This Final Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment (Final SPEA) addresses fisheries and ecosystem research activities proposed by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) for the period 2020-2025). The SWFSC previously analyzed the potential environmental effects of fisheries and ecosystem research for the period 2015-2020 and, in June 2015, published a Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Fisheries Research Conducted and Funded by the SWFSC (NMFS 2015a). A Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was signed on August 31, 2015. The 2015 PEA provides baseline descriptions of the physical, biological and human environments and analyses of the potential consequences of alternative approaches to fisheries and ecosystem research.

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