On December 26th, NOAA Fisheries completed section 7 consultation under the ESA, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Bonneville Power Administration on the operation and maintenance of the Willamette Valley System.
The United Water Conservation District has prepared the Freeman Diversion Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan as part of its application for incidental take permits under Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the federal Endangered Species Act.
This biological opinion evaluates the effects of the tidegate repair and replacement project on ESA-listed species in Puget Sound, including Puget Sound Chinook salmon, Puget sound steelhead, and Southern Resident killer whales.
Proposed action analyzed in this opinion is NOAA Fisheries approval and implementation of the annual management measures the Council has recommended for ocean salmon fisheries in the year 2020 within the U.S. Pacific Coast Region Exclusive Economic Zone.
This file contains high resolution maps of the U.S. West Coast, illustrating the three categories of changes that Amendment 28 makes, effective January 1, 2020.
The purpose of this report is to identify and analyze the potential economic impacts associated with the designation of critical habitat for the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Distinct Population Segments of yelloweye rockfish, canary rockfish, and bocaccio under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
This report contains NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region’s analysis for designating critical habitat under section 4 of the Endangered Species Act for the Distinct Population Segments of yelloweye rockfish, canary rockfish, and bocaccio of the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin.