General Documents

• NOAA Habitat Program Strategic plan (2009-2013)
  
  
• National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Report: “An Early Evaluation of NOAA’s Habitat Matrix Program.” Executive Summary. A Report by a Panel of the National Academy of Public Administration for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.  January, 2009.
  
  
• Our Living Oceans: Habitat. NMFS. 2009. Our living oceans: Habitat. Status of the habitat of U.S. living marine resources. Policymakers’ summary, 1st edition. U.S. Dep. Commerce, NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-F/SPO-83, 32 p.
  
  
• Coastal Wetlands Report: Stedman, S. and T.E. Dahl. 2008. Status and trends of wetlands in the coastal watersheds of the Eastern United States 1998 to 2004. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. (32 pages).
  
  
• The Economic and Market Value of Coasts and Estuaries: What's At Stake?Edited by Linwood Pendleton. 2008. (See G:\Hc\Communications\Habitat Website Updates\Internet Site updates_Publications)

Reports to Congress:

• NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office Biennial Report to Congress (2007-2008)
  
  
• The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States: 2007, Lumsden SE, Hourigan TF, Bruckner AW, Dorr G (eds.) 2007. The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States. NOAA Technical Memorandum CRCP-3. Silver Spring MD.

Historic:

• Habitat Strategic Plan 1997
  
  
• Habitat Benefit Assessment and Decision-making, Boyd, J., Sanchirico, J., and Shabman, L. September 2004. “Habitat Benefit Assessment and Decisionmaking: A Report to the National Marine Fisheries Service.” Discussion Paper 04–09 by Resources for the Future. (79 pages).
  
  
• Revealing the value of Habitat in NOAA Fisheries Programs: Habitat Economics Workshop Proceedings (NOAA Office of Habitat Conservation Pub., June 2003)

For more publications on specific areas of interest please visit:

• Wetlands
• Essential fish habitat
• Corals
• Aquaculture
• Fish Passage
• Restoration Publications
• NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO)