Through a Fish's Eye: The Status of Fish Habitats in the United States 2010
Available Now! The National Fish Habitat Board has released a first of its kind report summarizing the results of a detailed national assessment of fish habitat across the entire United States. The report focuses on the freshwater and estuarine fish habitats of the 50 states. Please Click the report cover to the right to view the full report (PDF), or CLICK HERE. Access the NFHAP interactive map on the Science and Data page, where you can visualize the assessment results in detail and download data files and map services.
Partnership!
This is what the National Fish Habitat Action Plan is all about — locally-driven efforts that build private and public partnerships to improve fish habitat.
Fish Habitat Action Plan partnerships are self-identified, self-organized, and self-directed communities of interest formed around geographic areas, keystone species, or system types.
These 10 Waters to Watch bring together community groups, non-profit organizations, local watershed groups, Native American tribes and state and federal agencies to plant stream-side vegetation, remove structures blocking fish from accessing habitat and protect rivers from the effects of agriculture runoff. The idea is to provide clean water and robust, healthy habitats for the many fish and wildlife species and people who call these areas home.
Lieberman Introduces Legislation to Improve Waterways, Protect Fish Habitats
(WASHINGTON, DC) –Today, Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) announced the introduction of the National Fish Habitat Conservation Act. This legislation, which would significantly advance ongoing efforts to restore and protect fish habitats, improves the health of America’s waterways and ensures that the United States has robust fish populations well into the future. The legislation would establish the most comprehensive effort ever attempted to treat the causes of fish habitat decline.
The 2011 National Fish Habitat Action Plan has gained some recognition through media outlets, below is a
list of some of the publications that have covered the Action Plan and
the 10 "Waters to Watch" initiative, 2011 National Casting Call event and the release of "Through A Fish's Eye: The Status of Fish Habitats in the United States 2010 Report.
(Washington, DC) – The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (www.fishhabitat.org) has unveiled the 2011 10 “Waters to Watch” list, a collection of rivers, streams, lakes and estuaries that will benefit from strategic conservation efforts to protect, restore or enhance their current condition over the next year.
These waters represent a snapshot of this year’s voluntary habitat conservation efforts in progress. These and other locally driven conservation projects are prioritized and implemented by regional Fish Habitat Partnerships that have formalized under the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. The objective of the Action Plan is to conserve priority freshwater, estuarine and marine habitats essential to the many fish and wildlife species that depend on them.
July National Fish Habitat Board Meeting Announcement
The July 2011 NFHAP Board meeting will take place in Madison, Wisconsin July 26 and 27. The Board Meeting will be held at the Madison Concourse Hotel beginning at 9:00 AM Tuesday July 26th and ending at 4:00 PM on July 27th.
The National Fish Habitat Action Plan (the Action Plan), developed in 2006, brings federal, state, tribal, non-profit and local partners together in a national partnership to improve fish habitats across the United States in a collaborative, science-based, and non-regulatory manner. The national partnership has also recognized seventeen regionally-based Fish Habitat Partnerships (FHPs) that are implementing fish habitat conservation and protection projects in communities around the country.
Status of Fish Habitats Report Gives “Fish Eye View” of National Waters
The National Fish Habitat Board (www.fishhabitat.org) today released a first-of-its-kind status of fish habitats in the United States report as envisioned in the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, an effort to protect, restore and enhance our nation’s aquatic habitats. The report titledTHROUGH A FISH’S EYE: The Status of Fish Habitats In The United States 2010 summarizes the results of an unprecedented, nationwide assessment of the human effects on fish habitat in the rivers and estuaries of the United States.
