Living Marine Resources of the Hope Basin: A Resource Assessment for the Hope Basin Oil and Gas Lease Sale Number 86, 1981
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/AKR-4
This report addresses the living marine resources and their habitats that are within the purview of NOAA Fisheries. The report covers the following subjects:
- a general description of the environment and habitats encompassed by the proposed sale area
- a review of the fish and invertebrate resources of the southeastern Chukchi Sea
- the status of knowledge of marine mammal populations of the area
- the commercial and subsistence uses of these resources by coastal residents
- potential effects of oil and gas development on these fish and marine mammal populations and their habitats