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Author : Canessa, R.R.; Conley, K.W.; and Smiley, B.D.
Date : 2003.
Title : Bowie Seamount pilot marine protected area : an ecosystem overview report.
Publication : Canada. Dept. of Fisheries and Oceans. Science Branch. Sidney, BC. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Issue : 2461.
Page(s) : 85 p.
Abstract
In December 1998, the Bowie Seamount Area, known to the Haida people as Sgaan Qintlas (translated as meaning "supernatural, looking outward"), was announced as a Pilot Marine Protected Area. The 15,000 km Area of Interest encompasses the Bowie, Hodgkins and and Davidson seamounts range and surrounding abyssal plain. The seamounts lie between 180 km and 230 k, west of Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia. Canada's National Framework for the development of Marine Protected Area (MPAs) includes a Code of Practice that encourages Integrated Ocean Managers to use all the available scientific and traditional ecological knowledge when preparing management plans for prospective MPAs. This Technical Report forms the basis of the Ecosystem Overview for the Bowie Seamount Area. Though the area is not well studied, this overview synthesizes the limited information available for its marine ecosystems, and includes relevant knowledge from other Pacific seamounts such as Cobb. Descriptions of socio-economic and cultural, as well as environmental components of Bowie Seamount Area are provided, including data gaps and recommended work.
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