NOAA Fisheries Service OLE maintains working relationships with numerous state, commonwealth & territorial agencies. These may include working with road crews in dealing with salmon stream issues or conducting patrols in a National Marine Sanctuary.
The support the OLE receives from these agencies is vital to accomplishing OLE's mission of protecting our nation's marine recources.
While numerous state, commonwealth & territory law enforcement agencies have a Cooperative Enforcement Agreement (CEA), other states have taken their involvement and cooperation one step further by engaging with an OLE's Joint Enforcement Agreements (JEA).
While CEAs federally-deputized environmental officers to initiated investigations on behalf of the Office for Law Enforcement, JEAs allocate funding from NOAA to these state, commonwealth and territory environmental law enforcement agencies for the specific purpose of assisting the OLE in conducting its mission. Since many of these missions overlap with these agencies as to the protection of natural resources, these JEAs are mutually benefiting.
There are now 26 coastal states, commonwealths and territories which maintain Joint Enforcement Agreements (JEAs) with the OLE.
I n support of these partnerships, OLE agents and officers maintain close working relationships with state environmental enforcement officers. OLE agents and officers collaborate with their state, commonwealth & territory counterparts on investigations, patrols, inspections, warrants and conducting arrests.
These partnerships are mutually supporting as OLE special agents and enforcement officers routinely assist these partner agencies with marine law enforcement training issues relating to their investigations, patrols, inspections and other support.
State partners 
