Each year, NOAA Fisheries’ West Coast Region collects, verifies, documents, and responds to reports of large whale entanglements along the U.S. West Coast
This opinion considers the effects of in-water pile driving of steel piles and the placement of fill in marine waters, construction vessel traffic, and support operations on endangered and threatened marine mammals in Port Frederick Inlet on Chichagof Island in Hoonah, Alaska. NMFS Consultation Number: AKRO-2024-01073
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for Biological Opinion National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region, Sustainable Fisheries Division Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fisheries of the Gulf of Alaska
NMFS Consultation Number: AKRO-2024-01759
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources, Permits and Conservation Division, USCG Dock Construction, Seward and Sitka, Alaska
NMFS Consultation Number: AKRO-2024-00243
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for United States Army Corps of Engineers Sitka CBS GPIP Vessel Haulout Project, Sitka, Alaska
NMFS Consultation Number: AKRO-2024-00251
Final programmatic environmental impact statement evaluating effects of funding programs to increase salmon as prey for southern resident killer whales
Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7(a)(2) Biological Opinion for United States Army Corps of Engineers Furie Cook Inlet Towing and Drilling, Cook Inlet, Alaska
NMFS Consultation Number: AKRO-2023-03569