EFH for the New England Council
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Site Overview The New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) is one of eight regional fishery management councils created by the 1976 Magnuson Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, renamed Magnuson Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act in 1996, to manage living marine resources within that area. The NEFMC is responsible for the creation of management plans for fishery resources (FMPs) in Federal waters off Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. These FMPs are for Atlantic Salmon, Northeast multispecies, sea scallop, Atlantic herring, and monkfish. The EFH descriptions and identifications for New England FMPs were approved on March 8, 1999 for Atlantic salmon, Northeast multispecies, and sea scallop. The EFH descriptions and identifications for Atlantic herring and monkfish were approved on October 27, 1999, and April 22, 1999, respectively. This website is designed to inform viewers about these New England EFH descriptions and identifications. Contact the NEFMC: Phone: (978) 465-0492 About the NEFMC
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| EFH Descriptions and Identifications |
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EFH Information | |||
| •NMFS Northeast Regional Office Habitat Conservation Divison's EFH Website (an excellent resource for EFH descriptions and consultation information in New England) | ||||
| • EFH Source Documents: Life History and Habitat Characterics (information used to describe and identify EFH) | ||||
| • EFH Textual Descriptions by Species | ||||
| • EFH Life History Parameters | ||||
| •Guide to EFH Geographical Descriptions | ||||
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Important EFH Information |
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New England Council Habitat (includes EFH omnibus amendment that describes and identifies EFH) | |||
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EFH National Information Home | |||
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Life history information used to describe and identify EFH for species by the New England Council is accessible by using the jump bar below. General text and more species specific tabular descriptions of these federally managed species is available upon selecting a species from the Managed Species bar and clicking "Go".
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