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and others 1991, Singer and Carter 1992). Management 

 efforts to reduce or stop oil spills should be undertaken. 

 Industry and government efforts are underway to examine 

 how tanker traffic could be routed away from sensitive 

 coastal areas in California, Oregon, and Washington (Kelly, 

 pers. comm.; Oman, pers. comm.). However, oil traffic into 

 and out of major oil ports at Valdez (Alaska), Anacortes 

 (Washington), San Francisco, and Los Angeles (California) 

 will continue to threaten murrelet populations in adjacent 

 areas throughout the 21st century and beyond. 



Acknowledgments 



Information of various oil spills and other aspects of 

 marine pollution on the west coast were provided by: K. 

 Benkert, R.G. Ford, P.R. Kelly, G.S. Miller, J. Momot, S.K. 

 Nelson, L. Oman, G.W. Page, J.F. Piatt, E. Silver, S.M. Speich, 

 L.E. Stenzel, and K. Warheit. Tom Jennings and Debora 

 Flint provided/igure 1 and Gerard McChesney helped prepare 

 figure 2. This summary has benefitted from reviews and 

 editing by L.L. Long, J.F. Piatt, C.J. Ralph, and M.G. Raphael. 



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