Linking Policy

Any reference from the NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Web Sites to any non-government entity, product, service or information does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration or any of its' field offices or employees. We are not responsible for the contents of any "off-site" web pages referenced from NMFS servers.

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The information on NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Web Sites is in the public domain, unless specifically annotated otherwise, and may be used freely by the public.

Our policy on linking from NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service Web Sites states that links must directly relate to the mission of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, and the information or data not be available from other Federal Internet sources.

External links to data not available from other Federal Internet sources must meet the following criteria:

• links are necessary for and material to the presentation of agency information or the delivery of services in the proper performance of an agency function, and
• reasonable steps are taken to ensure the presentation is accurate, relevant, timely, and
  complete, and
• reasonable steps are taken to assure that links remain active or otherwise continue to provide the level of quality (including objectivity, utility, and integrity) as intended by the agency and expected by users.
• do not constitute an endorsement as described in the following disclaimer: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/disclaimer.htm