Resource Management Issues: Motorized Personal Watercraft
Studies and Reports of MPWC Impacts
To download published information NOAA has consulted regarding impacts of MPWC on marine wildlife, click on the individual links below.
- Burger, 1998: Effects of MPWCs (516KB PDF*)
- Green et.al., 2002: Monitoring Impacts of Harbor Seals (5.8MB PDF*)
- Kelly, 1997: Audubon Canyon Analysis (406KB PDF*)
- Miksis-Olds, 2006: Manatee Response to Environmental Noise (4.5MB PDF*)
- Osborne, 1996: Preliminary Assessment of Impacts of Personal Watercraft (471KB PDF*)
- Rogers & Smith, 1997: Buffer Zone Distances to Protect Foraging and Loafing Waterbirds (623KB PDF*)
- Snow, 1989: A Review of Personal Watercraft (1.1MB PDF*)
- Snow, 1989: A Review of Personal Watercraft Appendices (9.3MB PDF*)
- Sutherland & Ogle, 1975: Effect of Jet Boats on Salmon Eggs (647KB PDF*)
- US Dept of Commerce 2008: Final Environmental Impact Statement (multiple pdfs)
- US Dept of Interior, 1998: Proposed Rule - PWC (41KB PDF*)
- US Dept of Interior, 2000: Final Rule - PWC (188KB PDF*)
- US Dept of Interior, 2004: Gulf Islands PWC Environmental Assesment (3MB PDF*)