| - In addition to private property, there were many publicly owned natural resources at risk from this oil including birds, marine mammals, fish, shellfish, outer beaches and rocky shores, and the estuaries from Coos Bay to Yaquina Bay. Studies determined that:
- Four to eight western snowy plovers (a state- and federally listed threatened species) likely perished;
- 672 other shorebirds were injured or killed;
- 62 marbled murrelets (also a state- and federally listed threatened species) were killed;
- 2,203 other seabirds and gulls were killed; and
- About 29,000 recreation trips were lost or diminished (valued at approximately $400,000).
- For the New Carissa spill, the natural resource trustees included the DOI, USDA, the State of Oregon, the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians of Oregon and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon.
- The responsible parties in this oil spill are the owners, operators and insurers of the New Carissa, as well as the master of the ship at the time of the incident.
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