All Protected Resources Regulations & Actions
Potential Management Measures to Protect Glacially-associated Harbor Seals
NOAA Fisheries will hold two public workshops to solicit input from stakeholders regarding our advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on potential management measures to protect glacially-associated harbor seal habitats in Alaska.
Published
04/11/2013
Listing 4 Subspecies of Ringed Seals (Arctic, Okhotsk, Baltic and Ladoga) Under the ESA
Final determination to list the Arctic (Phoca hispida hispida), Okhotsk (Phoca hispida ochotensis), and Baltic (Phoca hispida botnica) subspecies of the ringed seal (Phoca hispida) as threatened and the Ladoga (Phoca hispida ladogensis) subspecies of…
- Final Rule: Determination (77 FR 76706, 12/28/2012)
- Notice: Status Review (77 FR 20773, 04/05/2012)
- Proposed Rule: 6-month Extension (76 FR 77466, 12/13/2011)
- Notice: Public Hearings (76 FR 9734, 03/25/2011)
- Extension of public comment period (76 FR 6754, 02/08/2011)
- Proposed Rule: 12-Month Petition Finding, Status Review (75 FR 77476, 12/10/201…
- Notice: Initiation of Status Review (73 FR 16617, 03/28/2008)
Effective
Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement on Issuing Annual Quotas to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission
Notice of Availability of Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Issuing Annual Quotas to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission for a Subsistence Hunt on Bowhead Whales for the Years 2013 through 2017/2018.
Issued
01/18/2013
Listing the Beringia and Okhotsk DPSs of Bearded Seals Under the ESA
Final determination to list the Beringia and Okhotsk distinct populations segments (DPSs) of the Erignathus barbatus nauticus subspecies of the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Published
12/28/2012
Review of the Biological Opinion on the Effects of the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries on Steller Sea Lions and Other Endangered Species
NOAA Fisheries will host a meeting to conduct a panel review by experts contracted through the Center for Independent Experts (CIE) related to NOAA Fisheries' November 2010 Biological Opinion on the effects of the Alaska groundfish fisheries on Steller se
Published
06/11/2012
Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Quota for Bowhead Whales 2008-2012
Notices of aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for bowhead whales that NOAA Fisheries has assigned to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, and of limitations on the use of the quota deriving from regulations of the International Whaling Commission.
Effective
04/10/2012
Critical Habitat for the Cook Inlet Beluga Whale
Final rule to designate critical habitat for the Cook Inlet beluga whale distinct population segment under the Endangered Species Act. Two areas are designated, comprising 7,800 square kilometers (3,013 square miles) of marine habitat.
Effective
05/11/2011
Initiation of a 5-Year Review of the Eastern Distinct Population Segment of Steller Sea Lion
NOAA Fisheries announces a 5-year review of the eastern Distinct Population Segment (DPS) of the Steller Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). A 5-year review is a periodic process conducted to ensure th
Effective
10/15/2010
Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Proposed Seismic Surveys in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas; Notice of Withdrawal
Analysis of the potential significant environmental impacts related to reasonably foreseeable proposed geophysical exploration using seismic surveys in the waters of the Chukchi and Beaufort seas
Effective
10/28/2009
Atlantic Pelagic Longline Take Reduction Plan to Protect Pilot Whales and Risso's Dolphins
NOAA Fisheries announces pelagic longline fishery has a high level of mortality and serious injury across a number of marine mammal stocks, especially pilot whales and Risso's dolphins.
Effective
06/18/2009