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Environmental Assessment for Issuing an Exempted Fishing Permit for the Purpose of Testing a Salmon Excluder Device in the Eastern Bering Sea Pollock Fishery

Environmental Assessment analyzes alternatives to issue an exempted fishing permit for testing of a salmon excluder device in the Central Gulf of Alaska Pollock trawl fishery. The experiment would be conducted during the Spring and Fall of 2013 and 2014.
December 21, 2012 - NEPA ,

References Cited - Ringed Seal Endangered Species Act Listings

References for listing the ringed seal under the Endangered Species Act
December 20, 2012 - Other Reports ,

Biological Opinion on the Issuance of Annual Quotas Authorizing the Harvest of Bowhead Whales to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission

Biological Opinion on granting quotas for subsistence hunting bowhead whales 2013 through 2018.
December 17, 2012 - Biological Opinion ,

Arctic Whale Ecology Study October 2012 Quarterly Report

Through an Inter-Agency agreement (IA) between the National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), NMML is conducting a dedicated multi-year study to determine relationships between dominant currents passing from the Bering Sea into and through the Chukchi Sea and prey resources delivered to the Barrow Arch area (an area of high bowhead whale and prey concentrations between Wainwright and Smith Bay), and to provide information about the dynamic nature of those relationships relative to whale distribution and habitat utilization in the eastern Chukchi and extreme western Beaufort Seas. This study will also provide important baseline data on the occurrence, distribution and habitat use of large whales in an area that is subject to rapid change in climate and human industrial development. This quarterly report covers the first period of this study between 25 July and 30 September 2012. The major activity during this period consisted of purchasing equipment, deploying the first set of longterm moorings, and opportunistically tagging a gray whale during the Chukchi Sea Acoustics, Oceanography, and Zooplankton (CHAOZ) cruise on 25 August, 2012. The CHAOZ cruise took place from 8 August through 7 September on the chartered research vessel R/V Aquila. Seventeen scientists, technicians, and observers from eight different laboratories and institutions participated on the CHAOZ cruise.
December 06, 2012 - Other Reports ,

Arctic Whale Ecology Study 2012 Annual Report

Through an Inter-Agency agreement (IA) between the National Marine Mammal Laboratory (NMML) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), NMML is conducting a dedicated multi-year study to determine relationships between dominant currents passing from the Bering Sea into and through the Chukchi Sea and prey resources delivered to the Barrow Arch area (an area of high bowhead whale and prey concentrations between Wainwright and Smith Bay), and to provide information about the dynamic nature of those relationships relative to whale distribution and habitat utilization in the eastern Chukchi and extreme western Beaufort Seas. This study will also provide important baseline data on the occurrence, distribution and habitat use of large whales in an area that is subject to rapid change in climate and human industrial development. This annual report covers the first year of this study between March and December 2012. The major activity during this period consisted of planning for the 2013 vessel survey.
December 06, 2012 - Other Reports ,

Biological Opinion on Knik Arm Crossing, Anchorage, Alaska and its Effects on Cook Inlet Beluga Whales

Biological opinion on the effects of the Knik Arm Crossing Project at Anchorage on Cook Inlet beluga whales.
December 01, 2012 - Biological Opinion ,

Final Environmental Assessment for Issuing an Exempted Fishing Permit for the Purpose of Testing a Salmon Excluder Device in the Central Gulf of Alaska Pollock Fishery

Environmental Assessment analyzes alternatives to issue an exempted fishing permit for testing of a salmon excluder device in the Central Gulf of Alaska pollock trawl fishery.
December 01, 2012 - NEPA ,

Final Regulatory Impact Review/Final Environmental Assessment/Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis to Remove the Groundfish Retention Standard for the Non-AFA Trawl Catcher/Processors, Amendment 80 Vessels, in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands

Groundfish Retention Standard for Non-AFA Trawl Catcher/Processors, Amendment 80 vessels, and Amendment 80 cooperatives participating in the BSAI groundfish fisheries.
December 01, 2012 - NEPA ,

2012 Alaska Sablefish Longline Survey Report

On August 28, 2012, the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) completed the thirty-fourth annual longline survey of Alaska sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) and other groundfish resources of the upper continental slope (Figure 1). This survey was designed to continue the time series (1979-94) of the Gulf of Alaska portion of the Japan-U.S. cooperative longline survey that was discontinued after 1994. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has surveyed the Gulf of Alaska annually since 1987, the eastern Aleutian Islands biennially since 1996, and the eastern Bering Sea biennially since 1997. The Gulf of Alaska and eastern Aleutian Islands were sampled in 2012.
November 20, 2012 - Other Reports ,

Management Report for 82 Corals Status Review under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)

On October 20, 2009, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) to list 83 species of coral as either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In response, NMFS i
November 01, 2012 - ESA Status Review ,