The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) requires NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to distinguish between injuries to marine mammals that are serious and not serious, where a “serious injury” is defined as an injury that is more likely than ...

This American Samoa Archipelago Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP) was developed by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and represents the first step in an incremental and collaborative approach to implement ecosystem approaches to fishery m...

The Northeast Deep-sea Coral Initiative will support a variety of work to better characterize DSCS and their associates and ecosystems (Fig. 3). This work will include efforts to better map specific habitats where accurate bathymetric information is lacki...

The Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) requires NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to distinguish between injuries to marine mammals that are serious and not serious, where a “serious injury” is defined as an injury that is more likely than ...

This year’s Florida spawning effort was modified from our usual team effort in Key Largo to a collaborative effort with the University of Miami (UM-RSMAS) and SECORE split between two operations: Miami-based and Key Largo-based. For field operations in Mi...

The Lost City 2005 cruise plan overview

This Plan provides a benchmark of stated goals and targets in order to track coral restoration progress at prioritized sites on St. Croix and St. Thomas. Through a coordinated and cooperative process, VI-RoCS chose six priority sites including two on St. ...

Florida Coast Deep Corals 2005 Expedition's cruise plan overview.

This document is a combined revised Fishery Management Plan (FMP), Environmental Assessment (EA), and Regulatory Impact Review (RIR) for Billfish and Associated Species of the Western Pacific Region. The FMP would establish regulations applicable to domes...