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Marine Protected Resources on the U.S. West Coast: Current Management and Opportunities for Applying Economic Analysis
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2018
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Description:The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), also called NOAA Fisheries, manages both the listing and recovery of marine species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the protection of marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). This report focuses on NOAA’s West Coast Region, which includes marine resources in California, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The region is host to 46 ESA-listed species, or distinct population segments (DPSs),1 1 Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the listing unit for invertebrates is the taxonomic species; however, the listing unit for vertebrates includes species, subspecies, or distinct population segment. For Pacific salmon, the DPS equivalent is the evolutionarily significant unit, as described by Waples (1991). and over 30 species of marine mammals protected by the MMPA. Salmon and steelhead (salmonids, Oncorhynchus spp.) are at the forefront of marine protected resources (MPR) management in the West Coast Region, where 28 evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) of ESA-listed salmonids from six species are listed under the ESA. Other ESA-listed species in the region include killer whales (Orcinus orca), eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus), bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis), and green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris).
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