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2022 Annual Report of a Comprehensive Assessment of Marine Mammal, Marine Turtle, and Seabird Abundance and Spatial Distribution in U.S. Waters of the Western North Atlantic Ocean : AMAPPS III
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2023
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Alternative Title:AMAPPS 2022 Annual Report
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Description:The Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (AMAPPS) is a comprehensive multi-agency research program in the U.S. Atlantic Ocean, from Maine to the Florida Keys. Its aims are to assess the abundance, distribution, ecology, and behavior of marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds throughout the U.S. Atlantic and to place them in an ecosystem context. This information provides spatially explicit information in a format useful to marine resource managers. This information will also provide enhanced data to managers and other users by addressing data gaps that are needed to support conservation initiatives mandated under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). To conduct this work National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has inter-agency agreements with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the U.S. Navy. Scientists from NMFS’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) and Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) developed the products resulting from the interagency agreements. Because of the broad nature and importance of the AMAPPS work, this program has evolved beyond the above agencies into a larger collaborative program that involves researchers from a variety of domestic and international organizations. These collaborative efforts have the benefit of increasing the amount of funds and personnel for integrated field and analytical work. This report focuses on documenting the fieldwork conducted and briefly describing the progress of analyses performed during 2022.
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