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Johnson's Seagrass may have the most limited distribution of any seagrass on earth, known to only occur in lagoons along 200 km of the southeast coast of Florida. It is the first marine plant species to be listed under the ESA. Recovery objectives, based

Published Date: 2002

NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-23 Workshop Date: April 9-12, 2001

NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-22

Published Date: 2002

The green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, is the most widely distributed member of the sturgeon family Acipenseridae. Like all sturgeons, green sturgeon are anadromous, but are also the most marine oriented of the sturgeons.

Biological opinion based on review of the Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) proposed operation of the Klamath Project, and the project’s effects on the southern Oregon/northern California (SONC) coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in accordance with section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).

This document provides an analysis of several issues pertaining to the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program for fixed gear Pacific halibut and sablefish fisheries and the Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program for fisheries in and off of Alaska.

Beluga whales, Delphinapterus leucas, live year-round in arctic and subarctic seas of the Northern Hemisphere (Hazard 1988). In Alaska waters, belugas spend summer in different regions of Alaska (Frost and Lowry 1990) to the extent that genetic differentiation has occurred within the species (O’Corry-Crow et al. 1997). These summering populations are found in Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay, the eastern Bering Sea, the eastern Chukchi Sea, and the eastern Beaufort Sea (Fig. 1). For Cook Inlet, both geographic and genetic isolation from the other beluga populations in Alaska has resulted in evident genetic drift (O’Corry-Crowe et al. 1997, 2010). While some of these Alaska populations are migratory, covering 1,000s of kilometers between summering and wintering regions, most Cook Inlet belugas remain year-round within the boundaries of the inlet.