"The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) held the agency's second National Habitat Assessment Workshop (NHAW) on September 5-7, 2012. The event was organized by the NMFS Office of Science and Technology and the Office of Habitat Conservation. It was hosted by the North west Fisheries Science Center's Montlake Laboratory in Seattle, Washington. The theme of the workshop was: 'Fisheries Science to Support NOAA's Habitat Blueprint.' This workshop was a follow-up to the first NHAW, which was held in St. Petersburg, Florida in May 2010 (Blackhart 2010)"--Introduction.

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