Archived Hot Topics
Archived Hot Topics
- 09/11/2012
- Negative 90-day finding on a petition to delist the Southern Oregon/ Northern California Coast ESU of coho salmon under the Endangered Species Act
- 09/09/2012
- Updated data on increase in sea turtle strandings in the Gulf of Mexico
- 09/09/2012
- Updated data on dolphin/ whale (Cetacean) Unusual Mortality Event in Northern Gulf of Mexico
- 08/30/2012
- Georgia Aquarium permit application to import 18 beluga whales for public display
- 08/27/2012
- 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List Five Species of Sturgeon as Threatened or Endangered Under the ESA
- 08/27/2012
- 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Queen Conch as Threatened or Endangered Under the ESA
- 08/17/2012
- NMFS Announces the extension of the public comment period on the bowhead subsistence quota DEIS to August 31, 2012
- 08/07/2012
- 2012 Draft Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports
- 08/06/2012
- Update: Draft Programmatic EIS concerning Effects of Oil and Gas Activities in the Arctic Ocean
- 08/01/2012
- NMFS announces 90-day finding on petition to delist Hawaiian green turtle population
- 07/31/2012
- NMFS finalizes Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Plan amendments to permanently restrict medium mesh gillnet nighttime fishing in NC coastal waters from Nov 1-Apr 30 annually
- 07/12/2012
- NMFS announces the receipt of a petition for rulemaking from the Pribilof Island Community of St.Paul Island, to revise regulations governing the subsistence taking of northern fur seals on St. Paul Island.
- 06/27/2012
- Sei Whale 5-Year Review
- 06/25/2012
- NOAA announced that the final determination on the proposed revision to critical habitat for Hawaiian monk seals will be made no later than December 2, 2012
- 06/15/2012
- Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Issuing Annual Quotas to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission for a Subsistence Hunt on Bowhead Whales from 2013-2017/2018, Open for comment through 08/14/2012
- 06/13/2012
- NMFS announces 12-month finding on petition to revise leatherback turtle critical habitat in Puerto Rico
- 05/23/2012
- NMFS proposes to revise regulations for confidentiality of information collected under the Magnuson Stevens Act; Open for comment through 06/22/2012
- 05/21/2012
- Makah Indian Tribe request to authorize treaty-right hunting of gray whales in Washington state; NMFS requests comments on a set of new potential alternatives for Environmental Impact Statement
- 05/21/2012
- NMFS revises the turtle excluder device (TED) requirements to allow the use of new materials and to modify existing approved TED design
- 05/21/2012
- Final 2011 Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports Published
- 05/18/2012
- "Good Neighbors: How to Share Hawaii's Beaches with Endangered Hawaiian Monk Seals" video released
- 05/16/2012
- FY13 Prescott Grant Funding Opportunity for Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance
- 05/10/2012
- NMFS proposes to withdraw the alternative tow time restriction and require turtle excluder devices (TEDs) for all skimmer trawls, pusher-head trawls, and wing nets (butterfly trawls), open for comment through 07/09/2012
- 05/03/2012
- Taxa Being Considered for Amendments to the CITES Appendices; Open for Comment (to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
- 04/18/2012
- NMFS proposes that the eastern population of Steller sea lions is recovered and can be taken off the Endangered Species list, open for comment through 06/18/2012
- 04/17/2012
- NMFS intends to update blue whale recovery plan and prepare a North Pacific right whale recovery plan, open for comment through 05/17/2012
- 04/13/2012
- Coral reports available for public review, open for comment through 07/31/2012
- 04/12/2012
- Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Plan Amendments to permanently restrict medium mesh gillnet nighttime fishing in NC coastal waters from Nov 1-Apr 30 annually, open for comment through 05/14/2012
- 04/04/2012
- New App helps mariners avoid endangered North Atlantic right whales
- 04/02/2012
- Range extension for the endangered Central California Coast coho salmon
- 03/31/2012
- NMFS delivered the draft Biological Opinion on the registration of three dinitroaniline herbicides to EPA and has posted the draft to their docket; EPA seeks comments by 04/30/2012
- 03/26/2012
- Study by NOAA and Partners Shows Some Gulf Dolphins Severely Ill
- 03/21/2012
- NMFS Initiates 5-year review of North Atlantic and North Pacific right whales
- 03/15/2012
- NOAA authorizes WA, OR, and ID to remove California sea lions that threaten protected salmon in the Columbia River Basin
- 03/15/2012
- Upgraded NOAA Navigational Charts help mariners avoid North Atlantic right whales
