美國，阿拉斯加，2001-12-26 (Tidepool)-生物學家團隊在今年共進行150項以上的研究，調查史代拉海獅（又稱北方海獅）族群數量銳減且一直沒有恢復的可能原因，這或許是有史以來針對單一物種投入最多經費與人力的計畫。過去40年來，阿拉斯加灣與阿留申群島海域的海獅數量減少80％以上，從1960年代的180,000降到30,000以下。官方將其列入瀕危動物的政策卻威脅到阿拉斯加10億美元的捕魚業。這兩者的衝突，以及物種瀕危的警訊，終於促使美國國會採取行動。

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In what may be the most intense, well-funded investigation ever undertaken into a single species, an armada of biologists over this year launched more than 150 studies to find out why the Steller sea lion population crashed and what keeps the animals from bouncing back. Over the past four decades, the population plunged more than 80 percent across the Gulf of Alaska and out the Aleutian Chain, from almost 180,000 animals in the late 1960s to fewer than 30,000. The official listing of this western stock as endangered has threatened Alaska's $1 billion ground-fishing industry. That conflict, as much as the biological implications of a species sliding toward extinction, has spurred Congress to act. (12/26/01) From the Anchorage Daily News

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