Essential Fish Habitat

The Magnuson-Stevens Act mandates that any FMP must include a provision to describe and identify essential fish habitat (EFH) for the fishery, minimize to the extent practicable adverse effects on such habitat caused by fishing, and identify other actions to encourage the conservation and enhancement of such habitat. Essential Fish habitat has been broadly defined by the Act to include "those waters and substrate necessary to fish for spawning, breeding, feeding, or growth to maturity."

EFH

EFH motion 4/07

AI Habitat Conservation Area EA 3/07

April 2005 Final EFH EIS now available

Council HAPC/EFH motion and maps February 2005

December 2004 HAPC/EFH Council Motion

HAPC and EFH Motion from June 2004 Council Meeting

EFH Motion from October 2003 Council meeting, and HAPC proposal form and guidelines

Essential Fish Habitat Committee May 5-6, 2003 minutes

EFH Council motion April 2003, EFH Powerpoint Presentation

January 26, 2003 EFH Steering Committee Meeting Minutes

December 2002 EFH Motion, and Maps

October 2002 EFH Motion

June 02 EFH Council Motion

Fishery Descriptions of Principal Federal FMP Fisheries for the analysis of Essential Fish Habitat

EFH Report to the Council 1/02

EFH Report to the Council 12/01

Summary of EFH Workshop, November 6-8 2001

EFH Committee appointed 5/15/01

Committee Minutes September 16-18, 2002, Kodiak, AK May 15-17 Minutes, 2002, Sitka, AK March 27, 2002, Seattle, WA August 13-14, 2001 Minutes, Sitka May 30, 2001, Anchorage

EFH Litigation summary, from a powerpoint presentation

EFH NEPA Guidance for Developing Environmental Impact Statements for Essential Fish Habitat per the AOC v. Daley Court Order

Background information on EFH can be viewed on the following websites: www.fakr.noaa.gov/habitat/seis/default.htmEFH EIS public meeting web page  www.fakr.noaa.gov/habitat/efh.htm www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/efh www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/habitatprotection www.fisheries.org/publications/AFSBooks/webfinal/x540.22 www.fakr.noaa.gov/habitat/seis