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Why should we be excited about the 20th anniversary of Essential Fish Habitat?

We asked, NOAA experts answered. All interviewees have worked for NOAA Fisheries on Essential Fish Habitat provisions, which became part of the nation’s main law for marine fisheries in 1996.

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