EFH for the Caribbean Council
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Overview The Caribbean Fishery Management Council (CFMC) is one of eight regional fishery management councils created by the 1976 Magnuson Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act in 1996, to manage living marine resources within that area. The CFMC is responsible for the creation of management plans for fishery resources (FMPs) in Federal waters off Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. These FMPS are for Corals and Reef Resources, Spiny Lobster, Reef Fish, and Queen Conch. The EFH descriptions and identifications for Caribbean FMPs were approved for 17 species on February 18th, 1999. This website is designed to inform viewers about these Caribbean EFH designations. The CFMC main office is located at: 268 Muñoz Rivera Ave., Suite 1108 About the Caribbean
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| • Caribbean Council EFH Textual Descriptions for Managed Species and Life Stages | |||||
| • EFH Generic Amendment to the FMPs of the US Caribbean, including a Draft Environmental Assessment (March 29, 1999) | |||||
| •Biogeography Benthic Habitat Maps of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands used to Depict Geographically Described and Identified EFH Habitats | |||||
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EFH National Information Home | ||||
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Caribbean Council EFH FEIS (American Oceans Campaign v. Evans Lawsuit) contains future EFH descriptions and identifications | ||||
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Life history information used to describe and identify EFH for Non Coral or Coral species by the Caribbean Council is accessible by using the jump bar below. General text and more species specific tabular descriptions of these federally managed species is available upon selecting a species from the Non Coral or Coral bars.
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