Under the leadership
of the Assistant Director, Fisheries and Habitat
Conservation (FHC), consists of four
organizational units that share a common
commitment to using sound science in its decision
making and to providing the American public
with information of the highest quality possible.
We adhere to the goal of strengthening the
Service's tradition of scientific excellence
and information quality in the conservation
of fish, wildlife, plants and their habitat.
On
this Web site FHC publishes
information regarding influential
and highly influential scientific information and
our plans to manage it. We provide links
to the Service's guidelines for ensuring
the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity
of information that we use and disseminate.
We also link to mechanisms for allowing the
public to seek correction of that information.
Peer
Review of Scientific Information
In
order to ensure the quality and credibility
of the scientific information we disseminate
to the public, the Fish and Wildlife Service
has implemented a formal “peer review” process
for influential and highly influential scientific
documents. More information on this subject
is available at the
Service's Information Quality Web site.
In addition, the Office of Management and
Budget has published government-wide
guidance (pdf file) to enhance the
practice of peer review of government science
documents.
Peer
Review Agenda
We
have identified the following FHC
documents as meeting the OMB criteria for
peer review of influential or highly influential
scientific information. Click on a title
to get more information about that document
and the peer review process we have planned
for it. This list will be updated as necessary.
Fisheries
and Habitat Conservation units are:
 Division
of Habitat and Resource Conservation
Division
of Environmental Quality
Division
of Fish and Wildlife Management and Habitat
Restoration
Division
of the National Fish Hatchery System
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