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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Fred Benko, Ed Cassano. Timecode In: 00:15:59. Timecode out: 00:39:03. Notes: Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Ed Cassano. Timecode In: 01:05:14. Timecode out: 01:08:41. Notes: Underwater description and explanation. Subject 3: California sea lion (Zalophus californianus). Subtitle: barking. Timecode In: 01:27:22. Timecode out: 01:29:33. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Fred Benko, Ed Cassano. Timecode In: 01:29:49. Timecode out: 01:31:50. Notes: Sea lions. Habitat: Ocean. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo; Spaced Omni Stereo. NMS RE Channel Islands DAT #6 Fred Benko (FB) Ed Cassano (EC) Alex Chadwick (AC) Michael Schweppe (MS) 0:01 Spaced ominis? Getting into Kayak __0:12 "Getting into a kayak" foghorn in the background and sea bird fx (g) 0:17-0:40 Talk about getting into Kayak "how to", equip noise paddlig noises (g) and then waves 2:24 ms "okay this is a blow hole" crashing wave fx, occasional bird and fog horn 4:15 ms "okay that's fine, sounds nice" 4:50 going to a diff spot--arch? more paddling 5:28 ms "was looking for a waterproof tummy bag ... " travelling in the kayak, paddling, fh, more of the same 8:00-9: passing boat 8:08 loud fog horn again 8: 52 9:24 fh and passing boat 9:45 "Let's go check out this little cave" ms "okay" going towards cave water sounds getting louder 11:12 "ah, don't want to take a chance of spilling you" "yea let's not" "looks great but ... " ms forgets his life preserver 12:09 "photo shoot in the arch" water noises quieting down taking pictures of them in their kayaks lapping water 15:15 motor roar interview--fred monologue as paddling 15:58 Well, we're in ana cappa island here this is, the famous arch rock prob the most photographed and best seen feature of all the channel islands, this rock is the furthest east point on the northernmost channel island, east end of ana cappa island , a beautiful structure (g) beaut. arch. just to the right of us, right at the main island itself below the lighthouse and the fog horn which you can here off in the distance is one of the largest pelican rookeries in the world, this is the biggest of the brown pelican rookeries the rocks are all white and drenched with many years of pelican dung there b. pelican has come back very well after near extinction pretty close to losing all of them as a result of DDT destroying the integrity of the eggs, uh but now that DDT has been stopped and intensive protection has been put on these animals they've rebounded v well and b pelican stocks are back again 17:17 17:21 Fred, when the sanc. was first proposed there were a # of people that didn't think it was a very good idea people in yr. industry, sportsman, fisherman, and c told me that you were one of them, i don't know if that's exactly accurate or not 17:36 Well, none of us were evry excited about the prospect of having govt. regulation on an area that we pretty much regarded as our own--our fishing grounds for many years, urn but the sanc came in with the assurance that the fisheries would not be impacted that they would still stay under local control and so most of that resistance went away and with time oh there are still some hold outs some areas of commercial industry that are not in favor of the sanctuary but really not with any cause because the sanctuary has done an outstanding job and it has not interfered with our fisheries in any way and has enhanced the cooperation.. in fact protection afforded by the sanc. means good things for years to come. talk about hiking tours to ana cappa island 19:16 f "for my interests i think that santa rosa and san miguel are by far the most interesting of the island chains they are a lot more rugged and not as hospitable to the touri... (Notes truncated)
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- California sea lion Zalophus californianus
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- Cataloged
- 14 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 11 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 14 Sep 2009 - Ben Brotman