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To receive a copy of a publication or report listed here, please contact:
Marine Mammals Management, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
1011 E. Tudor Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99503
or call 907-786-3800

2008 Final Stock Assessment Reports

Sea Otter - Southwest Alaska Stock (pdf)
Sea Otter - Southcentral Alaska Stock (pdf)
Sea Otter - Southeast Alaska Stock (pdf)

Federal Register Notice (pdf)


For more information, and for Stock Assessment Reports on other marine mammals, visit the National Marine Fisheries Service web site.

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Publications

Garrott, R.A., L.L. Eberhardt, and D.M. Burn. 1993. Mortality of sea otters in Prince William Sound following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Marine Mammal Science. 9(4):343-359.

Burn, D.M. 1994. Boat-based population surveys of sea otters in Prince William Sound. Pp. 61-80 in: Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez. T. Loughlin (Ed.) Academic Press, Inc.

DeGange, A.R., A.M. Doroff, and D.H. Monson. 1994. Experimental recovery of sea otter carcasses at Kodiak Island, Alaska, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Marine Mammal Science 10(4):492-496.

Doroff, A.M. and J.L. Bodkin. 1994. Sea otter foraging behavior and hydrocarbon levels in prey following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. In: Marine Mammals and Oiling. Ed. T.R. Loughlin. Academic Press.

Doroff, A.M. and A.R. DeGange. 1994. Sea otter prey composition and foraging success in the northern Kodiak archipelago. Fishery Bulletin 92:704-710 (1994).

Gorbics, C.S. and J.L. Bodkin. 2001. Stock structure of sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in Alaska. Marine Mammal Science 17(3): 632-647.

Doroff, A.M., J.A. Estes, M.T. Tinker, D.M. Burn, and T.J. Evans. 2003. Sea otter population declines in the Aleutian archipelago. Journal of Mammalogy 84(1):55-64.

Burn, D.M., A.M. Doroff, M.T. Tinker. In press. Carrying capacity and pre-decline abundance of sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in the Aleutian Islands. Northwest Naturalist.

Doroff, A.M., D.M. Burn, and R.A. Stovall. Submitted. Unexpected population declines of sea otters in the Kodiak archipelago, Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Burn, D.M. and A.M. Doroff. Submitted. The northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni): population declines along the Alaska Peninsula 1986-2001. Fishery Bulletin.
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Unpublished Technical Reports

Doroff, A.M., A.R. DeGange, C. Lensink, B.E. Ballachey, J.L. Bodkin, and D. Bruden. 1993. Recovery of sea otter carcasses following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Pp. 285-288 in: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Symposium, Program and Abstracts. 365 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1994. Conservation plan for the sea otter in Alaska. Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska. 44 pp.

Doroff, A.M. and A.R. DeGange. 1995. Experiments to determine drift patterns and rates of recovery of sea otter carcasses following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill State/Federal Natural Resources Damage Assessment Marine Mammal Study 6-9. Final Report. 13 pp.

Doroff, A.M. and J.L. Bodkin. 1996. Sea otter foraging behavior and hydrocarbon levels in prey following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill State/Federal Nat Natural Resources Damage Assessment Marine Mammal Study 6-8. Final Report. 33 pp.

Doroff, A.M. and C. Gorbics. 1997. Sea otter surveys of Yakutat Bay and adjacent Gulf of Alaska coastal areas - Cape Hinchinbrook to Cape Spencer 1995-1996. Final Report to Minerals Management Service. Interagency Agreement No. 05059. 23 pp.

Doroff, A.M. and D. Mulcahy. 1997. A field guide to general necropsy and tissue collection for sea otters (Enhydra lutris) in Alaska. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management Technical Report MMM 97-3. 49 pp.

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Evans, T.J., D.M. Burn, and A.R. DeGange. 1997. Distribution and relative abundance of sea otters in the Aleutian archipelago. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management Technical Report MMM 97-5.

Doroff, A.M. and M. Roy. 1999. Sea Otter Surveys of Izembek Lagoon, Alaska: a Pilot Study. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska. 6 pp.

Ballachey, B.E., C.S. Gorbics, and A.M. Doroff. 2001. Sea otter mortality in Orca Inlet, Prince William Sound, Alaska, winter 1995-1996. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management Technical Report: MMM 01-1. 23 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001a. Standard methods to assess over winter mortality trends in sea otter populations in Alaska. Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska. 7 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2001b. Population trend surveys as an index to abundance and distribution of sea otters: a standard protocol in Alaska. Marine Mammals Management, Anchorage, Alaska. 10 pp.

Doroff, A.M., D.M. Burn and J.A. Haddix. 2002. Skiff-based surveys of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) in the Semidi Islands and outer Shumagin Islands of the Alaska Peninsula, May 2002. Internal report. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals Management, 1011 E. Tudor Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99503. 15 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2002a. Stock assessment for sea otters (Enhydra lutris) - southwest Alaska Stock. 8 pp.: Available on our web site under Stock Assessment Reports

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2002b. Stock assessment for sea otters (Enhydra lutris) - southcentral Alaska Stock. Marine Mammal Protection Act Stock Assessment Report. 6 pp. Available on our web site under Stock Assessment Reports.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2002c. Stock assessment for sea otters (Enhydra lutris) - southeast Alaska Stock. Marine Mammal Protection Act Stock Assessment Report. 6 pp. Available on our web site under Stock Assessment Reports.

 

 

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