Coordinating ecological risk assessment with natural resource damage assessment: A panel discussion

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 616-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Sanders ◽  
Mike Ammann ◽  
Rebecca Hoff ◽  
Mark Huston ◽  
Kenneth Jenkins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Ecological Risk Assessment ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Natural Resource Damage Assessment

APPLICATION OF ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT PRINCIPLES TO NATURAL RESOURCES DAMAGE ASSESSMENT

1997 ◽  
Vol 1997 (1) ◽  
pp. 1025-1026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan W. Maki ◽  
Ernest Brannon ◽  
Jerry M. Neff ◽  
Walter D. Pearson ◽  
William A. Stubblefield
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Ecological Risk ◽  
Ecological Risk Assessment ◽  
Damage Assessment ◽  
Pink Salmon ◽  
Prince William Sound ◽  
Exxon Valdez ◽  
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

ABSTRACT Ecological risk assessment principles are basic to the assessment of environmental injury during the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) process; however, what is sought is quantified injury, rather than quantified risk, to valued ecosystem components. These principles were used to develop an NRDA program for studies of injury to herring and pink salmon populations in Prince William Sound (PWS), Alaska, following the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Overall, exposures and subsequent effects of the spill on herring and salmon were minimal and post-spill harvests of the year's classes that were at greatest risk of spill injury were at or near record levels.

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