A preliminary assessment of threats to arctic marine mammals and their conservation in the coming decades

Henry P. Huntington

Marine Policy, 2009, vol. 33, issue 1, 77-82

Abstract: Over the next several decades, arctic marine mammals will face threats from six areas of human influence: climate change, environmental contaminants, offshore oil and gas activities, shipping, hunting, and commercial fisheries. This paper reviews these factors, the nature and magnitude of the threats they pose, current scientific understanding and management of those threats, and the potential for effective conservation action. Climate change, offshore oil and gas activities, and commercial fisheries likely pose the greatest threats. Addressing the combined effects of all six factors, however, will be particularly difficult but essential to prevent declines beyond those that have already occurred.

Keywords: Arctic; marine; mammals; Conservation; Climate; change; Industrial; development; Fisheries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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