Cover • Table of Contents • Tables • Figures • Appendixes

Table of Contents

Cover Announcement of Availability Executive Summary List of Tables List of Figures List of Appendices Announcement of Availability 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Purpose of this Kelp Plan 1.2 Timeline 1.3 Public Involvement 2.0 Environmental Settings 2.1 General Meteorological Conditions 2.1.1 Regional Pressure and Temperature Effects 2.1.2 Local Meteorological Conditions 2.2 Water Masses and Hydrography 2.3 Water Column Characteristics and Processes: Nutrients 2.4 Geology 2.5 Kelp Forest Distribution and Ecology 2.5.1 Dominant Algal Species 2.5.2 Algal Assemblages Associated with Kelp Forests 2.5.3 Invertebrate/Vertebrate Assemblages Associated with Kelp Forests 2.5.4 Seasonal Patterns and Kelp Life Histories 2.5.5 Marine Ecological Changes Near the Monterey Peninsula 3.0 Issues: Environmental Impacts of Kelp Usage and Use Conflicts 3.1 Kelp as a Harvestable Product 3.1.1 History and Existing Status of Kelp Harvesting 3.1.2 Present Kelp Harvesting Levels 3.1.3 Ecological Effects from Kelp Harvesting 3.2 Other Uses of Kelp 3.2.1 History and Existing Status of Other Kelp Uses 3.2.2 Ecological Effects from Other Kelp Uses 3.3 Use Conflicts 4.0 Regulating Kelp Usage in the MBNMS 4.1 Regulatory Jurisdictions 4.1.1 California Department of Fish and Game/Fish and Game Commission (DFG/FGC) 4.1.2 Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) 4.1.3 Other Authorities 4.2 MBNMS Review of Kelp Harvesting 4.3 NOAA/MBNMS Authority to Regulate 5.0 Recommendations to the State of California 6.0 Recommended Research Topics 7.0 Recomended Allocatio of Agency Resources for Management 8.0 Literature and Authorities Cited A downloadable PDF version of the MBNMS Kelp Management Plan is available at the MBNMS FTP site. Kelpreportfinal.pdf (878K) Kelpappendix.pdf (289K) Acrobat Reader software can be downloaded for free from Adobe

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