Support for implementation of socioeconomic monitoring in Community-based Subsistence Fishing Area sites and proposed sites
In 1994, the Hawaiian legislature passed legislation which allowed for designation of Community-Based Subsistence Fishing Areas (CBSFAs) where communities could work with Hawai‘i’s Division of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to establish management meas...
Coral species identification training and capacity building workshop to support management of Indo-Pacific ESA-listed corals
Purpose/need: On October 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to list 83 species of coral as either threatened or endangered under the U.S.Endangered Species Act (ESA). After...
Quantifying extinction risk for ESA-listed coral species in the Wider Caribbean
THE ISSUE: Corals continue to undergo precipitous declines in population size. Seven Caribbean coral species have been listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), NOAA is required to monitor population status and trends throughout these species' range,...