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Option 1

Article title

Environmental issues with salmon

Article Evaluation

Longer than expected as it is a start class article. Focus on North American salmon fisheries, section for environmental pressures could be more all-encompassing and less specific (sections for disease and parasites instead of separate listings for sea lice and UDN). Could include sections for human induced pressure and environmental pressure, so that fishery pressure could fall under human-induced. Talk page very short and not very helpful for this article.

Sources

(further reading section-should find more peer reviewed info)

Atlas of Pacific Salmon, Xanthippe Augerot and the State of the Salmon Consortium, University of California Press, 2005, hardcover, 152 pages, ISBN 0-520-24504-0
Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis, Joseph E. Taylor III, University of Washington Press, 1999, 488 pages, ISBN 0-295-98114-8
Trout and Salmon of North America, Robert J. Behnke, Illustrated by Joseph R. Tomelleri, The Free Press, 2002, hardcover, 359 pages, ISBN 0-7432-2220-2
Come back, salmon, By Molly Cone, Sierra Club Books, 48 pages, ISBN 0-87156-572-2 – A book for juveniles describes the restoration of 'Pigeon Creek'.
The salmon: their fight for survival, By Anthony Netboy, 1973, Houghton Mifflin Co., 613 pages, ISBN 0-395-14013-7
A River Lost, by Blaine Harden, 1996, WW Norton Co., 255 pages, ISBN 0-393-31690-4. (Historical view of the Columbia River system).
River of Life, Channel of Death, by Keith C. Peterson, 1995, Confluence Press, 306 pages, ISBN 978-0-87071-496-2. (Fish and dams on the Lower Snake River.)
Salmon, by Dr Peter Coates, 2006, ISBN 1-86189-295-0
Lackey, Robert T (2000) "Restoring Wild Salmon to the Pacific Northwest: Chasing an Illusion?" In: Patricia Koss and Mike Katz (Eds) What we don't know about Pacific Northwest fish runs: An inquiry into decision-making under uncertainty, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Pages 91–143.
NEWS January 31, 2007: U.S. Orders Modification of Klamath River – Dams Removal May Prove More Cost-Effective for allowing the passage of Salmon
Salmon age and sex composition and mean lengths for the Yukon River area, 2004 / by Shawna Karpovich and Larry DuBois. Hosted by Alaska State Publications Program.
Trading Tails: Linkages Between Russian Salmon Fisheries and East Asian Markets. Shelley Clarke. (November 2007). 120pp. ISBN 978-1-85850-230-4.
The Salmons Tale one of the twelve Ionan Tales by Jim MacCool
"Last Stand of the American Salmon," G. Bruce Knecht for Men's Journal
Sea Lice and Salmon: Elevating the dialogue on the farmed-wild salmon story Watershed Watch Salmon Society, 2004.
Wild Salmonids in the Urbanizing Pacific Northwest, edited by J. Alan Yeakley, Kathleen G. Maas-Hebner, and Robert M. Hughes, 2014, Springer, 271 pp., ISBN 978-1-4614-8817-0

Option 2

Article title

Environmental impact of fishing

Article Evaluation

(start-class) Sections of this article are very short and do not seem to flow well together (specific section about sharks but no other specific marine animal mentioned, only section on recreational fishing impacts). Talk page is slightly helpful but mostly just points out flaws with the srticle with no specific suggestions for improvment. The article also seems opinionated and environmentalist.

Sources

further reading- need more about fishing impacts specifically

Castro, P. and M. Huber. (2003). Marine Biology. 4thed. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Hampton, J.; Sibert, J. R.; Kleiber, P.; Maunder, M. N.; Harley, S. J. (2005). "Changes in abundance of large pelagic predators in the Pacific Ocean". Nature. 434: E2–E3.
Maunder, M.N.; Sibert, J.R.; Fonteneau, A.; Hampton, J.; Kleiber, P.; Harley, S. (2006). "Interpreting catch-per-unit-of-effort data to assess the status of individual stocks and communities". ICES Journal of Marine Science. 63 (8): 1373–1385. doi:10.1016/j.icesjms.2006.05.008.
Myers, Ransom; Worm, Boris (2003). "Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities". Nature. 423 (6937): 280–3. Bibcode:2003Natur.423..280M. doi:10.1038/nature01610. PMID 12748640.
Polacheck, T (2006). "Tuna longline catch rates in the Indian Ocean: did industrial fishing result in a 90% rapid decline in the abundance of large predatory species?". Marine Policy. 30 (5): 470–482. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2005.06.016.
FAO Fisheries Department. (2002). The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Sibert; et al. (2006). "Biomass, Size, and Trophic Status of Top Predators in the Pacific Ocean". Science. 314 (5806): 1773–1776. Bibcode:2006Sci...314.1773S. doi:10.1126/science.1135347. PMID 17170304.
Walters, C. J. (2003). "Folly and fantasy in the analysis of spatial catch rate data". Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 60 (12): 1433–1436. doi:10.1139/f03-152.

Option 3

Article title: Fisheries and climate change
Article Evaluation: (Class C article) Very short article, not very much information about specific fisheries. However, this is a very broad topic that would be difficult to write a complete article about. Little mention of more inland fisheries, heavy focus on marine impacts. Talk page is very helpful in specific changes people would like to see and sources that could be useful.
Sources

(listed in the "other reading" section of the article) Bahri, Tarûb and Cochrane, Kevern (2011) "Climate change impacts on the world fisheries resources" In Review of the state of world marine fishery resources, pages 279–290, FAO Fisheries technical paper 569, FAO, Rome. ISBN 978-92-5-107023-9. Bakun A (1997) "Global synchrony in fish population variations" In Review of the state of world marine fishery resources, pages, FAO Fisheries Circular 920, FAO, Rome. Csirke, Jorge and Vasconcellos, Marcelo (1995) "Fisheries and long-term climate variability" In Review of the state of world marine fishery resources, FAO Fisheries technical paper 457, FAO, Rome. ISBN 92-5-105267-0. Powell AM and Xu J (2012) "The 1977 Global Regime Shift A Discussion of Its Dynamics and Impacts in the Eastern Pacific Ecosystem" Atmosphere-Ocean, 50 (4): 421–436. doi:10.1080/07055900.2012.716023 talk page also contains sources

Option 4

Article title: Ice cap climate
Article Evaluation: (Class c atricle with no importance rating) very short article on "ice cap climate" but I am still inclear on what that term is exactly. Needs citations in a few palces, and some information in this article is contradictory and does not make sense. Few citations and no links fot further information.
Sources: no further sources listed

Option 5

Article title
Effects of climate change on island nations
Article Evaluation
(Unrated article?) Short article as far as sections of information that are not examples of island nations and how that nation has been impacted. No information about more variable climate around island nations that we have dicussed in class. Could be more affectively organized by political, ecomonic, environmental inpacts, etc. Article is also opinionated.
Sources
no further reading listed in either the further reading section or talk page