Agenda Item 6

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Agenda Item 6 Action Inclusion of Cormorants in
RMP Status and Trends Monitoring Process 1)
Technical report 2) EEWG review and
recommendation 3) TRC recommendation 4) SC
approval Desired Outcome Today Preview of
contents of the report
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Evaluation Against Selection Criteria
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Relevance to RMP Management Questions
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Relevance to RMP Management Questions
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Relevance to RMP Management Questions
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Relevance to RMP Management Questions
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Evaluation Against Selection Criteria
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Power Analysis
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Power Analysis
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Recommended Design

• 20 year sampling effort
• biennial sampling to reduce cost, but maintain
  reasonable power and obtain timely information on
  emerging contaminants annual sampling would
  provide answers in 20 years or less
• collect duplicates to continue to refine
  estimates of variance
• 10 egg composites at each location as a balance
  between obtaining representative samples and
  minimizing impact on reproductive output of each
  colony

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Recommended Design

• include PCBs, LPs, mercury, selenium, dioxins and
  dibenzofurans, PBDEs, PFCs other emerging
  contaminants recommended by the ECWG
• carefully archive samples for future
  retrospective analysis
• cost approximately 25K per year