, public will be able to look directly tistis comfortable with it. Butjust but a halibut, now that's an im­ under Resurrection Bay? for a minute put yourself in the pressive flatfish. That's Alaska. JH. The Japanese did this at shoes of the SeaLife Center. From I don't know of anyone else Nagoya and other places and the middle of May to the middle who has a king crab. I've got to what they found was that unless of September, there's going to be go to the experts and ask have they fed the fish, you could sit from 1,000 to 3,000 people com­ you ever tried this? Do you have there all day long and not see ing through the door every day. reports I can borrow? Has this anything. It's the same problem I mean, who's going to get to see ever been done with king crab with the scientists. The scientist the scientists? I think for the per­ and halibut? And we can't do does something really super in­ sonal interviews with the scien­ this without an octopus. teresting maybe every couple tists, we'll probably reserve that RU. The more things you weeks. Well that's notenough for for groups (for example, college mention here, the bigger the the 3,000 people you havein there classes) on a scheduled basis. aquarium is getting. each day. Theywant to seeit now. RU. How are you going to sat­ JH. Not really. The three So we capture whatthey do or we isfy the pUblic's curiosity about things we talked about are right replicate it and we put together marine life? The public has come there. The place for them all is the whole interesting package to expect trained seals and jump­ in one room. Standing in one that for a scientist and his project ing dolphins and big aquariums. room I could tum around and might take three years. The pub­ JH. As far as big aquariums, look at every one of them. This lic will get it in three minutes in we're going to have a big is in addition to the mammals video and graphics. They're go­ aquarium. We're looking at how andbirds. The invertebrates are ing to get it concentrated. 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RU. What about the marine price possible. group is going be what we call mammals? Will they actuallybe RU. How will the scientists the rubber tire traffic from on display? pay their way? Will they be outside of Alaska. I could sit at JH. What we're doing is charged set fees? the border point near Beaver replicating the envirorunent they JH. They have to bring their Creek and meet most of our live in. It's going to be a very own grants. The advantage is customers as they come through familiar place to a sea lion. We'll the SeaLife Center has people customs. be putting sea lions back into here who will be able to support RU. Will the SeaLife Center be something that is very much like the scientist. That takes the a tourism destination in itself or their home. The hauloutswillbe scientist away from the will it be another thing to do for sculpted just like the haulouts mechanics and the maintenance those people going to Seward? out there. and the business ofitandlets the JH. Other then the Alamo, I Now, that's also good for the scientist focus on the science. don't know of any single thing "(Researchers) scientists because they have the RD. Do you envision a day that is a tourism destination in animals out there in a very when the SeaLife Center will be itself. Everythingis always a part are not going to realistic environment for putting out its own grants? of a package and we will be observational work. So, it's a JH. I envision a day when the thinking of ourselves always as be trotted out like controlled envirorunentbut it's a SeaLife Center will be a place to part of the Alaska package. little ponies or simulation of a natural pass grant money through, but RU. There are a lot of people environment. We don't want the we don't want to go through the driving south from Anchorage showdogs and go environment to influence the work of processing the grants who turn right at the Sterling animal's behavior or its and checking out the people. I Highway and never see Seward. around the ring physiology. don't see the SeaLife Center as Are you hoping to change their and do their little RU. What are the key being a huge generator of funds direction? advantages of conducting where it would have the money JH. When we look at that act. The reason research through the SeaLife itself to primarily fund research. particular market, we'll change Center? I can see it having funds to their direction. they are there is JH. It has a full time support provide matching funds. But I Alaska has its mystique and its to first of all do staff. Typically what happens is don't see it as being a primary magic. And from entrance to exit, that a scientist wants to do some funder of research, unless it is all the way through the thing, science. They're work and he or she has to come money passed through us by whatever we do we have to in in and hire people, set up a someone else. some way include Alaska's past not there to laboratory, set up an office. There RD. The SeaLife Center is and its Native peoplebecause the entertain people are specific equipment needs, projected to be the state's second people are really interesting too. laboratory needs, cold storage largest tourist attraction. Is that The relationship between the all day" facilities. In our case they come correct? people, the land, the ocean and in and sit down and we ask what JH. We intend to be second the creatures thatlive in it, I think is it you wantto do? And already for a little while. there's sort of a magic there. I on the premises are people who RD. Does that mean you're hope to capture at least a taste of can handle marine mammals. going to go for first? it and that's one of the hardest And in many cases the animals JH. Why not? things in the world to do. will be there. All the mechanics RU, Is Seward ready for this? will be there. JH. No. That's why I said it'll RU. Down to secretarial take a little while. There's an services? infrastructure there now thatwill JH. Down to accounting, bear 300,000 visitors. But there secretarial services, purchasing, needs to be other infrastructure transportation, whatever itis that development. Parking has got to they wantto carry out there work. grow and become more And it's there 24 hours a day. sophisticated. Lodging has to Scientists usually have to deal grow somewhat. A number of with lots of bureaucracy. I think other amenities are needed for One of the holding one of the messages we have to folks to come. It depends where tanks for marine get out there is we have one basic your market is and a lot of our mammals is under rule and that is to provide the market is going to be out-of-state construction at the Alaska SeaL/fe Center. best support possible at the best folks. Our number one major Kodiak area restoration Continued from Page 1 Federal law requires the payment in lieu of taxes, even though the land was not taxed under Native ownership. Bellinger says the borough will receive similar checks each year and the amount will only go up as the refuge acquires more land. Negotiations continuefor permanentprotection of 57,082 acres ofprirnehabitatalongtheKarlukandStur­ This custom-made tile geonrivers. Bothriversarevitalfor producingsalrnon greets visitors as they come and are popular with hunters and sportfishers. 1hat through the door at the land is currentlyunder a non-cievelopment easement Alutiiq Museum. through the year 2001. Negotiations are also under­ The Karluk River is a large producer of salmon and is popular with wayfor protection of 112,827acres onAfognakIsland, hunters and sport fishers. much of it slated for timber harvest. prevent any agreement soon. The borough has Marine Development of the Near Island Research Fa­ also offered more than 100 parcels of 10 acres each, Recreation cility was made possible partly through the which are currently being evaluated. purchase of 26,665 acres on Shuyak Island from The Kodiak Waste Management Program is in Projects the Kodiak Island Borough. The borough agreed its first year of planning an island-wide program $42 These projects, in various to commit$6 million from the million pricetag to reduce chronic sources of marine pollution, stages of planning and to help fund construction. such as waste oil and household cleansers. The construction, are funded The Trustee Council contributed $1.5 million Kodiak Island Borough will receive $267,500 this through the Exxon criminal to help fund the Alutiiq Museum, which opened settlement. For more fiscal year to develop the program for island com­ information contact either in May of 1995. The museum's archaeological munities. A similar program in Prince William (ONR) Alaska State Parks repository is the only artifact storage facility in Sound is now in the implementation stage. Kodiak Office 486-6352, the spill region. It is considered a vital resource To boost the numbers ofpink and coho salmon (KIB) Kodiak Island Borough for preserving and restoring artifacts found dur­ 486-9360, or (KOO) City of in Kodiak area waters, the Trustee Council funded Kodiak 486-8665. ing Kodiak-area archaeological excavations. building of a bypass in Little Waterfall Creek to In addition to the large habitat protection pack­ open up more salmon spawning habitat in the End of the Road Facilities ages, the Trustee Council is considering another Trails, boardwalk, parking area upper reaches of the creek. This project received and latrines. (KIB) $105,000 15 sites in the Kodiak Archipelago through its more than $170,000 over the last three years. small parcel program. The 1,028-acre tract at Ter­ Island Lake Creek Trail A study of Akalura and Red lakes on Kodiak Trail completion, bridge, mination Point, near Kodiak, is currently being Island is providing valuable information about observation deck, boardwalk, appraised. Though this was named as the num­ how overescapement affects future salmon runs. signs. (KIB) $145,000 ber one priority by the Kodiak Island Borough, Each of those lakes experienced overly large num­ Abercrombie Park Trail ongoing litigation concerning the property may bers of spawning salmon during the summer Beach access, bridges, board­ walks. (DNR) $60,000 following the oil spill. Several ongoing community involvement pro­ Pasagshak River Rec Site New 8-site campground with grams also affect the villages of Kodiak Island. latrines. (DNR) $150,000 Village residents are monitoring archaeological Shuyak Visitor Station sites, assisting researchers with traditional knowl­ New trails and small visitor edge oflocal ecosystems, and collectingbiological facility. (DNR) $150,000 samples of harbor seals for scientific study. Northend ParklNear Island The state Division of Parks is investing $1.2 Trails to tidelands, decks, million from the Exxon criminal funds to provide bridges, stairs, parking, signs. trails, cabins, bridges, parking and latrines on (KOD) $218,000 public lands. Some ofthat money hasbeen passed Sourdough Flats Rec Site on to local governments for local projects. Trail, viewing stations, boat launch. (DNR) $75,000 The Department of Fish and Game picked up several weir sites as part of the large parcel pro­ Peregrebni Point Park Launch ramp, floating dock. gram and negotiations continue for acquisition (DNR) $250,000 of the Karluk River weir. Public Use Cabins Kodiak Island youth are attending a "Spirit Construct 4cabins in Afognak The acquisition of 26,625 acres on Shuyak Island could lead to Camp" on Afognak Island thanks to a $250,000 Is State Park. (DNR) $80,000 expansion of Shuyak Island State Park with legislative approval. grant using criminal funds. 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Shuyak Island Purchased surface title to 26,665 acres of prime habitat on Shuyak tsland /rom the Kodiak tsland Borough. The borough agreed to commit $6 mil/ion from the land sale to expansion of Kodiak's Fishery Industrial Technology Center.

Afognak Joint Venture Negotiations conlinue with Afognak Joint Venture for surface title to 112,821 acres on norfhern Afognak Island I -;7 The property consists of seven dispersed parcels, three of which are adjacent to the previously acquired Seal Bay parcel. Afinal appraisal is expected in late Fa1/1996. .~ o

?~~ Koniag .~C\ Purchased from Koniag, Inc., surface title to 59,689 acres ot prime habitat ~ OUZINKIE~ for bear, salmon, bald eagles, and C:;,~ other species in the Kodiak National \ Termination PoinU1 028 acres Wildlife Retuge. This agreement protected an additional 57,082 acres along the Karluk and Sturgeon Rivers KODIAK under anondevelopment easement } through the year 2001. Negotiations are continuing on permanent I protection of these parcels. Kodiak Island u~)

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Old Harbor • Large Parcels Purchased trom Old Harbor Native El Acquired or under negotiations Corporation surface title to 28,609 acres Akhiok-Kaguyak Q National Wildlife Refuge Purchased from Akhiok-Kaguyak, Inc., ot land within the Kodiak National Wildtife Refuge The corporation also surface title to 16,211 acres ot land and Small Parcels * Acquired or under negotiations conservation easements on 42,463 acres, ~ donated aconservation easement on for atotal of 118,614 acres. These lands 3,000 acres and agreed to preserve 15 small parcels in 7 locations 65, 000 acres of land on Silkalidak Island are at various stages at are within the Kodiak National Wildlife negotiations. These parcets Refuge. as aprivate wildlife refuge with facilities total approximately 2,340 acres. for ecotourism. Parks bill parks bill signed into law which includes 803 acres along A November 12 byPresident the Kenai River one mile down­ resolves Clinton has made it possiblefor streamfrom the outlet ofSkilak theTrustee Council to proceed Lake. Kenai River with a plan to protect 3,254 Approximately four miles of acres offish and wildlife habitat Kenai River shoreline is pro­ protection on the Kenai River drainage. tectedby the package. The land The Kenai Natives Associa­ is an inholding within a desig­ package tion has offered to sell the land nated wilderness area and will as part of a larger federal land be managed by the U.S. Fish trade that required Congres­ and Wildlife Service. sional approval. The signing of The remainder ofthe package the parks bill opens the door to is made up of two tracts along complete the acquisition. the Moose River, totalling 2,451 tect more than two miles of The Trustee Council autho­ acres. The parcels, located three shoreline used as rearing habi­ rized $4 million for the land, miles northeast of Sterling, pro­ tat by sockeye salmon fry.

Negotiations ction continues on a age involving Tatitlek lands in $7million to protect 11,200 A number of fronts to pro­ eastern Prince William Sound acres. continuing vide long-term protection of are being hammered out. That Elsewhere, negotiations con­ on habitat large tracts of habitat in the spill package is still subject to share­ tinue with English Bay Corp. area. holder approval. for their inholdings in Kenai protection A voteby the Chenega share­ Negotiations are underway Fjords National Park and with holders on the Trustee Council's once again with Eyak Corpo­ Koniag, Inc., for permanentpro­ packages proposal to protect 61,000 acres ration for a comprehensive tection of the Karluk and of land in western Prince Will­ protection package that would Sturgeon rivers. The govern­ iam Sound is scheduled for include Sheep Bay, Windy Bay ment's appraisal of Afognak December 4. and Port Gravina. Eyak had Joint Venture lands is expected Details of a 66,000 acre pack­ earlier rejected an offer of in early December.

einers and herring pound to reopen the fishery. The Restoration Update is published six Herring times each year by the Exxon Valdez Oil Sfishers will return to Prince preliminary forecast for the Spill Trustee Council. Its purpose is to season William Sound next April for 1997 spring spawningbiomass update interested members of the public the first harvest of herring is 34,000 tons, well above the about actions, policies and plans of the returning since the population crashed in 22,000 ton minimum needed Trustee Council to restore resources and services injured by the Exxon Valdez oil toPWS 1993. before a fishery can take place. spill. Herring stocks are up high Seiners will be allocated Executive Director • Molly McCammon enough for the Alaska 2,965 tons of the 5,100 tons Director of Operations· Eric Myers Department of Fish and Game targeted for harvest. Editor· Joe Hunt

Restoration he 1997 Restoration Work­ and politics for the environment, T shop will be held at the will be the keynote speaker for Workshop Hotel Captain Cook in the event. Lee is director of the plans set Anchorage from January 23-25. Center for Environmental Stud­ The Restoration Workshop is ies at Williams College in Mas­ Exxon ValdezOiI Spill Trustee Council the annual seminar inwhich sci­ sachusetts. 645 GStreet, Suite 401, entists present and review 1996 Special rates are available Anchorage, AK 99501 restorationwork andhelp shape through the Hotel Captain 907/278-8012 FAX: 907/276-7178 future restoration projects. It's Cook (800-478-3100 within Toll free: 800/478-7745 in Alaska, 800/283-7745 outside Alaska. open to the public. Alaska, 800-843-1950 outside e-mail: [email protected] Kai N. Lee, author of Compass Alaska). To pre-register, call the httpjlwww.alaska.net/-ospic and Gyroscope: Integrating science Restoration Office at 278-8012. 'ljecem6e~ 1996 'RegtoMtiol1 'Ztl7e 7 II

These reports are available at the Oil Herring Sea Otters Subtidal -':;Th:;-e-:im:--pa-c~to-'":fc-ex-p-o-su-~-e Spill Public Information Center, 645 G -of:-a--:du-:lt'-p-re--s-pawn 1993 Trial aerial survey of sea otters in The Effects of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on St., Anchorage, AK 99501, orby calling herring (Clupea harengus pallasi) on Prince William Sound, Project Final shallow subtidal communities in Prince 907/278-8008,800/478-7745 (in Alaska) subsequent progeny, Annual Report, Report, 1996. Bodkin, J.L. and M.S. William Sound, 1995. Jewett, S.C. et al. or 800/283-7745 (outside Alaska). 1995. Carls, M.G. et al. 94166 Udevitz. 93043-2 Recovery ofsediments in the lower intertidal Herring spawn deposition and reproductive Apopulation model for sea otters in west­ and subtidal environment, Project Rnal Archaeology impairment, Annual Report, 1995. ern Prince William Sound, Project Report, 1996. O'Clair, C.E. etal. 93047-1 Wilcock, J.A. et al. 94166-1 Final Report. Udevilz, M.S. et al. The £VOS report, spill area site and col­ Microbiology ofsubtidal sediments: moni­ 1994 93043-3 lection plan, Project Final Report, 1995. Ichthyophonus hoferi, viral hemorrhagic sep­ toring microbial populations, Project Bittner, J.E. and D.R. Reger. 94007-1 ticemia virus, and other causes of Marine bird and sea otter population Final Report, 1995. Braddock, J.F. and morbidity in Pacific herring spawning in abundance of Prince William Sound: Z. Richter. 93047-2 Archaeological site monitoring and restora­ Prince William Sound in 1994, Annual trends following the TN Exxon Valdez tion, 1994, Annual Report, 1996. Reger, Subtidal monitoring: recovery of sediments Report, 1995. Marty, C.D. et al. 94320S oil spill, 1989-93. Agler, B.A. et al. D., L. Yarborough, et al. 94007-2 in the Northwestern Gulf of Alaska, An­ Genetic discrimination of Prince William 93045 nual Report, 1995. O'Clair, C.E. et al. Archaeological site restoration, index site Sound herring populations, Annual Re­ 94285 monitoring, 1995, Annual Report, 1996. port, 1995. Seeb, J.E. et al. 95165 Reger, D., et al. 95007A Shellfish Whales Site specific archaeological restoration, An­ Pink Salmon Recovery monitoring and restoration of inter­ Assessment ofinjuries and recovery moni­ nual Report, 1995. Yarborough, L.F. tidal oiled mussel beds in Prince William toring of Prince William Sound killer 95007B Injury to salmon eggs and preemergent fry Soundimpactedbythe Exxon VaJdezoilspill: whales using photo-identification tech­ in Prince William Sound, Project Final 1991 and 1992, NRDAAnnuai Report, 1996. niques, Project Final Report, 1994. Birds Report, 1994. Sharr, S., et al. 93003. Babcock, M.M., et aI. RS103-1 Dahlheim, M.E. and C.O. Matkin. 93042/ Survey of pigeon guillemot colonies in Stream habitat assessment project: Prince Recovery monitoring and restoration of 94092 Prince William Sound, Project Final William Soundand Lower Kenai Penin­ oiled mussel beds in Prince William Comprehensive killer whale investigation, Report, 1994. Sanger, G.A. and M.B. sula, Project Final Report, 1994. Sundet, Sound, Annual Report, 1995 & 1996. Annual Report, 1996. Matkin, C.O. et Cody. 93034 K. et al. 93051 Babcock, M.M. et al. 93036/94090 al. 95012 Common murre restoration monitoring in Coded wire tage recoveries from pink the Barren Islands, Project Final Report, salmon in Prince William Sound salmon General 1995. Roseneau, D.G. et al. 93049 fisheries, Project Fi nal Report, 1995. Sockeye Salmon Prince William Sound system investigation: Information needs for habitat protection: Sharr, S. et al. 93067 Kenai River sockeye salmon restoration, experimental manipulation, Project Fi­ marbled murrelet habitat identification, Injury to pink salmon eggs and preemer­ NRDA Annual Report, 1994. Tarbox, nal Report, 1994. Olsen, J. et al. 94320L Project Final Report, 1994. Kuletz, K.J. gent fry incubated in oiled gravel K.E. et al.RS53 Sound waste managementplan, Project Rnal et al. 93051B (laboratory study), Annual Report, Assessment of genetic stock structure of Report, 1996. Prince William Sound Eco­ Characterization of upland habitat of the 1995. Heintz, R.A. et al. 94191-2 salmonids, NRDAAnnual Report, 1993. nomic Development Council. 95115 marbled murrelet in the Exxon Valdez Coded wire tag recoveries from pink salmon Seeb, L. et al.RS59 Introduced predator removal from is­ oil spill area, Project Final Report, 1995. in Prince William Sound salmon fisher­ Sockeye salmon overescapement, Annual lands, Annual Report, 1995. Schmidt, DeVelice, R.L. et al. 93051 B ies, 1994. Sharr, S. et al. 94320B Report, 1995. Schmidt, D.C. et al. 93002 K. et al.94041 Marine birdandsea otterabundance ofPrince Feasibility of wildstock tetracycline otolith Kenai River sockeye salmon restoration, Herring Bay experimental and monitoring William Sound, Alaska: trends following marking in Prince William Sound, An­ Annual Report, 1994. Tarbox, K.E. et al. studies, Alaska, Annual Report, 1995. the TN Exxon Valdez oil spill, Project Fi­ nual Report, 1995. Craig, A.K. et al. 93015 Highsmith, R.C. et al. 94086 nal Report, 1995. Agler, BA et al. 94159 94320C Kenai River sockeye salmon restoration, Chenega chinook release program, Annual Recovery monitoring ofpigeon guillemotpopu­ Effects of oiled incubation substrate on Annual Report, 1995. Tarbox, K.E., et Report, 1994. Olsen, J. et al. 94272 lations in Prince William Sound, Project straying and survival of wild pink al. 94255 SEA90: Sound ecosystem assessment Rnal Report, 1995. Hayes, D.L. 94173 salmon, Annual Report, 1996. (SEA) - an integrated science plan for Wertheimer, A.C. et al. 950761 Sockeye salmon overescapement, Annual Seasonal movements and pelagic habi­ Report, 1995. Schmidt, D.C. et al. *94258 the restoration of injured species in tat use of murres and puffins 95191 B Prince William Sound, Annual Report, determined by satellite telemetry, Coded wire tag recoveries from pink salmon Restoration of Coghill Lakes sockeye salmon: 1994 annual report on nutri­ 1995. Cooney, R.T. 94320 Project Final Report, 1996. Hatch, in Prince William Sound fisheries, 1995, Survey ofoctopus in the intertidal in Prince SA et al. 95021 Annual Report, 1996. Riffe, R.R. et al. ent enrichment restoration, 1995. Edmundson, J.A. et al. 94259 William Sound, Annual Report, 1996. Experimental harlequin duck breeding sur­ 95320B Scheel, D. et al. 95009D vey in Prince William Sound, Annual Otolith marking of pink salmon in Prince Mechanisms ofimpact andpotential recov­ Report 1995. Rosenberg, D.H. 94427 William Sound hatcheries, Annual Re­ Subsistence ery of nearshore vertebrate predators, port, 1996. Joyce, n. et al. 95320C Forage Fish Subsistence restoration planning and imple­ Annual Report, 1996. Holland-Bartels, Forage fish influence on recovery ofinjured Salmon Habitat mentation, Project Final Report, 1995. L. 95025 species: forage fish diet overlap, Annual In stream habitat and stock restoration Fall, J.A. 94428/95428 APEX: Alaska predator ecosystem experi­ Report, 1995. Willette, T.M. et al. 94163 for salmon, Otter Creek barrier bypass Subsistence Restoration Project, Final ment, Annual Report, 1996. Duffy, D.C. 95163 Forage fish study in Prince William Sound, subproject, Project Final Report, Report, 1995. Miraglia, R.A. 93017 Annual Report. 94163-1 1995. Wedemeyer, K. and D. Gillikin. Harbor seal and sea otter cooperative Isotope ratio studies ofmarine mammals in 94139-B1 subsistence harvest assistance, An­ Prince William Sound, Annual Report, Harbor Seals In stream habitat and stock restoration nual Report, 1995. Fall, J.D. 942441 1996. Schell, D.M. and A. Hirons. 953201 Habitat use, behavior, and monitoring of for salmon, Shrode Creek barrier by­ 95244 PWSAC-PWS system investigation: experi­ harbor seals in Prince William Sound, pass subproject, Project Final Report, Community conference on subsistence mental fry release, Annual Report, 1995. Annual Report, 1994. Frost, KJ. and L.F. 1995. Wedemeyer, K. and D. Gillikin. and the oil spill: Annual Report, 1995. Ferren, H. and J. Milton. 95320K Lowry. 93046 94139-B2 Stephan R. Braund & Associates and Cutthroat trout and dolly varden in Prince Habitat use, behavior, and monitoring of Use of aerial photograph, channel-type Jon Isaacs & Associates. 95138 William Sound, Alaska: the relation harbor seals in Prince William Sound, interpretations to predict habitat avail­ Chenega chinook release program, Annual among and within populations ofanadro­ Annual Report, 1995. Frost, K.J. et al. ability in small streams, Project Final Report, 1995. Ferren, H. and J. Milton. mous and resident forms, Annual 94064/94320F Report, 1995. Olson, R.A. 95505B 95272 Report, 1996. Reeves, G.H. et al. 96145 II ~47e8 7)eam6e'l 1996 'RestouttlDn Update

Top he work of the Exxon Valdez hensive community-based sci­ Douglas Hall, deputy direc­ TOil Spill Trustee Council ence and monitoring program," tor of the National Oceanic and federal should be a model for restora­ Frampton said. Atmospheric Administration, tion efforts around the world, "There is no place else cer­ told reporters that the research trustees top federal trustees said during tainly in the United States ­ and monitoring program "has an October news conference in and maybe the world - where become a model for scientific give Washington, D.C. marking the a more concentrated effort is be­ cooperation." Data from this restoration fifth anniversary of the criminal ing made to study marine research is being used else­ and civil agreements with resources," Frampton said. In where in the country where efforts Exxon. addition, he said, "we have a restoration efforts are under­ "Out of one of the darkest land acquisition and habitat way following an oil spill. high moments in Alaska's history, protection program that has Executive Director Molly marks much good has come as a re­ been fantastically successful." McCammon and Science Coor­ sult of the settlement," said Under Secretary of Agricul­ dinator Stan Senner presented Assistant Interior Secretary ture Jim Lyons said that habitat a slide program that detailed George T. Frampton, Jr. protection was "the most sig­ the progress being made to­ The key to the Trustee nificant long-term method to ward restoration and the work Council's success, Frampton restore the environmentand the remaining to be done. said, was extensive public par­ species that had been affected Martha Stewart, Governor ticipation in developing a by the oil spill." These lands Knowles' aide in Washington, restoration plan, which was also open up more land for rec­ D.C., told reporters that re­ completed in November 1994. reational use, he noted. "Make search has helped Alaska This allowed a remarkable no mistake about it," he said. fisheries knowledge advance 25 amount of progress over the "These regions include world years over a five-year span. She last two years toward achiev­ class fishing rivers and bays said that further research is nec­ ing the goals of that plan, he and prime wildlife viewing and essary "to better manage the said. "We have a truly compre­ hunting areas." human uses" of the spill area.

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council

Bruce Botelho George T. Frampton, Jr. Steve Pennoyer Attorney General Assistant Secretary Director, Alaska Region State of Alaska US Dept. of Interior National Marine Fisheries Service Michele Brown Phil Janik Commissioner Regional Forester Frank Rue Alaska Dept. of Alaska Region Commissioner Environmental Conservation US Dept. of Agriculture Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game

Restoration Office Bulk Rate Trustee Council Meeting 645 G Street, Ste. 401 U.S. Postage Anchorage, AK 99501-3451 PAID Friday, December 6, 1996 Permit #1013 10a.m. Anchorage, AK Agenda items include a) Public Advisory Group nominations, b) funding of the deferred projects from the FY97 Work Plan, c) discussion of traditional ecological knowledge protocols, d) archiving policy and e) habitat acquisition. A public comment period will begin at 11 a.m. The public is invited to participate at the Juneau Federal Building, National Marine Fisheries Service Conference Rm 445C. The meeting will be teleconferenced to Anchorage at 645 G Street, 4th Floor Conference Rm. For information on how to participate from other locations, contact Rebecca Williams at 27S"s012.