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Final Rule to Revise Seabird Avoidance Measures for Alaska Fisheries (12/18/07)

Final Rule to Require Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) in West Coast Fisheries (12/7/07)

NOAA Fisheries Publishes the Final List of Fisheries That Impact Marine Mammals for 2008 (12/17/07)

Final Rule to Implement Gear Modifications to Protect Large Whales (10/5/07)

Final Rule to Reduce Salmon Bycatch in Alaska Groundfish Fisheries (11/20/07)

Proposed Rule to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch in Scallop Fishery (11/20/07)

Proposed Rule to Modify Seabird Avoidance Measures off Alaska (9/19/07)

Final Rule to Improve Monitoring of Sea Turtle Bycatch (8/30/07) 

Final Rule to Protect Right Whales off the Southeast United States (7/5/07)

Proposed 2008 List of Commercial Fisheries with Marine Mammal Interactions (7/5/07)

Final Rule to Amend Drift Gillnet Regulations (6/21/07)

Affirmative Finding under the MMPA Renewed for Ecuador (6/21/07)

Final Rule to Monitor and Prevent Interactions between Coastal Pelagic Fishermen and Southern Sea Otters (6/21/07)

Temporary Rule to Implement Gear Restrictions to Protect Right Whales off Massachusetts (7/20/07)

Affirmative Finding under the MMPA Renewed for Spain and El Salvador (4/07)

NOAA Publishes Final 2007 List of Commercial Fisheries Impacting Marine Mammals

Environmental Assessment of Seabird Avoidance Measures (2007)
NOAA Fisheries has prepared an environmental assessment of seabird avoidance measures in the hook-and-line fisheries off Alaska.

New List of Approved Models for Sea Turtle Release Gear (2/8/07)

Final Rule to Address Bycatch in Commercial Shark Fishery (2/7/07)

Final Rule Requires Faster Action to Protect Sea Turtles off Hawaii (2/26/07)

Gear Restrictions in Place to Protect Right Whales off New England (3/20/07)

NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on Changes to Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) (2/15/07)

Mid-Atlantic Fishing Gear Inspection Program Proposed to Protect Sea Turtles (3/1/07)

Proposed Rule Clarifies Process for Closure of Drift Gillnet Fisheries to Protect Pacific Coast Sea Turtles (1/30/07)

Temporary Gear Restrictions to Protected Right Whales off New England (2/1/07)

Proposed Rule to Protect Turtles in Hawaii Waters from Fishing Impacts (1/16/07)