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Delaware: ESA Section 6 Program
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Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Division of Fish and Wildlife
Dover, DE
Cooperative Agreement signed: December 11, 2007
Delaware's agreement lists the following species:
Endangered
- Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus)
- Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
- Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii)
- Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
- North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis)
- Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
Threatened
- Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)*
*Green turtles are listed as threatened, except for breeding populations of green turtles in Florida and on the Pacific coast of Mexico, where they are listed as endangered. - Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta)
Candidate
- Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus)
Species of Special Concern in Delaware
- Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)
- Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
- Sand tiger shark (Carcharias taurus)
Note: To be eligible for funding through the Species Recovery Grants program, species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) must be covered by the State's section 6 agreement. Proposed and candidate species that occur in the State do not need to be listed on the agreement to be eligible for funding.