NOAA Tech Memo

NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-209

Impacts to Marine Fisheries Habitat from Nonfishing Activities in the Northeastern United States
Michael R Johnson¹, Christopher Boelke¹, Louis A Chiarella¹, Peter D Colosi¹, Karen Greene², Kimberly Lellis-Dibble³, Heather Ludemann⁴, Michael Ludwig⁵, Sean McDermott¹, Jill Ortiz¹, Diane Rusanowsky⁶, Marcy Scott¹, and Jeff Smith⁷
¹NOAA Fisheries Service (NOAA), Northeast Regional Office, 55 Great Republic Dr., Gloucester, MA 01930
²NOAA, James J. Howard Marine Science Lab, 74 Magruder Rd., Highlands, NJ 07732
³Current Address: Univ. of Rhode Island, Dept. of Natural Resources Science, Coastal Institute in Kingston,
1 Greenhouse Rd., Kingston, RI 02881
⁴Current Address: 646 Shotwell St., San Francisco, CA 94110
⁵Current Address: Ocean and Coastal Consultants, 35 Corporate Dr., Suite 1200 Trumbull, CT 06611
⁶NOAA, Milford Lab, 212 Rogers Ave., Milford, CT 06460
⁷NOAA, Office of Habitat Conservation, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Web version posted October 29,2008
Citation: Johnson MR, Boelke C, Chiarella LA, Colosi PD, Greene K, Lellis K, Ludemann H, Ludwig M, McDermott S, Ortiz J, Rusanowsky D, Scott M, Smith J. 2008. Impacts to marine fisheries habitat from nonfishing activities in the Northeastern United States

Information Quality Act Compliance: In accordance with section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the Northeast Fisheries Science Center completed both technical and policy reviews for this report. These predissemination reviews are on file at the NEFSC Editorial Office.

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Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction

Chapter One: Technical Workshop on Impacts to Coastal Fisheries Habitat from Nonfishing Activities

Chapter Two: Coastal Development

Chapter Three: Energy-related Activities

Chapter Four: Alteraton of Freshwater Systems

Chapter Five: Marine Transportation

Chapter Six: Offshore Dredging and Disposal Activities

Chapter Seven: Chemical Effects—Water Discharge Facilities

Chapter Eight: Physical Effects—Water Intake and Discharge Facilities

Chapter Nine: Agricultures and Silviculture

Chapter Ten: Introduced/Nuisance Species and Aquaculture

Chapter Eleven: Global Effects and Other Impacts

Chapter Twelve: Compensatory Mitigation

Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix: Attendees of Technical Workshop on Impacts to Coastal Fishery Habitat from Nonfishing Activities