Archived Hot Topics
Archived Hot Topics
- 05/02/2013
- EPA posts to their docket NOAA Fisheries' draft Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation Conference and Biological Opinion on the registration of three insecticides
- 04/30/2013
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National Academy of Sciences publishes recommendations on assessing risk of pesticides to threatened and endangered species
- 04/28/2013
- Updated data on increase in sea turtle strandings in the Gulf of Mexico
- 04/28/2013
- Updated data on dolphin/ whale (Cetacean) Unusual Mortality Event in Northern Gulf of Mexico
- 04/25/2013
- 90-day finding on great hammerhead petitions; status review initiated and request for scientific and commercial information on great hammerhead sharks through 06/25/2013
- 04/25/2013
- 90-day finding on petition to include Lolita in ESA listing of Southern Resident Killer Whales; request for information about Lolita's genetic heritage and status through 06/28/2013
- 04/22/2013
- Proposed List of Fisheries for 2013 reflects new information on interactions between commercial fisheries and marine mammals
- 04/14/2013
- 2013 California Sea Lion Unusual Mortality Event in California Data Updated
- 04/05/2013
- NMFS proposes to revise regulations to enhance the requirements for documentation to support labels on tuna products that represent the product as dolphin-safe
- 04/05/2013
- NOAA Fisheries proposes to list scalloped hammerhead sharks under the ESA; open for comment through 06/04/2013
- 03/29/2013
- Final 2012 Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports
- 03/29/2013
- Positive 90-day Finding on a Petition to List Sperm Whales in the Gulf of Mexico as a Distinct Population Segment and to Designate Critical Habitat
- 03/12/2013
- NMFS is considering whether to propose regulations to protect glacially-associated harbor seal habitats in Alaska, requests information and comments through 05/13/2013
- 02/28/2013
- 90-day finding on humphead wrasse petition; status review initiated and comments requested
- 02/25/2013
- Public hearing to be held in Silver Spring, MD, on March 12, 2013 on the proposed ESA-listing determinations of 66 reef-building coral species and the proposed reclassifications of elkhorn and staghorn corals; Comment period extended until April 6, 2013
- 02/14/2013
- Negative 90-Day Finding on a Petition to List 44 Species of Corals off Alaska as Threatened or Endangered
- 01/30/2013
- Negative 90-Day Finding on Petitions To List White Marlin as Threatened or Endangered
- 01/22/2013
- Draft Recovery Plan for North Pacific Right Whale
- 01/16/2013
- Proposed Designation of a Nonessential Experimental Population of Central Valley Spring-Run Chinook Salmon Below Friant Dam in the San Joaquin River, CA
- 01/16/2013
- Draft 2012 Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports: 10 stocks in the Atlantic have been revised; open for comment through 04/16/2013
- 01/14/2013
- NMFS proposes critical habitat for Lower Columbia River Coho Salmon and Puget Sound Steelhead trout
- 12/21/2012
- Populations of ringed seals and bearded seals are now listed under the Endangered Species Act
- 12/10/2012
- Recent Dolphin Deaths in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Still a Concern and Mystery
- 11/30/2012
- NOAA Proposes Listing 66 Reef-building Coral Species under the Endangered Species Act
- 11/29/2012
- NMFS publishes False Killer Whale Take Reduction Plan to reduce bycatch in Hawaii's longline fisheries
- 11/28/2012
- NMFS lists the Main Hawaiian Islands insular false killer whale distinct population segment (DPS) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
- 11/27/2012
- Positive 90-Day Finding on a Petition To Delist the Southern Resident Killer Whale
- 11/08/2012
- Proposed Revisions to the Regulations for Impact Analyses of Critical Habitat, Comment Period Reopened through 02/06/2013
- 11/07/2012
- Negative 12-month finding on a petition to list the Bumphead Parrotfish under the Endangered Species Act, species no longer a candidate for listing
- 11/01/2012
- NMFS seeks comments on a revised application to incidentally take sea turtles in the NC inshore gillnet fishery and associated conservation plan
