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Notice of Intent to prepare a Supplement to the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Gulf Aquaculture FMP
 

This supplemental Notice of Intent is intended to inform the
public of NMFS and the Gulf Council’s decision to consider new information from the Deepwater Horizon MC252 blowout.  This information is needed in order to consider potential changes to the environment linked to the Deepwater Horizon blowout.....read more

NOAA Fisheries and Partners Helping Marine Animals in Distress
Recent Success Stories; Previously Entangled Right Whales Give Birth

While NOAA is well known for weather and oceanographic studies, you may not know that a branch of NOAA is also working diligently to help protect and rescue marine animals in distress.....read more

Biological Opinion on the Renewal of 12 General Permits

The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a biological opinion on
December 20, 2012, for the renewal of 12 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Jacksonville District General Permits...read more

NOAA Fisheries Announces New Regulations for Gulf of Mexico Greater Amberjack
                

NOAA Fisheries approves Amendment 35 to the Fishery Management Plan for Reef Fish Resources in the Gulf of Mexico.....read more

Recent Dolphin Deaths in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Still a Concern and Mystery
NOAA Seeks Public's Help for Information

NOAA is extremely concerned that people are injuring and killing dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico.  In addition to the ongoing Northern Gulf Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event, an increased number of dead stranded bottlenose dolphins were discovered with....read more

NOAA proposes listing 66 reef-building coral species under the Endangered Species Act

In compliance with a federal court ordered deadline, and consistent with existing international protections, NOAA Fisheries announced today that it is proposing Endangered Species Act (ESA) listings for 66 coral species, including 59 in the Pacific and seven in the Caribbean.....read more

New data prompts NOAA Fisheries to withdraw proposed rule to require turtle excluder devices in certain shrimp trawls

Based on new data collected this summer, NOAA is withdrawing a proposed rule to require turtle excluder devices (TEDs) for skimmer trawls, pusher-head trawls, and wing-net trawls in the southeast shrimp fisheries....read more

NOAA Fisheries alerts boaters, right whales are on the move
Endangered species travels south for the winter

NOAA Fisheries is reminding all boaters and fishermen that North Atlantic right whale calving season begins in mid-November and runs through mid-April, which means these large whales are on the move, making their way down the Atlantic coast of the U.S. .....read more  

Humans feeding and interacting with wild dolphins leads to injuries and federal prosecutions in southeast U.S.

Cases of injury and federal prosecution are on the rise as people continue to feed and interact with wild dolphins. Recently, four people and two companies in Florida were charged with violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act after they were caught feeding wild dolphins......read more