Section 7 Consultations on the Alaska Federal Fisheries and the ESA-Listed Bird Species

Seabird Bycatch Reduction Program - Section 7 Consultations

Section 7 Consultation - Biological Assessment on the Crab fisheries authorized under the Fishery Management Plan for BSAI King and Tanner Crabs, March 29, 2002
- NMFS letter to USFWS, April 2002
- NMFS letter to USFWS, August 2002
- USFWS Letter to NMFS, January 2003

Section 7 Consultation - Biological Opinion on the Effects of the Total Allowable Catch-Setting Process for the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Groundfish Fisheries to the Endangered Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) and Threatened Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri), September 2003
Section 7 Consultation - Programmatic Biological Opinion on the effects of the Fishery Management Plans for the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands groundfish fisheries on the endangered short-tailed albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) and threatened Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri), September 2003
Section 7 Consultation - Biological Opinion for 1999-2000 Hook-and-Line Groundfish Fisheries of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area (BSAI), March 19, 1999
- USFWS Letter to NMFS, January 10, 2001: Extension of 1999-2000 Biological Opinion
Section 7 Consultation - Biological Opinion for Pacific Halibut Fisheries in Waters Off Alaska, March 13, 1998
Spectacled Eider and Steller's Eider Critical Habitat regulations and economic analyses.

USFWS Final Recovery Plan for the Short-tailed Albatross: Prepared by the Short-tailed Albatross Recovery Team for USFWS, Region 7, Anchorage, Alaska, September 2008. (External link)