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Chapter 2 Darkness
Chapter 2 Darkness f all the disconcerting statements in Veniaminov’s great work on the eastern Aleutians—and there are several—few are O more arresting than his assertion that elderly Unanga{ told of famous shamans who, long before the first Russians appeared, said white people would arrive from the sea and afterwards all Unanga{ would come to resemble them and would adopt their customs. These elders also reported that at the time of the Russian arrival the shamans began prophesizing that “in the east, over their islands,” they saw “a brilliant dawn or a great light” inhabited by “many people resembling the newcomers, while in the lower world, of the people whom they had seen there before, very few remained” and “impenetrable darkness set in.”1 This darkness surrounds the earliest history of Biorka, Kashega, and Makushin. Nick Galaktionoff joked that when people asked him where Aleuts came from, he would tell them, “Tomorrow I come from Makushin!” By “tomorrow” he meant “yesterday” or “that time before.” “I was right,” he laughed, “‘cause I was born there.”2 And yet Nick had an older origin story that began when Unanga{ lived on the mainland, a time when ice covered much of the coastline.3 Food became scarce and animals began preying on villages, taking food and attacking people. The chiefs spoke with their people and explained that they would have to go across the ice. They covered the bottoms of their open skin boats with seal skin that still had the fur on it, and this smooth surface allowed the heavily laden boats to be towed. -
Resource Utilization in Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, Alaska
RESOURCE UTILIZATION IN UNALASKA, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA Douglas W. Veltre, Ph. D. Mary J. Veltre, B.A. Technical Paper Number 58 Alaska Department of Fish and Game Division of Subsistence October 23, 1982 Contract 824790 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report would not have been possible to produce without the generous support the authors received from many residents of Unalaska. Numerous individuals graciously shared their time and knowledge, and the Ounalashka Corporation,. in particular, deserves special thanks for assistance with housing and transportation. Thanks go too to Linda Ellanna, Deputy Director of the Division of Subsistence, who provided continuing support throughout this project, and to those individuals who offered valuable comments on an earlier draft of this report. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ii Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION . 1 Purpose ..................... 1 Research objectives ............... 4 Research methods 6 Discussion of rese~r~h'm~tho~oio~y' ........ ...... 8 Organization of the report ........... 10 2 BACKGROUNDON ALEUT RESOURCE UTILIZATION . 11 Introduction ............... 11 Aleut distribuiiin' ............... 11 Precontact resource is: ba;tgr;ls' . 12 The early postcontact period .......... 19 Conclusions ................... 19 3 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND. 23 Introduction ........................... 23 The precontact'plrioi . 23 The Russian period ............... 25 The American period ............... 30 Unalaska community profile. ........... 37 Conclusions ................... 38 4 THE NATURAL SETTING ............... -
Status and Occurrence of Parakeet Auklet (Aethia Psittacula) in British Columbia
Status and Occurrence of Parakeet Auklet (Aethia psittacula) in British Columbia. By Rick Toochin and Louis Haviland. Introduction and Distribution The Parakeet Auklet (Aethia psittacula) is a small species of auklet found breeding in the Beringia region of Alaska and Russia (Gaston and Jones 1998). This species has an Alaskan population estimated at 1 million birds (Gaston and Jones 1998). There is also a Russian population, but the exact population total is not known, due to a lack of population inventory work, but it is estimated to number about 400,000 birds with the vast majority, about 300,000 birds, found in the Sea of Okhotsk (Gaston and Jones 1998). The Parakeet Auklet has breeding colonies that are found on rocky mainland points and islands in the Gulf of Alaska (Jones et al. 2001). These sites include: Shumagin Island, Semidi Isand, Chirikof Island near Kodiak, locally in Kenai Peninsula and southeastern Alaska with small numbers south to St. Lazaria, Hazy and Forrester Island; and in the Aleutian Islands west to Buldir and Agattu Island; and in the Bering Sea at Little Diomede, St. Lawrence Island, King Island, St. Matthew Island, Pribilof Island and Nunivak Island (Sowls et al. 1978). The Parakeet Auklet also breeds in Russia in the Kurile Island chain with colonies on Chirinkontan, Lovushki, Raikoke, Matua, Yankicha, Simushir, Brat Chirpoev, Urup, and Iturup Island (Jones et al. 2001, Brazil 2009). They are also breeding on islands in the Sea of Okhotsk with colonies on Sakhalin, Tyuleniy, Iona, Talan, and Yamskyie Island (Jones et al. 2001, Brazil 2009). The Parakeet Auklet is also found breeding on Commander Island, and northwards locally along coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, on Karaginski Island, Cape Navarin, and on Chukotka Peninsula (Konyukhov 1989, Kondratyev et al. -
Aleutian Islands
Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery. 2018, 2(1): 109-114 © 2018 GCdataPR DOI:10.3974/geodp.2018.01.18 Global Change Research Data Publishing & Repository www.geodoi.ac.cn Global Change Data Encyclopedia Aleutian Islands Liu, C.1* Yang, A. Q.2 Hu, W. Y.1 Liu, R. G.1 Shi, R. X.1 1. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China; 2. Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing100101,China Keywords: Aleutian Islands; Fox Islands; Four Mountains Islands; Andreanof Islands; Rat Islands; Near Islands; Kommandor Islands; Unimak Island; USA; Russia; data encyclopedia The Aleutian Islands extends latitude from 51°12′35″N to 55°22′14″N and longitude about 32 degrees from 165°45′10″E to 162°21′10″W, it is a chain volcanic islands belonging to both the United States and Russia[1–3] (Figure 1, 2). The islands are formed in the northern part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. They form part of the Aleutian Arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, extending about 1,900 km westward from the Alaska Peninsula to- ward the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia, Figure 1 Dataset of Aleutian Islands in .kmz format and mark a dividing line between the Ber- ing Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The islands comprise 6 groups of islands (east to west): the Fox Islands[4–5], islands of Four Mountains[6–7], Andreanof Islands[8–9], Rat Islands[10–11], Near Is- lands[12–13] and Kommandor Islands[14–15]. -
Groundfish Harvest from Parallel Seasons in the Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area
Fishery Management Report No. 08-43 Bering Sea-Aleutian Islands Area State-Waters Groundfish Fisheries and Groundfish Harvest from Parallel Seasons in 2007 by Krista Milani August 2008 Alaska Department of Fish and Game Divisions of Sport Fish and Commercial Fisheries Symbols and Abbreviations The following symbols and abbreviations, and others approved for the Système International d'Unités (SI), are used without definition in the following reports by the Divisions of Sport Fish and of Commercial Fisheries: Fishery Manuscripts, Fishery Data Series Reports, Fishery Management Reports, and Special Publications. All others, including deviations from definitions listed below, are noted in the text at first mention, as well as in the titles or footnotes of tables, and in figure or figure captions. Weights and measures (metric) General Measures (fisheries) centimeter cm Alaska Administrative fork length FL deciliter dL Code AAC mideye to fork MEF gram g all commonly accepted mideye to tail fork METF hectare ha abbreviations e.g., Mr., Mrs., standard length SL kilogram kg AM, PM, etc. total length TL kilometer km all commonly accepted liter L professional titles e.g., Dr., Ph.D., Mathematics, statistics meter m R.N., etc. all standard mathematical milliliter mL at @ signs, symbols and millimeter mm compass directions: abbreviations east E alternate hypothesis HA Weights and measures (English) north N base of natural logarithm e cubic feet per second ft3/s south S catch per unit effort CPUE foot ft west W coefficient of variation CV gallon gal copyright © common test statistics (F, t, χ2, etc.) inch in corporate suffixes: confidence interval CI mile mi Company Co. -
Geologic Map of Alaska
Geologic Map of Alaska Compiled by Frederic H. Wilson, Chad P. Hults, Charles G. Mull, and Susan M. Karl Pamphlet to accompany Scientific Investigations Map 3340 2015 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Front cover. Color shaded relief map of Alaska and surroundings. Sources: 100-meter-resolution natural image of Alaska, http://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/mld/nate100.html; rivers and lakes dataset, http://www.asgdc.state.ak.us/; bathymetry and topography of Russia and Canada, https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html. Back cover. Previous geologic maps of Alaska: 1906—Brooks, A.H., Abbe, Cleveland, Jr., and Goode, R.U., 1906, The geography and geology of Alaska; a summary of existing knowledge, with a section on climate, and a topographic map and description thereof: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 45, 327 p., 1 sheet. 1939—Smith, P.S., 1939, Areal geology of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 192, 100 p., 18 plates. 1957—Dutro, J.T., Jr., and Payne, T.G., 1957, Geologic map of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey, scale 1:2,500,000. 1980—Beikman, H.M., 1980, Geologic map of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Special Map, scale 1:2,500,000, 2 sheets. Geologic Map of Alaska Compiled by Frederic H. Wilson, Chad P. Hults, Charles G. Mull, and Susan M. Karl Pamphlet to accompany Scientific Investigations Map 3340 2015 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Department of the Interior SALLY JEWELL, Secretary U.S. Geological Survey Suzette M. Kimball, Director U.S. -
Historical Timeline for Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge
Historical Timeline Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Much of the refuge has been protected as a national wildlife refuge for over a century, and we recognize that refuge lands are the ancestral homelands of Alaska Native people. Development of sophisticated tools and the abundance of coastal and marine wildlife have made it possible for people to thrive here for thousands of years. So many facets of Alaska’s history happened on the lands and waters of the Alaska Maritime Refuge that the Refuge seems like a time-capsule story of the state and the conservation of island wildlife: • Pre 1800s – The first people come to the islands, the Russian voyages of discovery, the beginnings of the fur trade, first rats and fox introduced to islands, Steller sea cow goes extinct. • 1800s – Whaling, America buys Alaska, growth of the fox fur industry, beginnings of the refuge. • 1900 to 1945 – Wildlife Refuge System is born and more land put in the refuge, wildlife protection increases through treaties and legislation, World War II rolls over the refuge, rats and foxes spread to more islands. The Aleutian Islands WWII National Monument designation recognizes some of these significant events and places. • 1945 to the present – Cold War bases built on refuge, nuclear bombs on Amchitka, refuge expands and protections increase, Aleutian goose brought back from near extinction, marine mammals in trouble. Refuge History - Pre - 1800 A World without People Volcanoes push up from the sea. Ocean levels fluctuate. Animals arrive and adapt to dynamic marine conditions as they find niches along the forming continent’s miles of coastline. -
Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program
. i, WUOE (ixlw Technical Report Number 54 Volume 1 -, Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program Sponsor: Bureau of Land Management — Alaska Outer ‘ Bering–Normn Pwdeum Development Scenarios Sociocultural Syst~ms Analysis The United States Department of the Interior was designated by the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act of 1953 to carry out the majority of the Act’s provisions for administering the mineral leasing and develop- ment of offshore areas of the United States under federal jurisdiction. Within the Department, the Bureau of Land Management (ELM) has the responsibility to meet requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) as well as other legislation and regulations dealing with the effects of offshore development. In Alaska, unique cultural differences and climatic conditions create a need for developing addi- tional socioeconomic and environmental information to improve OCS deci- sion making at all governmental levels. In fulfillment of its federal responsibilities and with an awareness of these additional information needs, the BLM has initiated several investigative programs, one of which is the Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program (SESP). The Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program is a multi-year research effort which attempts to predict and evaluate the effects of Alaska OCS Petroleum Development upon the physical, social, and economic environ- ments within the state. The overall methodology is divided into three broad research components. The first component identifies an alterna- tive set of assumptions regarding the location, the nature, and the timing of future petroleum events and related activities. In this component, the program takes into account the particular needs of the petroleum industry and projects the human, technological, economic, and environmental offshore and onshore development requirements of the regional petroleum industry. -
Image Acquisition in 2016
ShoreZone Imaging and Mapping 2016 Kalen Morrow Coastal and Ocean Resources Umnak Island – Bering Sea ShoreZone Partner Meeting - October 2016 Aleutian Islands - Day 1 - April 8, 2016 Day 1 – Beaver Inlet, Unalaska Island Day 1 - Unalaska Day 1 – Unalaska Airport Day 2 – April 9, 2016 Day 2 – Akun Island Day 2 – Akutan Day 2 – Tigalda Island Day 2 – Akun Island Day 3 – April 10, 2016 Day 3 – Sedanka Island Day 4 – April 11, 2016 Day 4 – Fort Glenn, Umnak Island Day 4 – Umnak Island, Bering Sea Day 4 – Umnak Island, Bering Sea Day 4 – Nikolski Day 5 – April 12, 2016 Day 5 – Unalaska Island, Pacific Ocean Day 5 - Unalaska Island, Bering Sea Day 6 – April 13, 2016 Day 6 – Unalaska Island, Snow Squall Day 6 – Akutan Island, Lava Field Day 6 – Cathedral Rocks, Unalaska Island Day 7 – April 14, 2016 Day 7 – Official Team Photo Day 7 – Unalaska Island, Bering Sea Day 7 – Western End of Unalaska Island Alaska Peninsula Alaska Peninsula - Day 1 - May 5, 2016 Day 1 – Liftoff Day 1 – Williwaw on Wide Bay Day 1 – Alinchak Bay Day 1 – Landing Day 2 – May 6, 2016 Day 2 – Imuya Bay Day 2 – Wide Bay Day 3 – May 7, 2016 Day 3 – Chignik Day 3 – Nakalilok Bay Day 4 – May 8, 2016 Day 4 – Chirikof Island Day 4 – Semidi Islands Day 5 – May 9, 2016 Day 5 – Kuiukta Bay Day 5 – Devils Bay Day 6 – May 10, 2016 Day 6 – Kujulik Bay Day 6 – Hook Bay Day 7 – May 11, 2016 Day 7 – Chankliut Island Day 7 – Ross Cove Mammals Mammals Kuskokwim Bay, Yukon Delta Mapping Trees and Shrubs BioBand Kuskokwim Bay, Yukon Delta Mapping Estimated Actual Shoreline 2014 2 750 m 3 Shoreline Matches 2003 Aerial Image 1 2 3 1 Best Available Shoreline 2014 ShoreZone Imagery Umnak Island – Bering Sea [email protected]. -
This Manuscript Has Been Reproduced from the Microfilm Master. UMI Films the Text Directly from the Original Or Copy Submitted
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Marine Mammal Report
I IJ' ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME JUNEAU, ALASKA DIVISION OF GAME ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME JUNEAU, ALASKA STATE OF ALASKA William A. Egan, Governor DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME Walter Kirkness, Commissioner DIVISION OF GAME James W. Brooks, Director Don H. Strode, Federal Aid Coordinator MARINE MAMMAL REPORT by John J. Burns David R. Klein Loren Croxton Volume IV Annual Project Segment Report Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Project W-6-R-4, Work Plan J <X) N The subject matter contained within these reports is often N ~ fragmentary in nature and the findings may not be conclusive; <D m consequently, permission to publish the contents is withheld 8 pending permission of the Department of Fish and Game. 0 ~ ~ (Printed January 1964) C'l) C'l) I I TABLE OF CONTENTS I CONTENTS PAGE NO. I WALRUS HARVEST AND UTILIZATION I OBJECTIVES • 1 TECHNIQUES ••• 1 I FINDINGS. • • 1 Surnrner Kill. 2 I Fall and Winter Kill • . • • 2 Spring Kill . ............ 3 Hunting Effort • . • • . • • • • • . 6 I Utilization. • • • • • • • • •• 6 Value •••••• 7 I Sport Hunting. • 7 LITERATURE CITED. • . • 10 I PRODUCTIVITY OF THE RING SEAL. 11 I SEALS - MAGNITUDE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF HARVEST OBJECTIVES • • 13 I TECHNIQUES. • • • 13 I FINDINGS •• 14 VALUE ••• • 14 I CONCLUSIONS 16 I SEA OTTER INVESTIGATIONS OBJECTIVES • . • 17 I TECHNIQUES. • 17 I FINDINGS •• • • • 17 Harvest. • • • • • •• . 17 I Specimen Collection.••• • 18 Pelt Collection. • •• . • 18 I r r WORK PLAN SEGMENT REPORT r FEDERAL AID IN WILDLIFE RESTORATION STATE: Alaska r PROJECT NO • : W-6-R-4 TITLE: Alaska Wildlife Investigations I WORK PLAN: J TITLE: Marine Mammal Investigations JOB NO.: 1-b I PERIOD COVERED: July l, 1962 to June 30, 1963 I ABSTRACT The retrieved kill of walruses during this report period I was approximately 1,594 to 1,725 animals. -
NCSR 5/3/8 COMMUNICATIONS and SEARCH and 17 November 2017 RESCUE Original: ENGLISH 5Th Session Agenda Item 3
E SUB-COMMITTEE ON NAVIGATION, NCSR 5/3/8 COMMUNICATIONS AND SEARCH AND 17 November 2017 RESCUE Original: ENGLISH 5th session Agenda item 3 ROUTEING MEASURES AND MANDATORY SHIP REPORTING SYSTEMS Establishment of three new areas to be avoided in the Bering Sea Submitted by the United States SUMMARY Executive summary: This document contains a proposal to establish three areas to be avoided in the Bering Sea Strategic direction: 5.2 High-level action: 5.2.4 Output: 5.2.4.1 Action to be taken: Paragraph 34 Related documents: Resolution A.572(14), as amended; MSC.1/Circ.1060 and MSC.1/Circ.1060/Add.1 Introduction 1 This document is a proposal by the United States to establish three recommendatory areas to be avoided (ATBA) in the Bering Sea to improve safety of navigation, protect this fragile and unique environment, and facilitate the ability to respond to maritime emergencies. These areas to be avoided will be complemented by two-way routes and precautionary areas which is the subject of a separate document (NCSR 5/3/7). 2 Details of the ATBA are as follows: .1 chartlets and a general description of the areas to be avoided are set out in annex1; .2 the names, numbers, editions and geodetic datum of the reference charts used to delineate the areas to be avoided are set out in annex 2; and .3 the geographical coordinates that define the areas to be avoided are set out in annex 3. K:\NCSR\05\NCSR 5-3-8.docx NCSR 5/3/8 Page 2 Summary 3 The objectives for submitting the proposed areas to be avoided are to: .1 increase ship safety by mitigating the heightened risk created from increasing traffic and shipping activity by maintaining a safe distance between ships and the shoreline; .2 help ships avoid numerous shoals, reefs and islands, particularly where the areas have not been surveyed thoroughly; .3 reduce the risk of shipping accidents and incidents; .4 provide more time to mount a response to a developing maritime emergency e.g.