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
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