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Human activities and their potential impacts - Monterey Bay NMS
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Spreadsheet's Author: Carrie Kappel
Last Updated with Excel 97
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| Human activities in the MBNMS (modified based on sanctuary staff input) | data available | notes | variable | time frame | potential ecosystem impact | |
| agriculture | nutrient/sediment/pesticide runoff | |||||
| air traffic | disturbance to wildlife | |||||
| aquaculture/mariculture | nutrient input, organism escape, | |||||
| aquaria | collecting, intake, outflow | |||||
| artisanal fishing | harvest | |||||
| beach grooming | smothering benthic inverts, removal algal wrack | |||||
| beach nourishment | dredging, same as above | |||||
| beach visitation | wildlife disturbance | |||||
| bio-prospecting | collecting | |||||
| bird watching | wildlife disturbance | |||||
| boating | wildlife disturbance, pollution, anchoring | |||||
| coastal armoring | modification coastal habitat, erosion downstream | |||||
| commercial fishing | x | by port | commercial landings, weighted by productivity | 2001-2004 | harvesting, impacts on benthc habitat | |
| commercial harvest | harvesting | |||||
| commercial shipping | pollution, invasve species introduction, disturbance to wildlife | |||||
| conservation | ? | |||||
| cruise ships | pollution, invasve species introduction, disturbance to wildlife | |||||
| diving | x | susanne's dive survyes | dive hrs at a site | 2005 | trampling, anchoring | |
| dredging | benhic habitat disturbance | |||||
| education | trampling, collecting | |||||
| hanggliding | wildlife disturbance | |||||
| harbors/marinas | pollution, alteration coastal and benthic habitat | |||||
| illegal fishing | harvesting | |||||
| kayaking | wildlife disturbance | |||||
| land-based mining | sediment input | |||||
| motorized watercraft | wildlife disturbance | |||||
| off road vehicles | wildlife disturbance, impact of benthic inverts | |||||
| offshore disposal | pollution, disturbance benthic habitat | |||||
| power plants | intake and outflow | |||||
| recreational fishing/collecting | harvesting, collecting | |||||
| research | collecting, trampling, disturbance to wildlife, disturbance to benthic habitat | |||||
| sand mining | alteration benthic habitat | |||||
| seafloor cables/communication | alteration benthic habitat | |||||
| shipping lanes | DELETE? | pollution, invasve species introduction, disturbance to wildlife | ||||
| tidepooling | trampling, collecting | |||||
| urban development | nutrient/sediment/pollutants runoff, aleration coastal habitat | |||||
| wastewater treatment | intake, outflow | |||||
| wave/tidal energy development | alteration coastal habitat | |||||
| whale watching | wildlife disturbance |
Spreadsheet's Author: Carrie Kappel
Last Updated with Excel 97
Created with xlhtml 0.5.1