This opinion considers the effects of all in-water activities including vessel transit of materials and construction barges, instillation of steel H piles and pipe-combi-wall system, and excavation for the new engineered revetment along the western shoreline. This includes in water screening for the Military Explosives of Concern (MEC) and the effects of the proposed issuance of an IHA.
The Cooperative Tagging Center, a cooperative citizen science program, provides volunteer anglers and fishers with tagging kits for billfish (sailfish and marlin) and tuna species as well as some small coastal pelagic species. This is an update since 2020.
Each year, NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast Region collects, verifies, documents, and responds to reports of large whale entanglements along the U.S. West Coast
Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), NOAA Fisheries is publishing a Final Environmental Assessment that describes and analyzes the potential environmental effects related to the potential funding of the North Central Gulf of America Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) Demonstration, Research, Training, and Outreach pilot project.