All Protected Resources Regulations & Actions
Listing the Cook Inlet Stock of Beluga Whales under the ESA - Not Warranted
NOAA Fisheries received two petitions in March 1999 to list the Cook Inlet, Alaska, stock beluga whales as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The most immediate threat to the stock identified by the petitioners was the high level of harvest that
Effective
06/22/2000
Designation of Critical Habitat for Johnson's Seagrass
Designation of Critical Habitat for Johnson's Seagrass
Effective
05/05/2000
Designation of Critical Habitat for Central California Coast and Southern Oregon/Northern California Coasts Coho Salmon
Designated Critical Habitat; Central California Coast and
Southern Oregon/Northern California Coasts Coho Salmon
Published
05/05/1999
Recovery Plans for Hawksbill Sea Turtle
NOAA Fisheries announces the availability of recovery plans for U.S. Pacific and U.S. Caribbean, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico populations of hawksbill sea turtles.
Published
05/22/1998
Change in Listing Status of Steller Sea Lions, Reclassified as Two Distinct Population Segments - Western DPS Endangered, Eastern DPS Threatened
NOAA Fisheries is now reclassifying Steller sea lions as two distinct population segments under the ESA.
Effective
06/04/1997
Regulations Governing the Approach to North Atlantic Right Whales
Disturbance is identified in the Final Recovery Plan for the Northern Right Whale (Recovery Plan) as among the principal human-induced factors impeding recovery of the northern right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) (NMFS, 1991). NMFS is issuing this interim f
Published
02/13/1997
Delisting the Eastern North Pacific Gray Whale from the ESA
The Service is amending the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants (List) by revising the entry for the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) to remove the eastern North Pacific (California) population from the List while retaining the western
Published
06/16/1994
Designation of Critical Habitat for Steller Sea Lions
NOAA Fisheries is designating critical habitat for the Steller (northern) sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) in certain areas and waters of Alaska, Oregon and California.
Effective
09/27/1993
Designation of Critical Habitat for Sacramento River Winter-Run Chinook Salmon
Designation of Critical Habitat for Sacramento River Winter-Run Chinook Salmon
Effective
07/16/1993
Listing of the Saimaa Seal Subspecies of the Ringed Seal Under the ESA
NOAA Fisheries is listing the Saimaa seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). NOAA Fisheries used the best available scientific and commercial information to make this determination. The Saimaa seal
Effective
06/07/1993