Pearl and Hermes Reef
trash on
Pearl Harbor
Pearl Wrasse
Pelagic Cormorants
Pele (goddess of volcanoes)
penguins
killed by humans
pollution and
Pepi, Vanessa
Peru
Pescadore Islands
pesticides
phalaropes
Phoebetria (genus name of Sooty Albatross)
phytoplankton
plankton
in cool water
sea temperatures and
plastic debris. See also debris
albatross chicks killed by
eaten by seabirds
on Laysan Island shores
seals entangled in
Plath, Sylvia
Pleiades (Makali’i)
poachers, in Antarctic waters
Poland
polar bears
poles, orientation of birds and
pollution. See also global warming; plastic debris
albatrosses and
humans affected by
polar bears and
turtles and
Polynesians
POPs
predation
mammals and
seals and
struggle to survive and
Pribilof Islands
Princess of Wales (seal boat)
prions
Prokofiev Seamount
pumice
purse-seine fishing, for tuna
Pyle, Peter
rabbits
Rachmaninoff Seamount
rats
ravens
rays, electric
Red-footed Boobies
nesting
Red-tailed Tropicbirds
Republic (boat)
“restoration ecologists”
Reynolds, Michele
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (Coleridge)
Rochefort, Joseph
Rocho, Julie
rockfishes
Rogatien Bank
Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy)
Rose Atoll
Rosy Finch
Royal Albatrosses
breeding by
courtship by
flight and anatomy of
lifespan of
taxonomy of
Royal Charter (ship)
Ruddy Turnstones
Rugged Island
Rurutu island
Russia
fishing
Ryan, Peter
Sablefish (Black Cod)
taste of and market for
Sablefishing
by-catch
long-lines for
Masonic and
Saddle Wrasse
Saginaw (ship)
salmon
Alaskan, decline of
collapse of West Coast
farm-raised
fishing
salmonella
Salvin’s Albatross
Samoa
sandbur (Cenchrus)
satellites
data e-mailed to teachers
sea-surface temperature maps and
tracking devices and
sauries
Savannah Sparrow
“scare lines”
Schauninsland, Hugo
Schlemmer, Max
Schonberg, Pete
Schubert Seamount
science
critical thinking and
fishery management and
mythology of Hawaiian Islands and
study of seals and
study of marine animals and
Scoresby, Rev. William
“scraping checker”
scuba diving, off Midway island
sea. See ocean
seabirds. See also albatrosses; and specific species
ability of, to stay warm
anatomy of, and flight
eaten by mariners
extinction of
fishing and effort to protect
“fishing” for, on passenger vessels
global warming and
killed annually by longlines
killed by Alaskan vs. Australian fleet
killed by drift nets
killed by feather hunters
killed by humans
Laysan Island
loss of, on Pacific islands
Masonic and
Midway Atoll
navigation by
nesting, and bunchgrass
North Hawaiian Islands
Polynesians and
as predators of other seabirds
rats and
recognize each other
“scare lines” and
short-distance homing by
time spent breeding
Sea Cow protection petition of 1744
sea foam
PCBs and
smell of fat in
sealers
sea-level rise
sea lions, decline of
seals. See also specific species
adult male aggression in
die-offs of, go
decline of
entangled in nets
fur of
lab, on Tern Island
sharks and
starvation by
Sea Otter
Search for the Giant Squid (video)
Seashore Rush Grass
Seaside Morning Glory
sea-surface temperature
sea turtles
on East Island
mating
tumors of
Senkaku Islands
Senkaku Retto (island group)
Sergeant Majors
Seward, Alaska
sexual development, pollutants and
Shackleton, Ernest
shark-fishing
shark(s)
attacks
deep-water
guardian spirit concept (‘aumakua)
Monk Seals and
research on
scuba diving and
seals and
sensory capabilities of
tuna-tagging project and
turtles and
Shaw, Melissa
shearwaters
Shelvocke, George
Shetland
Shortraker Rockfish
Short-tailed (Steller’s) Albatross
defined
endangered
feather hunters and
fishing and
Japanese and
Masonic and
near extinction of
number of
population increases of, recent
taxonomy of
shrimp industry
nets, and by-kill
Shy Albatross
Sicily
Sidespot Goatfish
Sierra Club
Sikes, John
Sitkinak Island (and Strait)
skates, on long-lines (gear)
skates (stingless rays)
Skipjack Tuna
smell, sense of
bonding and
olfactory equipment
search for food and
of tubenoses, highly-developed
Snares Islands
Sobraon (ship)
Sockeye salmon
Solander Islands
songbirds, two compasses of
Sooty Albatross
courtship dances of
follow ships
genus name of
group of
sooty albatrosses (group)
Sooty Shearwater
decline of
navigation by
Sooty Terns
beauty of
continuous flight of
Laysan Island
Tern Island
South Africa
breeding sites
South Atlantic, trash in
Southern Bluefin Tuna
price of, in Japan
Southern Hemisphere albatrosses (group)
Southern Ocean
albatross range in
longline fisheries and
wind and evolution of albatross
Southern Royal Albatross
South Georgia Island
South Korea
South Pacific
sparrows
speciation
Spectacled Parrotfish
sperm count, pollution and
Sperm Whales
Spinner D. (dive boat)
Spinner Dolphins
Sporobolus (grass)
squid
fishing industry and
as food of albatross
squirrelfish
St. Paul and St. Peter (ships)
Star-eye Parrotfish
stars
navigation of birds and
starvation of wildlife. See also food shortages
albatrosses
albatross chicks
seabirds, and overfishing
seals
sea temperature and
Sooty Tern
Steinbeck, John
Steiner, Rick
Steller, Georg Wilhelm
Steller’s Eider
Steller’s Jay
Steller’s Sea Cow
Steller’s Sea Eagle
Steller’s Sea Lion
Stevens, William K.
storm-petrels
storms
Strait of Gibraltar
Strathmore (ship)
Stravinsky Seamount
streamers and line weights, to protect seabirds
subantarctic, longline fishing in
subarctic frontal zone
subtropical frontal zone
Surgeonfishes
Surge Wrasse
Swordfish
swordfishing industry
hooks and
long-lining and
Tahiti
Taiaroa Head
Taiwan
Tanager Expedition (1923)
Tanner Crab
Tasmania
Tasmanian Shy Albatross
Tasman Sea
T-cells
Tchaikovsky Seamount
Teardrop Butterflyfish
Tern Island. See also Amelia
albatross chicks and flight from
breach by waves kills chicks on
deadly weather on
global warming and sea-level rise on
heat stress on brooding adults on
Monk Seals on
as ocean monastery
PCBs and
storm washes away chicks on
turtle researchers on
wildlife on, vs. Laysan Island
terns. See also specific species
age of nesting
chicks
reading other
tropical
Thetis (U.S. cutter)
Thick-billed Murres
Thimble Jellyfish
Thompson, Mark
Thoreau, Henry David
Threadfin Butterflyfish
Tickell, Lance
Tiger Shark
diet of
film
fledgling albatrosses eaten by
movements of
tracked by transmitter
Time
tobacco
Tonga
toothbrush, as message of albatross
Torishima island
birds killed on
breeding sites
Short-tailed Albatross and
Townsend Cromwell (U.S. scientific ship)
toxaphene
toxins, in algal and cyanobacterium blooms. See also chemical pollutants
transmitter
birds tracked with
defined
Green Turtle tracked with
Tiger Shark tracked with
transmittered adults
chicks of
departure of, from Tern Island
trash. See also chemical pollutants; drift nets; nets; plastic debris
Tredick, Catherine
Trig Island
Tristan da Cunha group
tropical Pacific, loss of seabirds in
tropicbirds
crippled by reduced leg muscle
on Laysan Island
nesting
tube-nosed seabirds (Procellaria)
defined
Tufted Puffins
Tugidak Island
tuna. See also specific species
depletion of
researchers
speed of
tagging project
tropical seabirds and
tuna fishing
boats, size and power of
long-line fishing for
long-lining, seabird protection devices
Tupaia (navigator)
turbot
Turtle Island Restoration Network
turtles. See also specific species
breeding colonies of, destroyed
eggs, survival rate of
fishing regulation to protect
Hawaiian
Tern Island research on
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (film)
Twiss, John
Umnak Island
unicornfish
United Kingdom, breeding sites
United Nations
drift nets banned by
“Plan of Action for Seabirds”
United States
breeding sites
fishing and marine wildlife agreements
long-line fishing fleet
military, and Midway Atoll
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of State
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
review of seabird status in tropical Pacific
Tern Island facility
Uotsurijima (island)
upwelling, El Niño and
Vedo, Carl
Verbesina (exotic plant)
Verdi Seamount
Vermilion Rockfish
Viggiano, Anthony
Virgil
vitellogenin (protein)
volcanic islands
vultures
Wahoo (Ono)
Wake Island
breeding sites
Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans )
anatomy of, and flight
breeding age and decline of
breeding by
breeding sites of
courtship dancing by
distances traveled by
fish hooks swallowed by
follow ships
killed by humans
name and taxonomy of
population, and longline fishing
range of
sleeping in flight
Wang, Shiway
Washington State
Waved Albatross. See Galapagos Albatross
weather
Wedge-tailed Shearwaters
Wegmann, Alex
western Pacific
Wetherbee, Brad
Wetmore, Alexander
whales
killed by drift nets
whaling
Japan and
Whitebar Surgeonfishes
White-tipped Reef Shark
wildlife
human population growth and
Japan and protection of
paintings of
preservation of, on Midway
refuges
William the Conqueror
wind
albatross and
global warming and
Wolfe, Capt. Dave
Woodward, Rebecca
Wordsworth, Florence
Wordsworth, William
World Conservation Union
World War II
wrasses
Yamamoto, Shoji
Yamashina, Yoshimaro
Yellowfin Soldierfish
Yellowfin Tuna (Ahi)
Yellow-nosed Albatrosses
Yellowstriped Coris (Hilu)
Yellow Tangs
zooplankton
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CARL SAFINA grew up loving the ocean. He is a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship and a Pew Scholar’s Award in Conservation and the Environment. His first book, Song for the Blue Ocean, won him a Lannan Literary Award. Safina earned his Ph.D. studying seabirds and later founded the National Audubon Society’s Living Oceans Program. He is a Visiting Fellow at Yale University.
Copyright © 2002 by Carl Safina
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