Below is a list of "NMFS-OPR" series tech memos, which are published by the NMFS Office of Protected Resources.
| No. | Title | Author(s) | Year | Size |
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| NMFS-OPR-48 | An Assessment of the Final Rule to Implement Vessel Speed Restrictions to Reduce the Threat of Vessel Collisions with North Atlantic Right Whales | Silber, G.K. and S. Bettridge. | 2012 | 2.9 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-47 | Guidelines for Assessing Marine Mammal Stocks: Report of the GAMMS III Workshop, February 2011, La Jolla, CA | Moore, J.E., and Merrick, R. (editors) | 2011 | 1.3 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-46 | not yet published |
| NMFS-OPR-45 | A Protocol for Use of Shortnose, Atlantic, Gulf, and Green Sturgeons | Kahn and Mohead | 2010 | 524 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-44 | Vessel Operations in Right Whale Protection Areas in 2009 | Silber, G.K. and Bettridge, S. | 2010 | 558 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-43 | Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Corallium Science, Management, and Trade | Bruckner, A.W. and G. G. Roberts (editors) | 2009 | 1.2 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-42 | Report of a Workshop to Identify and Assess Technologies to reduce ship strikes of large whales | Silber, G.K., S. Bettridge, and D. Cottingham | 2009 | 401 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-41 | Report of the U.S. Longline Bycatch Reduction Assessment and Planning Workshop | NMFS Office of Protected Resources | 2008 | 202 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-40 | Proceedings of the International Cyanide Detection Testing Workshop | Bruckner, A.W. and G. Roberts (editors) | 2008 | 1.2 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-39 | Differentiating Serious and Non-Serious Injury of Marine Mammals: Report of the Serious Injury Technical Workshop | Andersen, M. S., K. A. Forney, T. V. N. Cole, T. Eagle, R. Angliss, K. Long, L. Barre, L. Van Atta, D. Borggaard, T. Rowles, B. Norberg, J. Whaley, and L. Engleby. | 2008 | 375 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-38 | In-water sea turtle monitoring and research in Florida: review and recommendations | Eaton, C., E. McMichael, B. Witherington, A. Foley, R. Hardy, and A. Meylan. | 2008 | 7.1 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-37 | Conservation Units of Managed Fish, Threatened or Endangered Species, and Marine Mammals Report of a Workshop: February 14-16, 2006 Silver Spring, Maryland | Thomas C. Eagle (Chair), Steven X. Cadrin, Megan E. Caldwell, Richard D. Methot, Marta F. Nammack | 2008 | 1.2 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-36 | Worldwide Bycatch of Cetaceans: An evaluation of the most significant threats to cetaceans, affected species and geographic areas of high risk, and recommended actions from various independent institutions | Young, N.M. and S. Iudicello | 2007 | 2.6 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-35 | Best Practices for the Collection of Longline Data to Facilitate Research and Analysis to Reduce Bycatch of Protected Species: Report of a workshop held at the International Fisheries Observer Conference Sydney, Australia, November 8, 2004 | Dietrich, K., V.R. Cornish, K.S. Rivera, T.A. Conant | 2007 | 776 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-34 | The proceedings of the CITES workshop on the conservation of sea cucumbers in the families Holothuridae and Stichopodidae. | Bruckner, Andrew W. | 2006 | 1.8 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-33 | Review of the Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event Response Program of the National Marine Fisheries Service | Gulland, F.M.D. | 2006 | 660 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-32 | Bottlenose Dolphins and Brevetoxins: A Coordinated Research and Response Plan | Gaydos, J. K. | 2006 | 324 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-31 | Hawaiian melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) mass stranding event of July 3-4, 2004 | Southall, B. L., R. Braun, F. M. D. Gulland, A. D. Heard, R. W. Baird, S. M. Wilkin and T. K. Rowles | 2006 | 4.4 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-30 | Protected Resources Program & the National Marine Sanctuary Program Strategic Planning Workshop Final Report. Working Together to Conserve and Recover Protected Resources in National Marine Sanctuaries | NMFS | 2006 | 726 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-29 | Report of the Workshop on Marine Turtle Longline Post-Interaction Mortality | Ryder, Cheryl E., Therese A. Conant, and Barbara A. Schroeder | >2006 | 297 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-28 | Deep Sea Coral Collection Protocols | Etnoyer, P., S. D. Cairns, J. A. Sanchez, J. K. Reed, J.V. Lopez, W.W. Schroeder, S. D. Brooke, L. Watling, A. Baco-Taylor, G. C. Williams, A. Lindner, S. C. France, and A.W. Bruckner. | 2006 | 1.1 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-27 | The Proceedings of the International Workshop on CITES Implementation for Seahorse Conservation and Trade | Bruckner, Andrew W., John D. Field, and Nancy Daves | 2004 | 592 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-26 | Proceedings of an International Technical Expert Workshop on Marine Turtle Bycatch in Longline Fisheries | Long, Kristy J., and Barbara A. Schroeder (editors) | 2004 | 7.4 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-25 | Large Whale Ship Strike Database | Jensen, Aleria S., and Gregory K. Silber | 2003 | 240 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-24 | Proceedings of the Caribbean Acropora Workshop: Potential Application of the U.S. Endangered Species Act as a Conservation Strategy, April 16-18, 2002, Miami, Florida | Bruckner, Andrew W. | 2003 | 4.6 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-23 | Proceedings of the International workshop on the trade in stony corals: Development of Sustainable Management Guidelines | Bruckner, Andrew W. | 2002 | 944 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-22 | Priorities for Effective Management of Coral Diseases | Bruckner, Andrew W. | 2002 | 800 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-21 | Report of a workshop on developing recovery criteria for large whale species | Angliss, Robyn P. et al. | 2002 | 201 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-20 | Ship traffic patterns in right whale critical habitat: Year one of the mandatory ship reporting system | Silber, Gregory K. et al. | 2002 | 866 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-19 | Workshop to design an experiment to determine the effects of longline gear modifications on sea turtle bycatch rates | Edited by: Bolten, Alan B. et al. | 2000 | 880 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-18 | A protocol for use of shortnose and Atlantic sturgeon | Moser, Mary L. et al. | 2000 | 384 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-17 | Domoic acid toxicity in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) stranded along the central California coast, May-October 1998 | Gulland, Frances | 2000 | 1.9 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-16 | Marine aquaculture, marine mammals, and marine turtles interactions workshop | Moore and Wieting, editors | 2000 | 1.1 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-15 | Gross evidence of human-induced mortality in small cetaceans | Read and Murray | 2000 | 1.7 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-14 | Development of a process for the long-term monitoring of MMPA category I and II commercial. Proceedings of a workshop held in Silver Spring, Maryland, 15-16 June 1998 | Didier and Cornish | 1999 | 6.2 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-13 | Differentiating Serious and Non-serious Injury of Marine Mammals Taken Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations: Proceedings of the Serious Injury Workshop; 1-2 April 1997, Silver Spring, MD | Angliss and DeMaster | 1998 | 3.3 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-12 | Guidelines for Assessing Marine Mammal Stocks: Report of the GAMMS Workshop April 3-5, 1996, Seattle, Washington | Wade and Angliss | 1997 | 273 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-11 | Report of the Workshop to Assess Research and Other Needs and Opportunities Related to Humpback Whale Management in the Hawaiian Islands | Payne et al. | 1997 | 482 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-10 | Acoustic Deterrence of Harmful Marine Mammal-Fishery Interactions | Reeves et al. | 1996 | 2.9 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-9 | National Contingency Plan for Response to Unusual Marine Mammal Mortality Events | Wilkinson | 1996 | 11.9 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-8 | Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine mammals: an analysis of current views and practices | St. Aubin et al. | 1996 | 1.7 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-7 | Pelatic longline fishery-sea turtle interactions | Williams et al. | 1996 | 602 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-6 | U.S. marine mammal stock assessments: guidelines for preparation, background, and a summary of the 1995 assessments | Barlow et al. | 1995 | 234 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-5 | Evaluation of a fisheries model for the harvest of hawksbill sea turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata, in Cuba | Heppell et al. | 1995 | 4.4 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-4 | Coastal stock(s) of Atlantic bottlenose dolphin: Status review and management | Wang et al. | 1994 | 5.4 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-3 | Review of the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle headstart program | Eckert et al. | 1994 | 486 KB |
| NMFS-OPR-94-3 | Pinniped Forensic, Necropsy, and Tissue Collection Guide | Dierauf, L.A. | 1994 | 2.9 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-94-2 | Marine mammal health and stranding response program: program development plan | Becker et al. | 1994 | 1.5 MB |
| NMFS-OPR-94-1 | NMFS Observer Programs: Minutes and recommendations from a workshop held in Galveston, TX Nov 10-11, 1993 | Credle et al. | 1994 | 7.8 MB |
