Primary Role: The primary role of Robson Bight (Michael Bigg) Ecological Reserve is to provide a sanctuary for killer whales and to protect significant killer whale habitat. It is the only sanctuary for killer whales on the west coast of Canada and is globally significant. The whales are a large tourism draw for the North
Andrew Trites and Wesley Hochachka , Marine Mammals research unit, UBC report on the movements of vessels and orcas during the daylight hours during the three summerrs. See the 46 page PDF:killer_whales_and_vessel_activity_1991-1993
M. Wong, E.Gregr, and L. Elliott report on the 1992 Season. See the 29 page PDF:visitor_program_1992
1991 Season report See 43 page visitor_program_1991 PDF:
Linda Ann Layman (now Linda Cathrine Grayce Seager), in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts in Biology , Crown College. see PDF: effects_of_boat_noise_on_vocal_whale_behaviour
Impact of Human Activities on Killer Whales at the Rubbing Beaches in the Robson Bight Ecological reserve and Adjacent Waters During the Summers of 1987 and 1989. A Ministry of Parks report by David Briggs. See the 48 page report: impact_of_humans_on_killer_whales_at_rubbing_beaches
On Google Books there is a fair amount of chapter 4 reproduced. Edited by Karen Pryor and Kenneth S. Norris U. of Calif Press, 1991 Chapter 4: The Interactions Between killer Whales and Boats in Johnstone Strait, BC. p149
June 28 until September 4th and then extended to Sept 30. See the 23 page PDF: visitor_program_1990
David Duffus and Philip Dearden’s report updates the results of research designed to analyze non-consumptive whale use at Robson Bight…. see the PDF : non-consumptive_use_and_management_of_whales
Terrence Lewis reported on the vulnerability of the ER to windfall on the southwestern boundary. Climatology and soil structure are discussed See the 42 page pdf: sw_boundary_potential_impacts
Blood, MacAskie and Low submitted this very thorough 92 page report to the ER program, Ministry of Parks. Physical and Biotic features are dealt with as are management problems . See the full PDF:1988_background_report
David A. Briggs summarizes the findings on whales and boat usage patterns of the rubbing beach area and makes management suggestions for the area. See 76 page PDF:use_of_rubbing_beaches_by_boats_and_whales Rubbing Beach at Robson Bight:( from PBS documentary see above)
See the PDF: background_report_of_human_activities Robson Bight Brochure is included.
Preliminary Report : by David Duffus and Philip Dearden, Dept of Geography, U.Vic See 42 page PDF:preliminary_report_non-consumptive_use_and_management_of_whales
An Assessment of the impacts of Human Activities on the Killer Whales of Robson Bight, Ecological reserve with Management guidelines. December 1966 by James Darling. See the PDF: Robson Bight ER Management b85133ocr
Robin E. Taylor submitted this in partial fulfillment for a degree of Master of Natural Resource Management , SFU. Boaters with a great deal of experience such as researchers and Photographers could possibly be a major source of disturbance. —-However, researchers are self-regulating , they are generally compliant to the terms of their permits, however
A submission to the Wilderness Advisory Committee by George and Kay Wood in January 1986. In their view , the committee with its industrial bias was unfit and incompetent to give advice to the government on issues relating to naming and definition of the wilderness issue, and to the uncontorlled logging occurring in the Tsitika