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Table of Contents

Cover Executive Summary List of Tables List of Figures List of Appendices 1.0 Announcement of Availability 2.0 Introduction 2.1 Purpose of this Kelp Plan 2.2 Timeline 2.3 MBNMS Kelp Management Plan Outline 2.3.1 First Release: Background and Environmental Settings 2.3.2 Second Release: Background and Environmental Settings with Draft Recommendations 2.3.3 Final "MBNMS Kelp Management Plan" 2.4 Public Involvement 3.0 Environmental Settings 3.1 General Meteorological Conditions 3.1.1 Regional Pressure and Temperature Effects 3.1.2 Local Meteorological Conditions 3.2 Water Masses and Hydrography 3.3Water Column Characteristics and Processes: Nutrients 3.4 Geology 3.4 Kelp Forest Distribution and Ecology 3.4.1 Dominant Algal Species 3.4.2 Algal Assemblages Associated with Kelp Forests 3.4.3 Invertebrate and Vertebrate Assemblages Associated with Kelp Forests 3.4.4 Seasonal Patterns and Kelp Life Histories 3.4.5 Marine Ecological Changes Near the Monterey Peninsula 4.0 Issues: Environmental Impacts of Kelp Usage and Use-Conflicts 4.1 Kelp as a Harvestable Product 4.1.1 History and Existing Status of Kelp Harvesting 4.1.2 Present Kelp Harvesting Levels 4.1.3 Ecological Effects from Kelp Harvesting 4.2 Other Uses of Kelp 4.2.1 History and Existing Status of Other Kelp Uses 4.2.2 Ecological Effects from Other Kelp Uses 4.3 Use Conflicts 5.0 Regulating Kelp Usage in the MBNMS 5.1 Regulatory Jurisdictions 5.1.1 California Department of Fish and Game/Fish and Game Commission (DFG/FGC) 5.1.2 Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) 5.1.3 Other Authorities 5.2 MBNMS Regulatory History on Kelp 5.3 NOAA/MBNMS Regulatory Action 6.0 Response to Comments on First Release 6.1 Research and Science Comments 6.2 Multiple Use Comments 6.3 Process Comments 6.4 Management Recommendations 7.0 Draft Recommendations to the State of California 8.0 Draft Recommended Research Agenda 9.0 Topics for Public Input 10.0 Literature and Authorities Cited A downloadable PDF version of the MBNMS Kelp Management Plan is available at the MBNMS FTP site. Kelpreport2.pdf (1.1MB) Acrobat Reader software can be downloaded for free from Adobe

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