Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council: Final Report - Cooperative Agreement NA20NMF4410261 January 1, 2021 Through September 30, 2022
"The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (Council) is responsible for the management of Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) coral and fishery resources within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The Council is engaged in numerous activities to meet the conservatio...
South Atlantic Fishery Management Council: Final Report Cooperative Agreement (NA17NMF4410271) October 1, 2017 September 30, 2020
"During the period October 1, 2017, to September 30, 2020, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) continued work to ensure the mandates of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA) are met relative to the conserv...
South Atlantic Fishery Management Council: Final Report for Grant NA20NMF4410260, FY 2020 FY 2021
"The following activities aided in the conservation and management of the South Atlantic coral resources under the SAFMC's Coral, Coral Reef and Live/Hard bottom Habitat Fishery Management Plan (Coral FMP). The work conforms to the Coral Reef National Act...
Ecosytem-Based Fisheries Management Thresholds for Hawai'i Nearshore Fisheries
"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has increasingly moved towards ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM). Updates to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 1...
Perception of Reef Habitat Change in the Gulf of Mexico
"This study summarizes the perceptions of various stakeholders regarding the status and condition of coral reefs in the Gulf of Mexico based on a survey of stakeholders through a questionnaire. The results of the survey were compared with known informatio...
Project: Monitoring and Adaptive LBSP Management on Culebra, PR: Install LBSP Management Corrective Actions PO 357 Cerro Balcon Paved Road Segment
"Combining several funding sources, Protectores de Cuencas (PDC) set out to pave a 0.25-mile segment on Cerro Balcon Road in Culebra, Puerto Rico. This segment has all the characteristics of a high-maintenance segment, including a slope of over 20 percent...
Ecological monitoring 2022 : reef fishes of the Mariana Archipelago
This report outlines a portion of the coral reef monitoring surveys conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s (PIFSC) Archipelagic Research Program (ARP) of the Ecosystem Sciences Di...
Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Benthic REA monitoring summary : Wake Atoll, 2017
This summary provides an overview of the most recent survey efforts conducted at Wake Atoll in April 2017 by the Ecosystem Sciences Division (ESD) of the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center as part of the Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring P...
2013-2023 Final Report : Sea Turtle Surveys and Tracking in the Mariana Islands Training and Testing (MITT) study area
The research detailed in this report provides important insights into the movement ecology of green and hawksbill turtles around the Mariana Islands, and in terms of sheer numbers of satellite tags deployed, represents the most rigorous individual study o...
This US-NOAA funded project on Socio-economic monitoring by Caribbean fishery authorities (Fisheries SocMon) was developed to build capacity in socio-economic monitoring for fisheries and coastal management and to develop a sustainable SocMon site monitor...