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- Title
Conservation biology: Is this any way to save a species?
- Authors
Dalton, Rex
- Abstract
Focuses on the multimillion dollar federal aid extended by the U.S. Government to support the Steller Sea Lion Research Initiative in determining the reason why the population of the sea lions in Aleutian Islands, Alaska, has plunged over the past three decades. Opinion of environmentalists on the possible association of commercial fishing in the decline of the population of the species; Legal complains filed by a coalition of environmental groups in 1998, alleging the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service had violated the Endangered Species Act; Recommendation for the researchers to establish areas open and closed to fishing and monitoring the survival of sea lions in each, in order to test the impact of commercial fishing.
- Subjects
UNITED States; STELLER'S sea lion; SEA lions; ENDANGERED species; NATURE conservation; CONSERVATION of natural resources; FEDERAL aid to research
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 436, Issue 7047, p14
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/436014a