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Shellfish Best Management Practices, Standards, and Certification Programs
A collection of industry driven and government mandated best management practices for shellfish aquaculture.
Practicing Sustainable Recreational Fishing on the West Coast
Sustainable fishing practices ensure healthy and resilient recreational fisheries for years to come.
Best Management Practices, Standards, and Farming Manuals
This section provides links to documents containing both industry-driven and government mandated Best Management Practices, including guides for starting a farm. This list provides examples of some prominent BMP documents, but is by no means an exhaustive
U.S. Fisheries Management: Sustainable Fisheries, Sustainable Seafood
U.S. fisheries are among the world’s most sustainable. They are a global model of success in responsible management, and U.S. success directly influences international standards and practices.
Large Whale Entanglement Response
NOAA Fisheries authorizes emergency response to large whales with life-threatening entanglements.
Disaster Response Services
The Southeast Regional Office offers services in the Gulf of America*, South Atlantic, and Caribbean to help protect and recover marine resources, their habitats, and affected fishing communities from the impacts of disaster events and response activities
Return ‘Em Right Best Release Practices Manual Available for Recreational Anglers
Anglers, captains, fisheries managers, and scientists collaborated with the Return ‘Em Right team to create guidance on best release practices for reef fish in the Southeast United States.
Alaska Oil Spill Response Guidance
Alaska Region oil spill response plans specific to marine mammals.
Whale Entanglement Response Training – On the Cutting Edge
NOAA joined with local stranding and entanglement response network volunteers along the West Coast to provide training in 2016.
Cook Inlet & Kodiak Marine Mammal Disaster Response Guidelines and Appendices
Cook Inlet and Kodiak Marine Mammal Disaster Response Guidelines (CIKMMDRG) address disaster response activities specific to cetaceans and pinnipeds, such as oil spills, in the Cook Inlet and Kodiak regions of Alaska.
National Marine Mammal Stranding Response Network
The U.S. Marine Mammal Stranding Response Network responds to live stranded, sick, injured, out of habitat, or entangled marine mammals, and investigates dead stranded marine mammals.
NOAA takes strong stand against IUU fishing and harmful fishing practices
New report identifies 31 nations and entities engaged in IUU fishing and bycatch
Developing Marine Mammal Response Capacity at Home and Abroad
Experienced stranding responders around the world have collaborated to launch the Global Marine Animal Stranding Toolkit at GMAST.org to help expand marine mammal stranding response capabilities.
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program
The National Marine Fisheries Service, Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program has prepared a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.
NOAA Fisheries Announces New Initiative to End Illegal Labor Practices in the Seafood Industry
NOAA Fisheries will pursue public-private partnerships through CALM-CS to accelerate efforts toward ending forced labor and improving working conditions across the seafood sector.
