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Pollution and fishing threats to marbled murrelets.
The threats to marbled murrelets vary depending on each location but overall populations have been declining.
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Threats include loss of habitat predation gill net fishing operations oil spills marine pollution and disease.
Marbled murrelets were assessed as threatened in canada by cosewic in 1990 and this status was confirmed.
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Marbled murrelets nest in trees along the coast and the forage and winter off the coast of northern america.
Small schooling fish such as pacific anchovy pacific herring candlefish and pacific sand lance make up most of the diet which may include small crustaceans when fish are not abundant.
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Marbled murrelets appear to establish long term pair bonds and fidelity to nesting areas and nest trees.
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Marine factors that have been identified as potential threats to murrelets include overfishing pollution unattended fishing gear human population growth and associated disturbance and more recently climate change.
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Recent reviews have concluded that the risk of predation is currently a larger threat then previously considered.
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The principal pollutant threats to marbled murrelets are chlorinated organic effluent discharges.