Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) management plan: chapter 8
IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE
Table 2. Implementation schedule of the action items listed in Table 1. Shaded boxes indicate proposed year of implementation.
Population Management - Action Items | Section/ Lead | Other | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
Maintain and enforce hunting ban | CWS | Provinces | Ongoing | ||||
Development of a monitoring strategy, and data presentation format | CWS | All jurisdictions | Develop Strategy | Implement Strategy | |||
Dynamic population model | CWS | Determine Data Gaps | Develop model | ||||
Delineation of management units | CWS | Ongoing | |||||
Ensure publication and/or distribution of relevant data | CWS | Provinces Researchers |
Ongoing | ||||
Maintain databases and share with CDC or a CDC equivalent | Ongoing | ||||||
Winter monitoring | CWS Provinces |
Ongoing | |||||
Plan and implement Harlequin Duck surveys | CWS | Provinces Researchers |
Unknown – contingent upon funding and timing | ||||
Develop Greenland monitoring strategy | CWS | Undetermined |
Implementation schedule (continued)
Habitat Protection - Action Items | Section/ Lead | Other | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | ||
Protect Harlequin Ducks on federal property | CWS | Other Federal Depts. | Outline protected areas | Determine potential sites | Work with department to protect | ||||
Work with forestry companies to minimize impacts on Harlequin Duck breeding habitat | CWS | Provinces | Begin consultation with forest companies | ||||||
Maintain and improve relations with hydroelectric companies to protect Harlequin Ducks | CWS | Provinces | Undetermined | ||||||
Develop relationship with aquaculture industry to protect Harlequin Ducks | Provinces | CWS | Undetermined | ||||||
Work in a preventative capacity to reduce offshore oil dumping | CWS | Ongoing | |||||||
Monitor and work to mitigate pesticide use | CWS Provinces |
Undetermined | |||||||
Refine a habitat protection strategy | CWS | Provinces | Develop strategy | ||||||
Protect important habitat | CWS Provinces Parks Canada |
Contingent upon habitat protection strategy | |||||||
Train Environmental Assessment officers and biologists in multiple departments, jurisdictions, and organizations | CWS | Provinces,Other Federal Depts. and Agencies | Initiate Program | Develop more comprehensive approach | Implement on larger scale |
Implementation schedule (continued)
Research - Action Items | Section/ Lead | Other | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | |
Develop Threat Assessment | CWS Provinces |
Initiate discussion | Complete Threat Assessment | |||||
1. Impact studies 2. Human encroachment impacts |
CWS Parks Canada Provinces Researchers |
Complete Threat assessment | Develop schedule of studies | Unknown | ||||
Gap analysis | CWS | Provinces | Contingent upon completion of threat assessment, monitoring strategy, and habitat protection strategy. | |||||
Complete mark-recapture study | CWS | Complete | Published | |||||
Complete genetic analyses | CWS | Undetermined | ||||||
Habitat model | CWS | Researchers | Undetermined |
Socioeconomic - Action Items | Section/ Lead | Other | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
Develop educational materials | CWS Provinces NGOs |
Ongoing | |||||
Develop and promote codes of practice | CWS Provinces |
Initial development | Complete | ||||
Stewardship promotion | CWS Other Federal Depts. and Agencies Provinces |
NGOs | Ongoing | ||||
Conduct public information sessions | CWS | Ongoing | |||||
Educate law enforcers | CWS Provinces |
Ongoing | |||||
Annual report | CWS | Complete | Complete |
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