NOAA Fisheries periodically reviews species to ensure that they are listed under the Endangered Species Act appropriately. Because the ESA requires these reviews at least once every 5 years, they are referred to as 5-year reviews.
A 2006 status review report conducted on a petitions seeking to list Pacific herring that spawn at Cherry Point, Washington (a subset of the Georgia Basin Pacific herring DPS), as a threatened or endangered “species” under the ESA