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20 Mar 2014, 10:02 pm
The “Nine Dirty U.S Fisheries” (based on data published by the National Marine Fisheries Service) are: Southeast Snapper-Grouper Long line Fishery (66 percent discarded) – More than 400,000 sharks were captured and discarded in one year. [read post]
9 Mar 2014, 11:32 pm
Dennis Murphy and I examine a proposal by the Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to amend the existing regulations that implement the interagency consultation process set out in Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act by codifying their pre-existing practice of using surrogates to express the amount or extent of incidental take of listed species. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 11:31 am
On February 26, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game petitioned (pdf) the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to remove the Central North Pacific subpopulation of humpback whales from the federal list of endangered or threatened species. [read post]
21 Feb 2014, 1:54 pm
Today, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced (pdf) a 90-day finding on a petition to list the Hector’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori), the Baltic Sea subpopulation of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), the eastern Taiwan Strait subpopulation of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis), and the Fiordland subpopulation of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) under the Endangered Species Act. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 9:03 am
The National Marine Fisheries Service (Service) recently announced (pdf) a proposed amendment to the regulatory language of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) listing for the Southern Resident killer whale Distinct Population Segment (DPS). [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 8:33 am
The permitting agency, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), finalized rules last. . . [read post]
21 Jan 2014, 12:02 pm
National Marine Fisheries Service, No. 3:12-cv-00431, environmental groups challenged the operation of the Sandy Hatchery along the Columbia River in Portland, Oregon. [read post]
7 Jan 2014, 8:49 am
—as well as the National Conference of State Legislatures, County Executives of America, Fraternal Order of Police, National Sheriffs’ Association, Mississippi and Arkansas Attorneys General, Iowa Farmers Union, Safe Food Coalition, professors from 13 law schools, and editorials in a number of papers such as USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Tulsa World, the Denver Post, and the Washington Post. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 2:21 pm
National Marine Fisheries Service - 12/20/2013. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 3:40 pm
Environmental Protection Agency, No. 11-cv-00293 (pdf), plaintiffs sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), alleging that EPA’s oversight of pesticide ingredients, including trifluralin, triggered a duty to consult with the National Marine Fisheries Service about trifluralin’s possible effects on species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). [read post]
6 Dec 2013, 6:49 am
Second, the National Marine Fisheries Service has finalized a rule to require permanent seasonal speed restrictions for ships in high-use habitat of the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 9:01 am
In 2008, the National Marine Fisheries Service enacted seasonal speed limits on large ships along the U.S. east coast in areas of great risk to the endangered North Atlantic right whale, a species with only a few hundred animals left. [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 3:45 pm
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published a 90-day finding (pdf) on two petitions to list the pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and designating critical habitat for the species. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 10:22 am
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced (pdf) that it will not list the Gulf of Mexico population of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) as an endangered or threatened distinct population segment (DPS) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 1:48 pm
Last week, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a final rule (pdf) delisting the eastern distinct population segment (DPS) of the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) from the list of threatened and endangered species. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 2:21 pm
Department of Commerce The National Marine Fisheries Service has suspended its Dynamic Management Area program which protects endangered right whales from deadly ship strikes. [read post]
1 Oct 2013, 8:59 am
In December 2012, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) published (pdf) a proposed rule to list 66 species of reef-building coral as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and to re-classify two species from threatened to endangered. [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 11:42 am
Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service (collectively, the Services) issued a proposal rule to amend the regulations governing consultation under section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that would codify the practice of using surrogates to express the amount of extent of anticipated take in an incidental take statement issued concomitant with a biological opinion. [read post]
28 Aug 2013, 12:02 pm
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a final rule (pdf) adopting an “incremental” approach to preparing an economic impact analysis required for a critical habitat designation under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 9:34 am
The news was not all bad for the herring, however, as the National Marine Fisheries Service also stated that it will be working with the Atlantic States Marines Fisheries Commission and other partners "to implement a coordinated coast-wide effort to continue to address data gaps and proactively conserve river herring and their habitat." [read post]
