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- Scientific Research Permit Applications Currently Open for Comment, ongoing
Comment on Our Actions
- 08/29/2013
- 90-day finding on petition to delist the North Pacific population of humpback whales; status review initiated and request for scientific and commercial information on the North Pacific humpback whale population through 10/28/2013
- 08/06/2013
- Proposed designation of critical habitat for yelloweye rockfish, canary rockfish, and bocaccio of the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin through 11/04/2013
- More Actions Currently Open for Comment
Welcome to the Office of Protected Resources
The Office of Protected Resources (OPR) is a headquarters program office of NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries Service, or NMFS), under the U.S. Department of Commerce, with responsibility for protecting marine mammals and endangered/threatened marine life.
NOAA's Office of Protected Resources works to conserve, protect, and recover species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) in conjunction with our Regional Offices, Science Centers, and various partners.
Recent News and Hot Topics
- 09/30/2013
- Comment Period Extended on Proposed Rule To Designate Critical Habitat for Loggerhead Sea Turtles in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and North Pacific Ocean
- 09/29/2013
- Updated data on dolphin/ whale (Cetacean) Unusual Mortality Event in Northern Gulf of Mexico
- 09/23/2013
- Updated Data on Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual Mortality Event in the Mid-Atlantic
- 09/19/2013
- Final listing decision on 66 corals and the reclassification of 2 Acropora corals expected June 2014; listing decision extended by 6 months in order to solicit additional data
- 09/10/2013
- NMFS issues ESA permit to NC Division of Marine Fisheries to incidentally take sea turtles in the NC inshore gillnet fishery
- 09/04/2013
- NMFS issues permit for incidental take of individuals from the CA/OR/WA stocks of fin, humpback, and sperm whales in CA thresher shark/ swordfish drift gillnet fishery (>14 inch mesh) and WA/OR/CA sablefish pot fishery
- 09/03/2013
- FY13 Grants Awarded for John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program
- 08/29/2013
- 90-day finding on petition to delist the North Pacific population of humpback whales; status review initiated and request for scientific and commercial information on the North Pacific humpback whale population through 10/28/2013
- 08/29/2013
- NOAA publishes 2013 List of Fisheries classifying U.S. commercial fisheries into one of three Categories according to the level of incidental mortality or serious injury of marine mammals
- 08/29/2013
- NOAA and USFWS propose to amend regulations governing Incidental Take Statements (ITS) for endangered species
- 08/25/2013
- Updated data on increase in sea turtle strandings in the Gulf of Mexico
- 08/15/2013
- Negative 90-day finding on a petition to list the whale shark under the Endangered Species Act
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