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02/17/2013
Updated data on dolphin/ whale (Cetacean) Unusual Mortality Event in Northern Gulf of Mexico
02/14/2013
Negative 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List 44 Species of Corals off Alaska as Threatened or Endangered
01/30/2013
Negative 90-Day Finding on Petitions To List White Marlin as Threatened or Endangered
01/22/2013
Draft Recovery Plan for North Pacific Right Whale
01/16/2013
Proposed Designation of a Nonessential Experimental Population of Central Valley Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Below Friant Dam in the San Joaquin River, CA
01/16/2013
Draft 2012 Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports: 10 stocks in the Atlantic have been revised; open for comment through 04/16/2013
01/14/2013
NMFS proposes critical habitat for Lower Columbia River Coho Salmon and Puget Sound Steelhead trout
12/21/2012
Populations of ringed seals and bearded seals are now listed under the Endangered Species Act
12/10/2012
Recent Dolphin Deaths in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Still a Concern and Mystery
11/30/2012
NOAA Proposes Listing 66 Reef-building Coral Species under the Endangered Species Act
11/29/2012
NMFS publishes False Killer Whale Take Reduction Plan to reduce bycatch in Hawaii's longline fisheries
11/28/2012
NMFS lists the Main Hawaiian Islands insular false killer whale distinct population segment (DPS) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
11/27/2012
Positive 90-Day Finding on a Petition To Delist the Southern Resident Killer Whale
11/11/2012
Updated data on increase in sea turtle strandings in the Gulf of Mexico
11/08/2012
Proposed Revisions to the Regulations for Impact Analyses of Critical Habitat, Comment Period Reopened through 02/06/2013
11/07/2012
Negative 12-month finding on a petition to list the Bumphead Parrotfish under the Endangered Species Act, species no longer a candidate for listing
11/01/2012
NMFS seeks comments on a revised application to incidentally take sea turtles in the NC inshore gillnet fishery and associated conservation plan
10/29/2012
Georgia Aquarium permit application to import 18 beluga whales for public display
10/26/2012
Initiation of 5-Year Review for the Southern Distinct Population Segment of North American Green Sturgeon
10/10/2012
90-Day Finding on a Petition To List Nassau Grouper under the Endangered Species Act
10/10/2012
NMFS Initiates 5-year review of four sea turtles (Kemp's ridley, olive ridley, leatherback, and hawksbill)
10/01/2012
Northeast Sink Gillnet Fishery Closure to Protect Harbor Porpoise in Gulf of Maine Delayed until February 2013
09/28/2012
90-day Finding on Petitions to List the Northeastern Pacific Ocean Distinct Population Segment of Great White Shark
09/19/2012
Pacific Gas and Electric IHA Application for Marine Geophysical Survey off the Central Coast of California, Nov-Dec 2012
09/18/2012
Comment Period Reopened on Proposed Endangered Status for the Hawaiian Insular False Killer Whale DPS
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
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