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Global and regional sea level rise scenarios for the United States

Personal Author:

Sweet, William (William VanderVeer); Kopp, Robert, E.; Weaver, Christopher P.; Obeysekera, J. T. B.; Horton, Radley M.; Thieler, E. Robert (Edward Robert), 1965-; Zervas, Chris Eugene, 1957-;

Corporate Author:

Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (U.S.)

Published:

2017

Series:

NOAA technical report NOS CO-OPS ; 83

Description:

"The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force, jointly convened by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the National Ocean Council (NOC), began its work in August 2015. The Task Force has focu...

File Type:

[PDF - 6.99 MB]

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08/28/2018
Environmental Assessment For Issuing an Exempted Fishing Permit for the Purpose of Testing a Salmon Excluder Device in the Eastern Bering Sea Pollock Fishery

Personal Author:

Pennoyer, Steven; Grady, Mary;

Published:

2011

Description:

This Environmental Assessment analyzes alternatives on issuance of an exempted fishing permit for continued testing of a salmon excluder device in the Bering Sea pollock trawl fishery. The experiment would be conducted from fall 2011 through fall 201...

File Type:

[PDF - 1.26 MB]

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08/09/2018
Ocean Today. Mapping goes micro

Personal Author:

Mann, Kurt; Shortridge, Tom; Forbes, Megan;

Corporate Author:

United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration., Office of Marine and Aviation Operations,; United States, Office of Coast Survey,; Thomas Jefferson (Ship); United States, National Ocean Service,; Smithsonian Institution;

Published:

2016

Description:

The video is part of the Ocean Today educational video collection (sub-collection: Research). It has open captions and can be viewed in regular (640 x 36) or high resolution (1280 x 720). Video's transcript: "NARRATOR Nearly every inch of the earth's...

File Type:

[MP4 - 21.37 MB]

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10/16/2017
Environmental assessment/regulatory impact review/ final regulatory flexibility analysis for proposed alternatives to limit chinook salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea trawl fisheries : Amendment 21b to the fishery management plan for the groundfish fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands area

Published:

1995

Description:

The groundfish fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) [between 3 and 200 miles offshore] off Alaska are managed under the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA FMP) and the Fishery Management Plan for t...

File Type:

[PDF - 4.32 MB]

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08/21/2018
Patterns and projections of high tide flooding along the U.S. coastline using a common impact threshold

Personal Author:

Sweet, William (William VanderVeer); Dusek, Greg (Gregory P.); Obeysekera, J. T. B.; Marra, John J.;

Corporate Author:

Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (U.S.)

Published:

2018

Series:

NOAA technical report NOS CO-OPS ; 086

Description:

"The intent of this report is not to supplant knowledge about local flood risk. Rather, the intention is to provide an objective and nationally consistent set of impact thresholds for minor/moderate/major coastal flooding. Such definitions are curren...

File Type:

[PDF - 5.71 MB]

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05/02/2018
Final environmental assessment/regulatory impact review for amendment 2la : Revised to the fishery management plan for the groundfish fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands

Published:

1994

Description:

In response to habitat concerns for blue king and korean hair crab,. marine mammals, and seabirds, the Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Association initiated a proposal in 1989 to establish areas closed to trawling in the Pribilof Islands area. The int...

File Type:

[PDF - 6.29 MB]

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08/21/2018
Using Age Structure to Detect Impacts on Threatened Populations: a Case Study with Steller Sea Lions

Published:

2003

Description:

A delayed response to change is often a characteristic of long-lived species and presents a major challenge to monitoring their status. However, rapid shifts in age structure can occur even while population size remains relatively static. We used tim...

File Type:

[PDF - 276.85 KB]

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08/21/2018
Enviornmental Assestment/Regulatory Impact Review/ Final Regulatory Flexability Analysis for Halibut Bycatch Limits for the Trawl and Non-Trawl Fisheries Amendment 21 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery for the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands

Personal Author:

Mecum, Robert D.

Published:

1992

Description:

In January 2004, the U.S. Congress amended Section 313(j) of Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to mandate the Secretary of Commerce implement the Crab Rationalization Program (Program) for the Bering Sea and . Aleutian Islands ...

File Type:

[PDF - 5.75 MB]

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08/09/2018
Revised Final Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives for the Pollock Fisheries in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska with Supporting Documentation

Published:

1999

Description:

On December 3, 1998, the Office of Protected Resources of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a Biological Opinion on three federal actions proposed for 1999 to 2002. The actions were authorization of the Atka mackerel fishery of Beri...

File Type:

[PDF - 658.82 KB]

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08/09/2018
Size compositions and sex ratios of oceanic whitetip sharks and giant manta rays for longline fisheries in the Pacific Islands region

Personal Author:

Kapur, Maia; Yau, Annie;

Published:

2018

Series:

PIFSC data report ; DR-18-012

Description:

This document presents relevant life history, assessment, and summary plots of data available from Hawaii longline fishery observer data and the literature for oceanic whitetip shark (Carcharhinus longimanus) and giant manta ray (Manta birostris) cat...

File Type:

[PDF - 777.58 KB]

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08/13/2018
Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program. Data report : ecological monitoring 2017 : reef fishes and benthic habitats of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Mariana Archipelago

Personal Author:

McCoy, Kaylyn; Heenan, Adel; Asher, Jacob Marcus; Ayotte, Paula; Gorospe, Kelvin; Gray, Andrew Elisha; Lino, Kevin; Zamzow, Jill P.; Williams, Ivor D. (Ivor Douglas);

Corporate Author:

Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (U.S.); Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program;

Published:

2018

Series:

PIFSC data report ; DR-18-008

Description:

"This report summarizes the reef fish survey data and a subset of the benthic data collected by the ESD for Pacific RAMP and for compatible PMNM, NMFS and CRCP survey missions in 2017. During 2017, surveys were conducted in the following regions: Nor...

File Type:

[PDF - 7.46 MB]

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05/15/2018
Amendment Number 1 to the Fishery Management Plan for Corals and Reef Associated Plants and Intervertebrates of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands for Establishing a Marine Conservation District Including Regulatory Impact Review and Initial Regualtory Flexability Anaylsis and a Final Supplemental Enviornmental Impact Statement

Published:

1999

Description:

The Fishery Management Plan for Corals and Reef Associated Plants and Invertebrates of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (FMP) became effective in December, 1995, except for section 670.23(b) of the regulation which became effective in March, 1...

File Type:

[PDF - 343.71 KB]

Added:

08/20/2018
Excutive Summary: FMP for the Queen Conch Resources of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Published:

1996

Description:

Queen conch (Strombus gigas) resources occur throughout the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean northward to Bermuda, but populations in certain areas are decidedly overfished and in need of management. Conch are edible marine gastropods that mov...

File Type:

[PDF - 280.95 KB]

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08/20/2018
Final Amendment 4 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Spiny Lobster Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and Amendment 8 to the Joint Spiny Lobster Fishery Management Plan of the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic (Including the Final Environmental Impact Statement, Regulatory Impact Review, and Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis)

Published:

2008

Description:

The United States is a major importer of spiny lobster, importing over 88,000 tons (over 194 million lbs) over the past 10 years, worth an estimated $2.27 billion dollars. The United States imports over 90% of the spiny lobster harvested in South and...

File Type:

[PDF - 1.48 MB]

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08/20/2018
Amendment Number 1 to the Enviornmental Impact Statement, Fishery Managment Plan and Regulatory Impact Review for the Spiny Lobster Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands

Published:

1990

Description:

The Environmental Impact statement, Fishery Management Plan and Regulatory Impact Review for the Spiny Lobster Fishery of Puerto Rico and the u.s. Virgin Islands was implemented on January 1, 1985 (50 CFR Part 645). This amendment adds a scientifical...

File Type:

[PDF - 1.13 MB]

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08/20/2018
Regulatory Amendment to the Shallow Water Reef Fish Fishery Management Plan : Includes Enviornmental Assestment and Regulatory Impact Review

Published:

1991

Description:

The Shallow-Water Reef Fishery of Puerto Rico and The U.S. Virgin Islands FMP was implemented on September 22, 1985. The implementing regulations, designed to stop the declining trend of stocks, included: (1) a minimum mesh size of 11/4 inches for fi...

File Type:

[PDF - 1.16 MB]

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08/20/2018
Amendment 2 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shallow-Water Reef Fish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

Published:

1993

Description:

The Fishery Management Plan for the Shallow-Water Reef Fish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (FMP), prepared by the Caribbean Fishery Management Council (Council) under the authority of the Magnuson Act, became effective in Septembe...

File Type:

[PDF - 23.73 MB]

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08/20/2018
Amedment Number 1 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Shallow-Water Reeffish Fishery, Preliminary Enviornmental Assestment and Regulatory Imapct Review

Published:

1990

Description:

The Fishery Management Plan for the Shallow-Water Reeffish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (FMP became effective Sept.ember 22, 1985. The FMP was prepared by the Caribbean Fishery Management Council to establlsh a management system...

File Type:

[PDF - 4.45 MB]

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08/20/2018
Regulatory Amendment to the Fishery Management Plan for the Reef Fish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands Concerning Red Hind Spawning Aggregation Closures Including a Regulatory Impact Review and an Enviornmental Assestment

Published:

1996

Description:

The Fishery Management Plan for the Shallow-water Reeffish Fishery of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands (FMP) became effective September 22, 1985. The FMP (and each of the amendments) was prepared, under the authority of the Magnuson Act, by t...

File Type:

[PDF - 60.00 KB]

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08/20/2018
Environmental Impact Statement/Fishery Management Plan and Regulatory Impact Review for the Spiny Lobster fishery of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

Published:

1981

Description:

The preperation and implementation of the Spiny Lobster Fishery Management Plan is mandated under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The proposed action reccomends a management regime for controlling the harvest level or spiny lobs...

File Type:

[PDF - 3.61 MB]

Added:

08/20/2018