SGER: A Data Management System for Washington's Principal Ornithological Collections

商业渔船使用非常大的流网，其中包括海鸟在内的各种动物被缠住而死亡。流网可能是某些物种死亡的一个重要原因，华盛顿大学的西弗特·罗沃博士设计了一种方法来估计流网减少海鸟数量的程度。明年，美国鱼类和野生动物管理局的观察员将陪同来自日本、台湾和韩国的商业渔船。罗瓦博士已安排将用流网捕获的海鸟捐赠给华盛顿大学伯克博物馆，供进一步研究之用。这项标本采集和管理计划将使新的太平洋海鸟物种得以发现，并使生态学家能够确定受流网影响最大的物种。生态学家将能够确定以这种方式杀死的鸟类的年龄分布。这些资料将有助于制订捕鱼政策和设计受威胁或濒危物种的管理计划。

Commercial fishing vessels use very large drift nets in which a variety of animals, including seabirds, become entangled and die. Drift nets may be a significant source of mortality for some species, and Dr. Sievert Rohwer of the University of Washington has devised a method of estimating the degree to which drift nets are diminishing sea bird population. Observers from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be accompanying commercial fishing ships from Japan, Taiwan, and Korea this coming year, and Dr. Rohwer has arranged for the seabirds harvested in their drift nets to be donated to the Burke Museum of the University of Washington for further study. This program of specimen acquisition and curation will bring new Pacific seabird species to light, and will allow ecologists to determine the species that are most affected by drift nets. Ecologists will be able to ascertain the age distribution of birds killed in this manner. This information will help in the formulation of fishing policies, and the design of management plans for threatened or endangered species.