by Carl Safina
off-limits near Midway, and tuna
practices, and eating fish
regulation of, to protect birds
risks and dangers of
seabirds follow boats for food
in tropics
tuna and
turtles killed by
wildlife and islands endangered by
fishing gear. See also specific types
by-kill and type of
derby vs. transferable quotas and
Steller Sea Lions caught by
traps, vs. lines and hooks
Fitzgerald, Jim
flight, seabirds built for
Flinder, Matthew
Flint, Dr. Beth
floods
Florida
shark attacks
turtle tumors
flyingfish
eggs
eggs, PCBs in
Flying Squid
food
albatross’s search for, north
of albatrosses
of Hawaiian Monk Seals
of Hawaiian seabirds
search for, smell and
of Tiger Sharks
food additives
food shortages. See also starvation of wildlife
albatross chicks, and sea temperatures
El Niño and
Monk Seals and
sea lions and
Steller Sea Lion and
“fool birds”
Forceps Butterflyfish
Fork-tailed Storm-Petrels
Forster, George
Forster, Reinhold
Fox Sparrow
France
French Frigate Shoals. See also East Island, Tern Island, Trig Island
debris polluting
Monk Seal survival at
ocean waves wash over
turtle breeding in
frigatebirds.
built to fly
mating by
nesting
Frost, Robert
Fryer, John
fuels, carbon-based
Fujisawa, Mr.
fulmars
hunger and aggressiveness of
furans
Gales, Dr. Rosemary
Galileo
Galápagos Islands
breeding sites
finches observed by Darwin
Galápagos (or Waved) Albatross
breeding sites
fishing industry and
navigation
range of
Galápagos Sharks
Gardner Pinnacles
gecko lizard
ghost crabs
Giant Cuttlefish
Giant Petrels
Giant Squid
Giant Trevally (Ulua)
Gilded Triggerfish
Gill, Dr. Frank
Gilmartin, Bill
gillnetting, eaten by albatrosses
Gladstone (ship)
glass, on beach
Glaucous Gulls
Glaucous-winged Gulls
global warming
Glossy Nightshade
Goatfish
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Goldring Surgeonfishes
Gough Albatross
Gough Island
Cough Wandering Albatross
Grant (fishing schooner)
grasses and sedges
alien, on islands
Laysan Island
Gray-backed Terns
Gray Chub (Nenue)
Gray-headed Albatross
breeding by
Gray Reef Sharks
great albatrosses (group)
Great Frigatebirds
lifespans of
weight of
Green Abalones
greenhouse effect
Greenpeace
Green Turtle (Honu)
blood samples for
breeding beaches
egg laying by
shark injuries of
tagging
travels of
tumors of
grenadier (fish)
Grigorovitch, George
Grizzly Bears
guano
Gulf of Alaska
gulls
fishing industry and
habitat destruction
halibut
hatching and life of
price
halibut fishery
by-kill
“seasons” in Alaska
hammerhead shark
Handel Seamount
Harbor Seals, go
Harrison, Craig S.
Hartman, Johnny
Hasegawa, Dr. Hiroshi
Hattori, Toru
Hawaii (island)
Hawaiian Anthias
Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse
Hawaiian Domino Damsels
Hawaiian Hogfish
Hawaiian Islands. See also specific islands
first people to reach
guardian spirit (‘aumakua) and
introduced species in
isolation of
origin and movement of
sharks and
turtle tumors and
Hawaiian Islands Bird Reservation (later Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge)
Hawaiian Monk Seal (Monachus schauinslandi)
attempt to save, from extinction
endangered by human actions
named
skewed sex ratios of
Swordfish and tuna fishery
Hawkins, Sir Richard
Hay, John
Haydn Seamount
heliotrope
Hemingway, Ernest
Hendrix, Jimi
Henkel, Tim
heptachlor
herpes virus
herring
Herring Gull
hexachlorobenzene
hooks, fishing
danger of, to wildlife
in fishheads thrown overboard
on long-line
“hook stripper”
hormone-mimicking contaminants
Horn of Africa
Huin, Dr. Nic
humans
albatross and
albatrosses on Midway killed by
albatrosses killed by, at island breeding sites
animals and
birds on Laysan Island killed by
chemicals and trash created by
exploitation vs. restoration by
global warming and
images of wildlife painted by
lack of fear of wildlife, on Laysan Island
Monk Seal decline and
oceans and wildlife needed by
overpopulation of
seals and
shark attack feared by
Short-tailed Albatrosses killed by
similarity of, to sharks
spiritual connection of, with endangered wildlife and
spread of, to remote islands, and seabirds killed by
squid-fishing by
Steller’s Sea Cow killed by
turtles killed by
Humboldt Current
Humboldt Squid
Humpback Whale
Hurricane Mitch
Idiotfish
Île de la Possession
immune system, go
Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean Yellow-nosed Albatrosses
Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs)
Indonesia
“International Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels” (1996)
International Whaling Commission
“intersex” individuals
islands. See also specific islands
fragile ecological balance of
losses of nesters on
spread of humans to remote
subsidence, coral reef growth and
Isles of the Apostles
Itano, David
Iwago, Mitsuaki
Iwo Jima
Izu Islands
&n
bsp; Jacobs, Capt. W. V. E.
Jakovleff, (mining engineer)
Japan
breeding sites in
feather hunting by
international conservation and
Midway and
seafood market of
Japanese fishing
U.S. waters and
whaling
Jaws (film)
jellyfish
Jorgerson, John
Juola, Frans
Jupiter, moons of
Justman, Bob
Kahului Bay
Kamchatka
Kamehameha, King of Hawaii
Kane, Herb Kawainui
Kancohe Bay
Kauai (island)
Keeltailed Needlefish
Kenai Fjords National Park
Kepler, Cameron
Kerguelen Island
Kilauea Volcano
killer-cells
Killer Whales
King, Joyce
King Crab
King Penguin
King Salmon
Kita-daitojima
Kitanoshima island
kittiwakes
Kobisho island
Kodiak Island
Kolai ‘Awa (morning glory)
Komatsu, Maseyuku
Korean fishing
krill, decline of
Kure Atoll
rats on
Kuril Islands
Kuroshio Current trash in
lab work, by seal team
Ladd Seamount
Lake Baikal Seals
Lamkin, Dr. John
lanternfish
La Pérouse Pinnacle
Laysan Albatross
appearance of
breeding by
breeding sites of
chicks, first flight of
chicks, survival rate
courtship dance of
decline of, and global warming
fishing industry and
food of
group of
killed by humans
killed by longlines
Laysan Island
Midway Island
nests of, and behavior toward chicks
number of
plastics eaten by
rats and
resilience of
sighted from Masonic
sighted off Midway
Tern Island and
use of ocean by, vs. Black-footed.
Laysan Duck
Laysan Finch
Laysan Honeyeaters
Laysan Island
albatrosses killed by feather hunters on
arrival at
as breeding site
biology crew of
Bonin Petrels on
debris on shores of
first scientists to see
human exploitation of, for eggs, guano and feathers
nesting birds on
protected as bird sanctuary
rabbits and devegetation of
remoteness of
sandbur, vs. bunchgrass and
shrubs and grasses on
size of
snorkeling reefs off
turtles
wildlife on
Laysan Rails
Lazy Bay fish-packing plant
lead-paint chips, chicks eating
LeBris, Jean-Marie
leg bands, in albatross studies
Leinecke, Jerry
Lepturus (grass)
Levine, Philip
Light-mantled Sooty Albatross
courtship dances of
group of
long-distances traveled by
reproductive rate of
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Linnacus, Carolus
Lisianski Island
birds killed by humans on
turtles on
lobster
fishermen, vs. seals
Loihi, forming island
longline fishery
Alaskan
chick mortality and
effort of, to reduce seabird mortality
management of, and ITQs
need to control, to protect albatross
pay in
seabirds killed by
Short-tailed Albatross and
size of
long-lines
bottom vs. drift
effect of
gear described
streamers or “scare” lines and
Lowe, Chris
Lum, Ron
Lundsten, Mark
Luther, Capt. Hiram
Macaroni Penguin
McArthur, David “Mac”
Machado, Walter
mackerel
MacLeish, Archibald
Macquarie Island, Australia
McVay, Callahan
magnetite, in birds
Mahimahi
Mahler Seamount
Majestic (fishing boat)
Makaloa (sedge)
Manybar Goatfish
Maoris
Marcus Island
Marine Mammal Commission
marine mammal die-offs
Marine Mammal Protection Act
Mariscus (sedge)
marlin
Maro Reef
Marquesas
Marshall, Greg
Masked Booby
divorce in
Masonic (fishing vessel)
Maui (island)
Mead, Margaret
Mediterranean Monk Seals
Melville, Herman
Meredith, Mike
Mew Gulls
Mexico
Midway Atoll
albatross and toothbrush on
birds killed on
as breeding site
dimensions of life on
Eastern Island
fishing off
management and maintenance of
military clean-up of
rats and
Sand Island and
scuba diving off
Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
Midway Phoenix Corporation
Milletseed Butterflyfish
Mills, Bill
Minami-daitojima
Minami-kojima
Minke Whales
mirex
Mitchell, Joni
Moby-Dick (Melville)
“mollymawks,”
Moloney, Coleen
Monk Seals
adopted pups and
beach debris and
diet of
on East Island
endangered by humans
fishing industry and
food scarcity and
population decline
pups
foraging by
name derivation of
offspring survival of
sampling of, by biologists
sharks and
skewed sex ratios of
survival problems of
tagging
Moorish Idols (fish)
moray eel
morbillivirus
Moriori people
Morwong
Mouritsen, Dr. Henrik
Mozart Seamount
Mundy, Peter
Murphy, Jim
Murphy, Robert Cushman
murrelets
murres
Musicians Seamounts
Nama (Hawaiian succulent)
Namakaokahai (goddess of sea)
national forests
National Geographic
National Marine Fisheries Service
national parks
National Research council
Native Aleutian people
natural selection
Naupaka bushes
navigation
Polynesian
by seabirds
Necker Island
Neon Flying Squid
nesting
burrow vs. underground
grasses necessary for
nest(s)
/>
abandoned because of heat
time spent incubating egg on
visits to, by humans
nets. See also drift-nets; gillnetting; shrimp industry
amount and travel of
on Laysan Island
on reefs
sea lions and
seals and
shrimp, by-kill
New England fisheries disaster
New Guinea
New South Wales, Australia
New Zealand
breeding sites
conservation measures back by
Department of Conservation
streamer lines and
Nickerson, Nick
Nihoa Island
Nixon, Richard
noddies
Norfolk (ship)
North America
North Atlantic
Northern Bluefin Tuna, price of
Northern Fulmars
Northern Fur Seal
Northern Gannet
Northern Royal Albatross
breeding sites
distances traveled by
North Pacific
breeding sites in
cold vs. tropical side of
killing of albatrosses in
longline fisheries in
North Pacific albatrosses (group)
North Pacific Albatross Working Group
North Pacific Current
North Pacific Longline Association
Northwest Hawaiian Islands
as breeding site
feather and down hunters in
food needs of seabirds of
importance of
movement of
seals in
turtles in
Northwest Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge
Oahu (island)
Oceanic Society
oceans
careers in
human effects on
temperature of
vastness of
water flow rate and nutrients in
octopus
fishing for
Okino-daitojima
Orangeband Surgeonfishes
Orange County Marine Institute
Orangespine Unicornfish
Oregon
Orion
Ornate Butterflyfish
overfishing
of tuna, threat to seabirds of
overpopulation
Oyashio Current
Pa’ao (Tahitian priest)
Pacific Cod
Pacific Halibut
Pacific Plate
Pacific Yellowtail
PAHs
Pairis, Amber
Palenosed Parrotfish
Panama
parasites
Parker (whaler)
parrotfishes
passenger ships
Patagonian Shelf
Patagonian Toothfish (“Chilean seabass”)
PCBs
Black-footed Albatrosses and
