Announcement of a Recovery Planning Workshop for the 15 ESA-Listed Indo-Pacific Corals
We are convening a workshop to solicit facts and information from stakeholders and experts to inform recovery planning for 15 species of threatened Indo-Pacific reef corals listed under the Endangered Species Act. We will not be asking for a consensus…
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Initiation of a 5-Year Review of Indo-Pacific Reef-building Corals
We, NMFS, announce the initiation of a 5-year review for 15 Indo-Pacific reef-building corals (Acropora globiceps, Acropora jacquelineae, Acropora lokani, Acropora pharaonis, Acropora retusa, Acropora rudis, Acropora speciosa, Acropora tenella,…
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Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for the Threatened Indo-Pacific Corals
We, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), propose to designate critical habitat for the seven threatened corals in U.S. waters in the Indo-Pacific (Acropora globiceps, Acropora jacquelineae, Acropora retusa, Acropora speciosa, Euphyllia…
- Third extension of comment period notice (86 FR 16325, 03/29/2021)
- Second extension of comment period notice (86 FR 8749, 02/09/2021)
- Notice of public hearings (85 FR 83899, 12/23/2020)
- Proposed Rule (85 FR 76262, 11/27/2020)
- January 2021 Public Hearing Presentation Summary (PDF, 31 pages)
- General Information on Proposed Coral Critical Habitat in the U.S. Pacific Isla…
- Maps of all Critical Habitat Units from the Proposed Rule (PDF, 11 pages)
- Maps of Proposed Critical Habitat on Tutuila, Ofu, Olosega, Guam, Saipan, Tinia…
- Draft ESA Critical Habitat Information Report (PDF, 165)
- Draft Economic Impact Report (PDF, 109 pages)
- Initial Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis (PDF, 15 pages)
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Listing of 20 Reef-Building Coral Species Under the ESA
We, NOAA Fisheries, are publishing this final rule to implement our final determination to list the following 20 species as threatened: five in the Caribbean (Dendrogyra cylindrus, Orbicella annularis, Orbicella faveolata, Orbicella franksi, and…
- Final Rule (79 FR 53852, September 10, 2014)
- Proposed Rule (77 FR 73219, December 7, 2012)
- 90-day Finding (75 FR 6616, February 10, 2010)
- Status Review Report of 82 candidate coral species (2011)
- Management Report for 82 corals (2012)
- Petition (2009)
- Supplemental Information Report (2012)
- Literature Cited in the Final Rule
- Final Management Report
- U.S. Distributions of the 15 ESA-listed Indo-Pacific Coral Species
- Field Identification Guide to the Threatened Corals of the U.S. Pacific Islands
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